November 11, 2019

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This Flying Robot Can Clean Glass Curtain Walls In High-Risesedit

NDTV

“In the near future, we might see an extensive use of this new system in large infrastructure maintenance, and other special applications, such as scientific sampling.” said Meng Xiangdong, the robot’s designer. The team reported the development of a contact aerial manipulator system that shows high flexibility and strong mission adaptability at the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019) in Macao last week.

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Inaugural SFF x SWITCH to Kick Off Tomorrow with a Focus on Sustainabilityedit

BioSpectrum

The Conference comprises nine stages, where prominent speakers will discuss topics on Sustainability, Finance and Tech; Future of Finance; Investment and Global Markets Opportunities; Exponential Technologies; Global Access to Innovation; Future Directions with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Healthcare Innovation; Powering Cities of the Future; and Sustaining the Future of Humanity.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Polity is unprepared for the next Industrial Revolutionedit

The Hindu Business Line

The Fourth Industrial Revolution will involve a mix of technologies. These include 5G telecom, Internet of Things (IoT), AI, robotics, quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnology, and others.

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Made in India AIedit

Business Standard

At a recent workshop I co-organised in Bangalore, with the theme of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and innovation, the discussion turned to the origin of an AI system or specifically: What is “Made in India AI”? Answering that question seems to be important for three reasons. First, AI adoption is rapidly increasing.

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How to protect data in motionedit

CRN

Building a data security in motion plan is another step organizations shouldn’t skip. This includes defining requirements that will help safeguarding data in transit, addressing possible situations that could result in breaches and raising awareness among employees and partners. All employees should be aware of the security risks that could expose the organization to fees and fines due to poor cyber security procedures.

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How AI, 5G and IoT are Accelerating Market Growth of Network Analyticsedit

Analytics Insight

The report envisaged that the increasingly making use of 5G, IoT, and cloud are factors that could create a larger market for network analytics. Its processes, however, can be automated; thus, IT staff no longer need to manually look for and troubleshoot problems.

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AI can predict where lightning will strike 30 minutes in advanceedit

Millennium Post

Scientists on Friday said they have developed a simple and inexpensive artificial intelligence (AI) system that can predict when lightning will strike any place within a 30-kilometre radius, up to 30 minutes in advance. Lightning -one of the most unpredictable phenomena in nature -regularly kills people and animals and sets fire to homes and forests.

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When Windows 7 Dies, Don’t Rely on Microsoft to Keep Your PC Safeedit

PC Mag

Windows 7 is not just for laptops and desktop workstations. Many Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as point-of-sale terminals, ATMs, vending machines, and medical devices are using it. Most of these devices use Windows 7 Embedded, a stripped-down version of the operating system meant to run on resource-constrained machines.

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Just 8.7 Per cent of Homes in South Asia Have an IoT Deviceedit

News Gram

It revealed that even with over 14,000 IoT manufacturers worldwide, 94 per cent of all IoT devices are manufactured by just 100 vendors. “A key finding of this paper is that 94 per cent of the home IoT devices were made by fewer than 100 vendors, and half are made by just ten vendors,” said Rajarshi Gupta, Head of AI at Avast

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IoT followed by ML and AI are leading the Digital Transformation journeyedit

Var India

According to global research, it is evident that Internet of Things (IOT) has become the leading technology for digital transformation followed by Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Improved service delivery, better health and safety across organization and greater workforce productivity are some of the key benefits of IOT.

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Digital twin technology to revolutionise many sectorsedit

The Hans India

A digital twin is a replica of a physical entity in the digital world. Thanks to the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the real-time data of this physical entity is seamlessly transmitted, allowing its virtual counterpart to coexist.

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Apps breaching your digital privacy, stealing dataedit

The Times of India

Every ‘free’ mobile phone application comes with a heavy price — the applications not only learn your preferences, location, usage patterns and other applications you use, but many can also mine personal data if it’s a malware or spyware.

