October 10, 2019

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10 Best Programming Languages for Engineersedit

EET India

IEEE Spectrum released its annual ranking of program languages last month and many were surprised to see Python maintained its top spot. Python, a script-based language, has held the top spot in IEEE Spectrum’s ranking since 2017.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

India is as prepared as US or Australia to welcome the 5G eraedit

Business Insider

Indian businesses will have more to gain initially but its only a matter of time before consumers will gain as the network matures. And, its going to help industries be more efficient by facilitating the Internet of Things (IoT) build up

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How to identify disruptive trends to futureproof your businessedit

Express Computer

Trends don’t act in isolation. Established digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence, combine to generate new trends that create an exponentially bigger impact.

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5G: Riding the revolutionary waveedit

The Economic Times

With 5G and other revolutionary telecom technologies around the cornera game changer on an entirely different scale businesses are in for the next phase of upheavals, with the emergence of new business models, as well as marked changes in existing models.

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Digital transformation is decentralisation of innovationedit

The Economic Times

How are you adopting artificial intelligence in Collabera Artificial intelligence is more towards predictive and prescriptive analytics which comes from captured behaviour pattern. We have been working through our data to create analytical building blocks. We have been working on chatbots, cognitive services, NLP and are planning to move towards the ecosystem model from the current business model which is very traditional.

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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence in the Corporationedit

Forbes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is top of mind for leading corporations these days 96.4% of top executives reported earlier this year that AI was the number one disruptive technology that they were investing in, up from 68.9% just two years ago. In addition, 80% of these executives identified AI as the most impactful disruptive technology, up from 46.6% two years earlier.

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Bringing a change through designedit

Live Mint

By Rashmi Menon

While mobility is an important aspect of urban dwellers lives, with cities embracing Internet of Things (IOT) and gearing up to become Smart cities, Canadian architect Emma Greer will critically look at the varied applications of IOT from mobility to citizen participation.

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Banking customers will embrace AI if they trust whats behind the curtainedit

Money Control

And consumer sentiment about businesses use of AI is quickly changing. In fact, Genpact research found that the number of consumers that were comfortable with companies using AI to access personal data if it improves their customer experience jumped from 30 percent in 2017 to 54 percent in 2019.

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Artificial Intelligence Could Be a $14 Trillion Boon to the Global Economy – If It Can Overcome These Obstaclesedit

Fortune

By Bernhard Warner

Software startups want to use artificial intelligence to manage sales. Can A.I. close deals better than salespeople with a more human touch. Global growth is stalling. Trade wars are hammering manufacturers, from Shanghai to Stuttgart to Seattle. But, awful as today’s economic outlook appears, Industry 4.0 is alive and well, its most ardent backers say.

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New harvest: Indian agritech businesses see growth in B2B segmentedit

The Financial Express

By Srinath Srinivas

Recent developments in modern technologies have helped these businesses scale. For instance, drone technology and IoT sensors have helped in large scale mapping of fields and remote crop monitoring, which can then be linked to a mobile platform.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

One danger of electric vehicles no ones talking aboutedit

The Week

From subsidies of at least 10,000 crores for manufacturers, GST and import duty cuts and incentives ranging from registration fee exemptions to providing land for charging infrastructure, Indias central as well as state governments are on a major electric vehicle (EV) drive

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On the cards: e-scooters at 4 more metro stationsedit

The Hindu

The facility got a phenomenal response especially from young people as they are enthused about keeping the city clean,” said Mr. Kachal. While the agency is open to provide the services across the Delhi Metro network, Mr. Kachal added that the proposal for the extension of services to four other metro stations is under consideration with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

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Lower toll for EVs on the cards to push green mobilityedit

The Economic Times

India is weighing the option of concessional toll rates for electric vehicles as it looks to incentivise adoption of clean mobility solutions, a move may that may be reflected in the revamped toll policy that the governments transport wing is working on, officials aware of the matter said.

