November 20, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

THE AI IN TRANSPORTATION REPORT: How automakers can use artificial intelligence to cut costs, open new revenue streams, and adapt to the digital ageedit

Business Insider

By Ayoub Aouad

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one technology automakers can turn to in order to adapt to this changing landscape. AI will create significant opportunities for automakers to both reduce production costs and introduce new revenue streams, including selfdriving technology, predictive maintenance, and route optimization.

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Need to adopt AI, new tech for collecting more scientific agridata: Chief Statisticianedit

The Economic Times

Collecting agricultural data in a decentralised economy is a big challenge and there is a need to adopt new technologies like big data and artificial intelligence to get more scientific information for policy making, Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava said on Monday. To produce quality data, there is a need to look at how data is collected, he noted.

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IoT Report: How Internet of Things technology growth is reaching mainstream companies and consumersedit

Business Insider

By Peter Newman

This is a preview of the Internet of Things (2018) research report from Business Insider Intelligence. To learn more about the IoT ecosystem, tech trends and industry forecasts, click here. The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how companies and consumers go about their days around the world.

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Enabling AI compute with adaptive chipsedit

The Times of India

We’re at an inflection point in the semiconductor industry, with intelligent connected devices becoming pervasive. These intelligent devices are in our homes, cars, offices, factories, cities, and in the cloud. The cost for this pervasive artificial intelligence (AI) is an exponential increase in the data-processing requirements placed on the semiconductors that power these devices.

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AI IN BANKING: Artificial intelligence could be a near $450 billion opportunity for banks here are the strategies the winners are usingedit

Business Insider

By Eleni Digalaki

The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence.

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AI forms a critical part of our tech enabled approachedit

Fortune

By Sourav Majumdar

Continuing with tech for a bit longer, do you use AI and robotics as well for a better customer experience and productivity AI and robotics form a core part of our technology enabled approach. We have developed multiple solutions using these cutting edge technologies and will continue to innovate as newer technology platforms come to the fore.

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2020 cybersecurity putting the house in orderedit

Tech Radar

Cybersecurity has constantly been in the news, both because of publicized breaches, but also because of data protection laws. Here Nik Whitfield explains why businesses need to think beyond security simply in terms of password protection and antivirus software, and look to implement better cybersecurity planning.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Urban India will soon have at least one EV charging station every 3 kmedit

The Economic Times

By Anshul Joshi

In the first phase of Electric Vehicles (EV) rollout plan, the power ministry is targeting 4 billionplus population cities under the EV policy initiative. It plans to cover all the state capitals, union territories, major highways and key cities under the second phase.

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The real mainstream: Hydrogen or electric vehiclesedit

The Financial Express

Exasperated with the status of air pollution in the region, the Supreme Court recently directed the Union government to explore the feasibsility of using hydrogen technologies as a permanent solution to the air pollution in Delhi NCR and other parts of North India. In the past also, the Supreme Court has shown interest in getting hydrogen fueled buses on NCR roads.

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Electric vehicle charging: The types, times and everything else explained!edit

The Financial Express

By Ayush Arya

But they need to be supported by proper charging infrastructure. Though charging an electric vehicle is quite simple, one must be aware of all the different types of electric vehicle charging that are currently on offer. In this article, we explain the different types of electric vehicle charging, the time they take to charge a vehicle and everything else that you need to know in this regard.

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Electric bus demo run to start in city soonedit

The Times of India

The Capital Region Urban Transport (Crut) will facilitate a demo run of electric buses of different companies to induct them into city buses services.

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Andhra Pradesh Govt Defers Its Plan to Introduce 350 Electric Busesedit

News 18

The airconditioned buses were to be deployed on Gross Cost Contract (GCC) basis, under PhaseII of Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid)Electric Vehicles (FAME) in India scheme.

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2.85 Lakh buyers of electric/hybrid vehicles provided subsidy under Fame India Schemeedit

Business Standard

Benefit of incentives to buyers of mild hybrid vehicles under Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in (FAME INDIA) scheme was withdrawn with effect from 1 April 2017 based on the third party evaluation of Phase I of FAME India Scheme.

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112 EV charging stations ready for rolloutedit

The Hindu

By Chitra V Ramani

By December, the city is likely to have 112 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, including 12 fast-charging outlets. The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) has missed its August 2019 deadline, but sources said that they are confident that all 112 stations will be up and running by the first week of next month.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Would You Prefer a Robot Over Your Bossedit

Qrius

The use of robotics in Asia is growing rapidly. Sales of industrial robots in India jumped by 39% in a year, while China is aiming to become one of the worlds most automated nations by 2020.Artificial intelligence is boosting productivity

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Technology Transforms Workplace Trends: Ravi Shankar Prasadedit

Business World

by Avishek Banerjee

With the advent of artificial intelligence, automation and cloud computing, there is a reorganisation of the workspace, making many jobs redundant and creating many more high skilled jobs. Intelligence software is already automating many back office roles in fields like accountancy, finance, and law.

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Industry News: Education

DoTE directs training centers to comply with AICTE normsedit

Morung Express

It however stated that there are many institutes still running the courses by awarding Diploma in the certificates, which cannot be used until and unless it is recognized by AICTE (norms & guidelines). It further informed that training duration less than 3 years can result in only certificate course and not a diploma.

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