September 16, 2019

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Science, tech key to economic prosperityedit

DT Next 

Inaugurating the centenary celebrations of the Institution of Engineers India (IEI) here, he said, “science and technology enable us to harness the resources provided by the nature so as to benefit the mankind. Stating that technological prowess, management, forecasting and innovation were vital for a nation’s progress, he said, “the desire to excel and attain perfection have to become keener for us to be able to cope up with the challenges of a changing global scenario.”

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Chip ‘fingerprint’ technology for secure transactionsedit

The Hindu 

This is known as a physically unclonable function. Developing a technology to implement this is a highly competitive field, and IIT Bombay researchers have developed a device that can be used for this purpose. The research has been published in the journal IEEE Electron Device Letters.

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Accept disruptive changes to succeed, says expertedit

The Times of India

He was the chief guest for the 52nd engineers day at Anna University (BIT Campus) Trichy organised by organised by Trichy local centre of the Institution of Engineers (India) on Sunday. Unlike the era of traditional companies, change is often disruptive in digital time which is changing way of life.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

The global grid analytics market is expected to accelerate to $2.31 billion in 2025edit

Money Control 

In the future, the areas with the greatest growth opportunities will include; Service outcome-based business models instead of just power generation and transmission. Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors that track and transmit data from and to the grid. IoT infrastructure spending by utilities is forecast to reach more than $2 billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 20.5 percent.

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Faceless assessment of income tax returns takes effectedit

Live Mint 

According to Rakesh Nangia, managing partner, Nangia Advisors (Andersen Global), the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, video conferencing, telecommunication application software and mobile applications in e-assessment process are a few measures which emerged economies have already adopted long back.

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Data and AI Forum explores scope of Digital Revolution by harnessing technologyedit

Elets Online 

Rahul Kapoor, Director, Smart Cities, talked about the massive role technologies like Data, AI, IoT are playing in the Smart Cities Mission of the Government of India. He stated, “Smart Cities Mission started a dialogue with technology and gradually technologies like IoT were deployed. However, these weren’t devoid of challenges.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining the Face of E-Commerce Marketingedit

CIOL 

Companies have increasingly started to hire mobile app development companies to create apps for improving user interaction and increasing customer retention. AI chatbots offer an equally, if not more, efficient alternative. For instance, long waiting time is one of the biggest reasons companies lose sales. Real-time chatbots can respond to user queries within seconds.

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AI & ML: The New Era Market Intelligence Advisor For Procurementedit

Business World 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its most simplistic definition is the ability to mimic human intelligence to the level at which it becomes very difficult to distinguish between a human and a machine. Machine Learning (ML) is a method or an algorithm of letting an AI application figure out the steps needed to accomplish a specific task.

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The Rise of Robot-Assisted Surgeriesedit

Analytics Insight 

The field of surgery is seeing a time of extraordinary change as a result of amazing recent advances in surgical and computer innovation. Robotic surgery could change treatment by giving exact, stable, and apt help to human surgeons. The best-known surgical robot, Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci, is intended to improve the clinical results of patients through insignificantly invasive surgery.

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How To Simplify Your Financial Processes With Big Dataedit

Analytics Insight 

Cybersecurity has always been a critical issue in the financial sector, especially for banks and lending companies. Cases of fraud have been prevalent in recent years, so companies will have to step up in terms of adopting the right tools for keeping their financial data from falling into the wrong hands. Cybersecurity packages have become even more sophisticated to better address new threats.

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Artificial General Intelligence Is The Next Step In Machine Intelligence Journeyedit

Business World

The rise of autonomous robots and vehicles is directly linked to advances in Artificial Intelligence. Affective computing focuses on systems which can even decipher emotions. These computers would use facial expressions, postures, gestures, speech, temperature of body etc to understand emotional state of user and adapt its response accordingly.

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AI In Enterprises Is Clearly Going Through A Flux, But The Future Looks Brighteredit

Analytics India Mag 

By Vishal Chawla

Businesses need predictability of functions and in this context, AI-powered recommendation systems have a prominent role to play in driving revenue growth. For example, AI can add value for sales through contextual recommendations using data in customer interactions across different channels. AI-driven processes can also be applied to a number of related areas at the same time.

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Cyberattacks on medical devices down to 19% in 2019: Kasperskyedit

Sia Sat 

More than two years after the infamous Wannacry ransomware crippled medical facilities and other organisations worldwide, the healthcare sector seems to be learning its lessons as a new report has revealed that attacks on medical devices declined to 19 per cent in 2019 from 28 per cent in 2018. The decline in the number of attacks against devices in healthcare facilities is, however, not observed everywhere, according to the findings by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Government may float tender soon for mega investments in battery manufacturingedit

Auto Car Professional 

In Indias quest to realise massscale electric mobility, affordability of electric vehicles is a serious hurdle. Therefore, localisation of battery, the single most expensive component in any electric vehicle, is key. It is learnt that the government is targeting to set up a 50 GWh battery manufacturing capacity in India by 2025 or so. The required investment for the same could be to the tune of $50 billion (Rs 354,650 crore).