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Govt’s electric vehicle policy receives mixed reaction from carmakers, industry stakeholdersedit

The Financial Express

The event saw mixed reactions from electric vehicle makers when it comes to Government policies regarding EV’s and adoption. Here is what the top EV makers had to say.

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Electric vehicles lithium battery policy to incentivise recycling entitiesedit

The Economic Times

By Yogima Sharma

India is in the process of framing a recycling policy for lithium ion batteries being used in electric vehicles and offer tax sops to recycling entities while imposing a liability on producers to collect used batteries that achieve end of life under the extended producer responsibility (EPR) norms

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BMTC will phase out Volvo buses, lease EVsedit

The Times of India

By Christin Mathew Philip

Citing losses, cash-strapped Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has decided to phase out Volvo airconditioned buses in the city. BMTC officials said 300 A/C electric buses will soon replace Volvo diesel buses over the next few months.

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Battery Management Systems What are they and what relevance do they holdedit

The Financial Express

In general, for batteries, there are 3 components for energy storage. Cell manufacturing, which is the battery cells that the government wants India to manufacture. A pack manufacturing business, where the cells are bought and most of them are imported from China today. So manufacturers buy the cells and assemble it into a battery pack.

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Auto industry stuck in reverseedit

Fortune

By Prerna Lidhoo

On an average, Indias largest carmaker by sales produces around 5,500 cars a day at its Gurugram and Manesar plants in Haryana. Well, it used to. The company cut production by a third in August from a year ago the seventh straight month of production cuts. Total domestic sales for the month fell 36% yearonyear to 94,728 units. Production was also suspended on September 7 and 9.

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Are Financing Issues Ailing the Electric Vehicle Industryedit

Entrepreneur

By Shreya Ganguly

At a time when the government is focusing on localizing production of electric vehicles (EVs) in India, financing of projects is turning out to be the biggest hurdle. “The upfront costs are very high and thus financial re-engineering is very important for e-mobility,” said Vinit Bansal, CEO and founder of EV Motors India, while speaking at the EVCon India conference

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A 10% GST cut would have helped customers 8% on costedit

The Financial Express

In addition, the transition from BS IV to BS VI, the government’s recent announcement on the ban of internal combustion engine (ICE)-driven two wheelers under 150cc by 202 5 as well as government’s push for electric vehicles (EVs) have led to the delay in customers’ buying decision.

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5 mobility trends that are shaping the future of transportedit

Money Control

E-mobility continues to be a hot topic in 2019. The Indian automotive industry is the fourth largest in the world, with production soaring to 5.17 million units in 2018. Consequently, the resulting congestion, pollution and fuel crisis have paved the way for mobility trends that will revolutionise future transport.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Skilling, reskilling key to navigate tech changes at workplace: Expertsedit

The Economic Times

Technological development, including blockchain, artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, are bringing major changes across industries. Skilling and reskilling will help employees navigate through the technological changes taking place across industries and workplaces, according to human resource experts.

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AI Hiring Tools can be Just as Biased as Humansedit

The Economic Times

The next time you apply for a job, the fate of your application may not be in human hands — instead, an algorithm could determine whether or not you make the cut. Employers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence-driven tools to carry out recruitment and hiring. Advocates say AI is the key to rooting out human bias and ending discrimination in the hiring process.

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Industry News: Education

National Education Policy: How liberal education can be Indianised to produce pragmatic technocratsedit

Business Today

Arts and humanities were long thought of by the countrys aspirational middle class as an impractical education model that did not endow students with tangible skills as compared to more professional streams such as engineering and medicine that led to lucrative jobs.

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CBSE Releases Facilitators Handbook For Artificial Intelligence (AI)edit

BW Education

Central Board of Secondary Education, following up on its plan to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a skill subject in classes 8 and 9, has released Facilitators Handbooks on Artificial Intelligence. The Facilitator’s handbook for AI Curriculum for students studying in class 8 and class 9 covers a 112 hours curriculum. The handbook is based on experiential methodologies covering both social and technical skills.

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