September 5, 2019

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Researchers Develop an Algorithm that Can Improve the Efficiency of Solar Panelsedit

Mercom India

The study titled Nonlinear Optimal Feedback Control and Stability Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic Systems, by Waterloos Faculty of Mathematics researchers, Farsi and Liu was published in the journal IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions of Control Systems Technology.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Why Artificial Intelligence Will Save Cybersecurityedit

CIOL

Artificial intelligence shouldnt be feared, but revered in the cybersecurity community. In fact, many tech luminaries and billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, James Richman, Larry Page, and Satya Nadella, have been increasing their involvement and investments in the AI technology, according to Pure AIs: 7 Innovators Investing Heavily in Artificial Intelligence.

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India To Implement Faceless Tax Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence By Octedit

Analytics India Mag

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman this week announced that India will be using artificial intelligence and machine learning in the tax assessment process system from October 2019. In doing, so, India will become one of the first countries to adopt emerging tech on such a large scale in public tax assessment.

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In a World of Cyber Threats, the Push For Cyber Peace is Growingedit

CNBC TV18

At the same time, dozens of countries and hundreds of firms and nonprofits are fed up with all this digital violence, and are working toward greater cybersecurity for all and even what might be called cyber peace.

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Diagnosis for a healthy AI systemedit

Business Standard

As acronyms go, some are rarely seen together. A recent development though has led to mentioning AI and TB in the same sentence. The ministry of health of India has decided to explore the possibilities of using artificial intelligence to combat tuberculosis in the country.

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Blockchain is a game changer for decentralised infraedit

FNB News

Blockchain is not the only technology changing the way things are done when it comes to food or agricultural supply chain. Combining blockchain with other technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) makes the initiative impactful.

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Data, not AI or 5G is the secret to IoT successedit

Nyoooz

If it seems impossible to monetize your IoT business operations without advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G connectivity, think again. There are many learned articles highlighting IoT use cases for business, and an awful lot of them extol the virtues of AI and 5G in this field.

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Analysis: How Digital Transformation Can Cure The Current Downfall In India Economy?edit

Analytics Insight

A digital backbone is crucial to enable such productivity either by reaching the right beneficiary, optimizing the paperless process through automation or digitized payments. Currently, Digital India has become more data-rich than ever and has the potential to accelerate productivity specifically in innovative areas such as AI, robotics, big data, and IoT.

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Credit-worthy? Ask AIedit

Business Standard

Today, most major internet businesses are extending credit to their users and partners through the data generated on their platforms. Ola and Uber are partnering with the State Bank of India to introduce credit options for their driver partners. Flipkart is learnt to have acquired an NBFC licence to lend to sellers while Future Bazaar is all set to introduce a “buy now, pay later” facility at its Big Bazaar stores.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Remove Tax Compliance Inefficiencies In Indiaedit

Analytics India Mag

There could also be a number of challenges that tax authorities in India may face when using artificial intelligence. These can include the need to balance centralisation of tax assessment with on ground experience, uncertainties around being able to develop models which deliver a positive impact on performance, the varying range of choices in AI solutions, and the need for skills to leverage those advanced solutions.

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Businesses are finally starting to trust the cloudedit

Tech Radar

More than half (61%) of security professionals believe the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in the cloud compared to onpremise according to new research from Nominet. The firm surveyed nearly 300 Clevel security professionals from the UK and the US to compile its new Cyber security and the cloud report which marks a major tipping point in the perception of security in the cloud. (Cybersecurity)

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Blockchain is a game changer for decentralised infraedit

FNB News

Blockchain is not the only technology changing the way things are done when it comes to food or agricultural supply chain. Combining blockchain with other technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) makes the initiative impactful.

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Artificial Intelligence Empowering Patent Fillingedit

Inventiva

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence in every imaginable sphere that matters, it is hardly surprising that innovators are now in a rush to build their Intellectual Property portfolio in AI. The popularity of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and all other things related to Intelligent machines has been on the rise for quite some time now.

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Analysis: How Digital Transformation Can Cure The Current Downfall In India Economyedit

Analytics Insight

A digital backbone is crucial to enable such productivity either by reaching the right beneficiary, optimizing the paperless process through automation or digitized payments. Currently, Digital India has become more data-rich than ever and has the potential to accelerate productivity specifically in innovative areas such as AI, robotics, big data, and IoT.

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AI helps to design drug in just 21 daysedit

Express Computer

In a significant development, a Hong Kong based health startup has used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design a drug in just 21 days that showed potential treatments for fibrosis, a discovery that can speed up drug designing for various incurable diseases.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Auto sector crisis: August 2019 turns out to be another gloomy month for major carmakers in Indiaedit

India Today

Kia Motors has reportedly sold 6,200 units of Seltos in August 2019. One has to keep in mind that the numbers have been achieved in merely 10 days since the launch of the vehicle on August 22. MG Motor has been able to sell 2,018 units of Hector during the same month.

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Problem with evehicle Check out the Electric Futureedit

Zee Biz

Micromax CoFounder Rahul Sharmas Revolt Intellicorp and a network of car service centres, GoMechanic have announced a services & maintenance partnership to provide diagnosis, service, and repairs for electric vehicle users

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Plugging Into The Futureedit

Business Today

In the last few months, if there is one sector that has benefited from the largesse that policymakers can sometimes bestow on industries, it is the nascent electric vehicle (EV) industry in India. For long all that this industry got from the government was mere lip service even as the world moved ahead and charted a course. That has changed now.

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GST Council may cut tax on hybrid vehicles as auto sales sink: Reportedit

Money Control

Besides, except for electric vehicles, bicycles and rickshaws, all other commercial and personal use two and fourwheelers were brought under the 28 percent GST slab. For electric vehicles, the Council had in July cut rates from 12 percent to 5 percent.

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A host of ebike and escooter launches to mark 2019-20edit

The Week

Prime Minister Narendra Modis evehicle dream has got manufacturers ignited. A host of escooters, ebikes and equad bikes are about to be launched this year even as the 2023 deadline for stopping registration of petrol engine twowheelers and threewheelers is less than five years away.

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Industry News: Future of Work

How to Make Sure Robots Help Us, Not Replace Usedit

Bloomberg Quint

The world needs robots that make life better, not just ones that put people out of work. But business attitudes, government policy, and scientific priorities are geared toward replacing workers rather than complementing and enhancing their skills. That’s the bottom line of a report by a task force at MIT that was released today.

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Industry News: Education

AICTE-UGC merger: New body likely to look into higher education standardsedit

Money Control

The new merged entity of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission (UGC) will look at the standards of higher education institutions in the country. Sources told Moneycontrol that while there will be one single regulator National Higher Education Regulatory Authority (NHERA) for the higher education sector, there will be bodies under it to look into quality maintenance of institutions.

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