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Energy trends and technologies for Indiaedit

The Times of India 

But lets not blame Trump alone. In India, like elsewhere, everybody wants the bigger car, the McMansion, and the split aircons. If you have the money, just go ahead and splurge. Electric vehicles have captured the attention of policy makers in India, but EVs still need to be powered up. That power comes from central generation today, where coal is still king in India.

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E-tailers push for electric mobility in Indiaedit

Fortune India

Last week online grocery retailer bigbasket announced an ambitious plan to increase its current fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) to1000 electric vans and 2000 electric bikes in the next one year for its last-mile delivery service across metro cities. While analysts feel it is a smart eco-friendly move by bigbasket to cut down delivery cost, there are infrastructure issues that need to be addressed.

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Electric vehicles: The way forward for early adoptionedit

The Financial Express 

Local manufacturing: The major cost in an EV is the battery. Now, and in the foreseeable future, batteries used in Indian EVs are/will be imported, largely from China. There is continuous innovation in batteries and a fear is that low-technology batteries, which are no longer popular in China, are getting dumped in India

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Driverless cars: A whole new marketing channeledit

ET Brand Equity 

There are three tectonic forces hitting the auto industry simultaneously, and even one of them would be powerful enough to disrupt the entire industry. This powerful trifecta of forces is fleets represented by app-based Cabson-demand like Uber/Ola, electric vehicles EV replacing IC engines, and finally, autonomous or driverless cars.

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Discussing India’s Auto Components Landscapeedit

Business Standard 

The government and private sector thrust on electrification is likely to ramp up sales of electric vehicles (EVs), with varying outcomes for different players; 3. The continued growth of shared mobility could see the emergence of a new customer segment, i.e. fleet aggregators and owners;

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Bengaluru: Bounce faces helmet thefts, to use IoT to tackle menaceedit

The Times of India 

From this month, we have deployed new IoT-enabled helmets which have curbed the number of thefts. We’re currently scaling this up and in the next two months, all helmets will Intenet of Things-enabled” Hallekere said. He added that their community members are helping retrieve helmets.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Companies prefer practical data skills to Data Science degrees: Surveyedit

The Indian Express 

Eighteen percent (18 percent) of business decision-makers globally and 21 percent in APAC said that a data skills certification (something that can be earned well after college or formal education) was the best indicator of a candidates data literacy and demonstrated the ability to use the techniques most required today.

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95% Indian Employees Think They Could Do Their Bosss Job Better: Surveyedit

News 18 

Even as bosses worldwide, including in India, are well regarded by their employees, most of these same employees think they could personally manage even more effectively do their managers job, according to a survey.

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Infosys study flags talent famine in new areas like AI, blockchainedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Digitisation of businesses is driving demand for new technical skills that industries are struggling to find. There is a need to fill AI, blockchain, big data analytics roles but a new study says corporates are unable to find the right talent. What was once called a ‘talent war’ has turned a ‘talent famine’, according to the study by Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI), the research arm of IT major Infosys.

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Global recession may take a toll on IT jobsedit

The Hans India

According to Mishra, global IT companies are currently cautious about the US market. Due to it, they are likely to undertake cost optimisation. “From couple of years, IT companies refrained from hiring due to the automation shift. Currently, the change has settled, more projects are coming in. These dynamics will change if recession kicks in,” Mishra said.

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Analytics, AI among tech skills high in demandedit

Telangana Today 

Enterprises globally are undertaking digital initiatives to enhance customer experience and increasing productivity, and the technical skills in greatest demand for carrying out these efforts include analytics, automation and artificial intelligence (AI), as per a study by IT major Infosys. The study by Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI) the research arm of Infosys said digitising business is “less about disruption and more about meeting focused objectives”.

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Industry News: Education

Engineers, The Engine Of A Developing Nationedit

Business Standard 

Put simply, without food there would be no society. Our development by early peoples, who were engineers in effect, has enabled us to cultivate and harvest crops and rear animals. Given the importance of this sector, agriculture has a strong link with engineering.

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Edtech will be led by small screensedit

The Financial Express 

How is the internet changing the future of work and the future of education Internet is helping create new products and services at a speed much faster than anticipated, which makes it difficult to preempt its implications on the future of work. But several studies on this topic in the Indian context suggest that two-thirds of current roles may get morphed into completely new ones.

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How artificial intelligence will help shape the future of higher education?edit

The Asian Age 

Among the beyond classroom activities, AI could help the higher learning institutions setup effective career counselling sections. AI and analytics could help the students identify various domains wherein they could do better or help them map learning trajectories to be followed for specific career choices.

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Coming Soon: AI Classes For CBSE Students With Curriculum Designed By IBM Expertsedit

Swarajya Mag

Following the announcement by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that it will soon begin to offer Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an elective to students from classes 9 to 12, it has now been revealed that American IT major IBM will be preparing the curriculum for the same, reports The Times of India.

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