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Present And Future Of RPA Industryedit

Business World

We are living in an era where automation is helping businesses in every industry around the world seek efficiencies that come from replacing manual tasks with machine-operated ones. Companies are adopting automation technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for business growth to encourage greater creativity, productivity and innovation from employees

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AI will add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030edit

The Financial Express

Most organisations today acknowledge that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to solve complex problems at scale, enhance efficiency and optimise costs. According to a recent survey done by PwC ‘With AI’s Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’, 65% of global and 62% of Indian CXOs have implemented AI in some form.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

To Discuss Indias EV Strategy, Stakeholders from Automobile Sector to Gather in Delhiedit

Indian Web2

Keeping in mind India’s potential to become the next big market for electric vehicle infrastructure, World EV Show will aim to open up business opportunities and investments in the Indian electric vehicle space by gathering global EV experts, policymakers, public and private automotive companies, lithiumion batteries manufacturers and mobility service providers.

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Heres How Germany Is Helping India To Shift To Emobilityedit

Inc 42

The Indian government will use the funds to set up EV charging stations German chancellor Angela Merkel was on a threeday visit to the national capital Heres How Germany Is Helping India To Shift Towards Emobility.

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Centre to increase EV charging points with German fundedit

The New Indian Express

Since December 2018, the government is working on setting up charging stations, in its push for 30 per cent electric vehicle and green mobility by 2030.

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Success of electric buses touches new heights, 2.14L passengers avail services in 18 monthsedit

Millennium Post

It may be mentioned that both in India and abroad, special drives have been taken to introduce electric vehicles replacing the fuel driven ones to reduce environmental pollution. The State Transport department has introduced 80 buses that are plying in different routes in Kolkata.

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150 new ebuses to ply on city roads by early 2021edit

The Times of India

The SMC will have shell out almost onethird equivalent value. An ebus can cost up to Rs 1.70 crore per bus but would accommodate more commuters than the existing dieselrun bus and ridership could go up by another 1 lakh plying the same routes.

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Will Gujarat govt shun double standards in enforcing HSRP ruleedit

Ahmedabad Mirror

Gujarat government takes lead to promote Centres electric mobility mission but has still been unable to get the mandated green high security registration plates, forcing the Corporation to ply ebuses on city roads using regular number plates.

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More than clean, electric vehicles are more efficientedit

The Navhind Times

We are the first known OEM Company in two wheeler space to put out the electric product. Other OEMs Okinawa is a startup, Ather is startup. We are first mainstream OEM to put up electronic product. People are quite happy about it but we will be only able to judge the real feelings of people after we put out the product for sale.

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Longterm planning is needed to make power grids ready for EV load: Reportedit

The Hindu Business Line

Nobel laureate M Stanley Whittingham When electric vehicles (EVs) become a favoured transportation option for Indians, policy makers need to think about the ecosystem it will require, and it is much more than just planning for charging stations.

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Future of Smart Mobility is brighter than you think: In conversation with Unity Technologiesedit

The Financial Express

Future of Smart Mobility is brighter than you think: In conversation with Unity Technologies Unity Technologies is powering the future of car buying experiences, helping car dealerships reduce inventory and increasing attach rates for dealer options.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Why future leaders need to be skilled in new-age technologiesedit

The Times of India

By Shivangi Mishra

As we enter Industry 4.0, the biggest challenge is the creation of workforce that is skilled in new-age technologies such as AI, ML, blockchain and IoT. There is equal focus on upskilling working professionals as is on skilling fresh graduates.

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Can Big Data And AI Solve Problem Of Leadership Hiringedit

Business World

While artificial intelligence is making recruitment extremely intelligent as a process, there still exist multiple lacunae with the implementation of existing technology towards CxO level recruitment. We are a long way off the goal of making AI emotionally intelligent. It is most likely that there will be a day in the distant future when we will have WallE recruiting CEOs. However, today that is science fiction for the industry at large.

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Artificial Intelligence Poses New Threat to Equal Employment Opportunityedit

Forbes

Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water, a new threat has emerged to equal employment opportunity as employers base hiring decisions on artificial intelligence powered video and game-based “pre-employment” assessments of job candidates.

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Industry News: Education

Education plays key role in nation building: UGC Memberedit

The Hans India

Education is playing a key role in nation building, said University Grants Commission (UGC) member G Gopal Reddy on Saturday. He participated as chief guest in twoday programme on higher education institutions held at SV University.

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Heres why India needs to reengineer the education systemedit

India Today

Additionally, there are several specialized courses that act as catalysts for one respective formal education degree. These ranges from smart technologies such as artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, blockchain technology that helps add high value to engineering oriented degrees. Furthermore, a course on car modification, lab, xray and dialysis technician, helps an individual to be ahead of the curve as compared to their peers.

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