November 25, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

UK exploring partnerships with India in AI, fintech, e-mobilityedit

Business Standard

Our focus is on AI, fintech and financial services, cyber, and also e-mobility and health care. We are starting with the Ai/data science cluster in Karnataka, and the future mobility cluster in Maharashtra. We also aim to have the hubs in four locations around India — in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad — to bring together the innovators, entrepreneurs and start-ups.

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How Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytics tools are propelling growth in the CPG sectoredit

CIOL

In this typically resource intensive space, enterprises are increasingly looking to harness the power of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and advanced analytics to augment the roles of human teams.

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Cybersecurity a major chink in India Inc armouredit

The Economic Times

Globally, companies on an average take 7 days (162 hours) to respond to cybersecurity breaches while Indian companies average response time is 9 days (222 hours). Two days of delay is a very long time in cybersecurity. And that makes India Inc among the worst performers when it comes to dealing with attacks on their IT systems.

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CIO Ink: Automation is the future of data governanceedit

Tech Observer

In a perfect world, CIOs would have the bandwidth to ensure that every piece of data is perfectly managed and properly handled. But in the real world, no technology team has the time or resources to handle all of the information that bombards us every second of every day

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AI 101: How learning computers are becoming smarteredit

Business Insider

Artificial Intelligence social network eter9IBTMany companies use the term artificial intelligence, or AI, as a way to generate excitement for their products and to present themselves as on the cutting edge of tech development.

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This Artificial Intelligence tool is a boon for cancer patientsedit

Free Press Journal

Researchers have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) based method to determine which lungcancer patients may benefit from an expensive treatment called immunotherapy, an advance that may help reduce health care costs for underprivileged cancer patients.

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Robot assisted retinal screening in diabetes soonedit

Medical Dialogues

The patient sits in front of the camera and the results come out of the printer five minutes later,” said Schmidt-Erfurth, who heads up the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology. “The robot clearly states whether there is currently no damage, moderate damage or damage that requires urgent treatment and routes the patient directly to an ophthalmologist.”

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Researchers Use AI To Show People How Climate Change & Sea-Level Rise Will Impact Our Lifeedit

India Times

Researchers at Mila Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute have created an AI platform that how climate change can affect the vicinity around them. Victor Schmidt, a PhD candidate at Mila and lead author of the paper states, “It’s hard for people to relate to climate change when we only mention remote areas and polar bears.

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In rural Karnataka AI answers complaints in Kannadaedit

The Indian Express

The state run Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company (Bescom), which supplies power to eight districts in Karnataka, has now turned to an artificial intelligence powered system to service the over 9,000 complaints it receives on its helpline systems each day.

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GSMA: WRC-19 Opens Door To Exciting New 5G Servicesedit

Business Wire

To help spread the benefits of 5G to rural areas and accelerate the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, the GSMA is also supporting efforts to identify more spectrum below 1 GHz at WRC-23 to improve 5G coverage.

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Bad driver? You may have to pay higher insuranceedit

The Times of India

This may soon be a reality in the country, predict Internet of Things (IoT) experts while outlining how the insurance sector is getting ready to roll out Usage Based Insurance (UBI) – a type of automobile insurance that tracks driving behaviour and patterns using sensors and telematics devices fitted in vehicles.

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AI finds takers in BFSI, retail, health and educationedit

The Financial Express

The buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at an all time high. Firms offering enterprise solutions and consumer products are trying to get to the core of defining AI that is, to get to a point where their AI platforms are in a way a mimicry of the human brain and easily the best in the professions they are employed.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

MSRTC to run ebus on NashikPune routeedit

The Times of India

Termed as Shivai, the ebus will be launched as a nonAC bus. However, we are planning to soon launch AC buses. The installation of air conditioners in the ebus may prove to be a costly affair as far as power consumption is concerned, an MSRTC officer said.

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Lithiumion or lead acid battery electric vehicle Sunil Bhatnagar from Microlyte sheds some lightedit

The Financial Express

The brand was established two years ago and at present has one operational factory, with two more in the pipeline. This entire operations is part of the Micromax group. Yes, the ones famous for their cell phones. Now that we have got the gyaan out of the way, lets focus on the differentiation between a liion and lead acid battery.

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Karnataka government may grant 20 per cent parking reservation for electric vehiclesedit

Nyoooz

Forseeing potentials for e-vehicles in school buses to overcome the cost aspect, Shree Harsha, India Marjeting Director, Dassault Systems, felt that school buses could completely move to electric vehicles in the next three years.

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City misses out on electric buses in first phase of roll-outedit

The Hindu

The city will have to wait for an electric bus fleet even as six other cities are set to get 525 electric buses in the first phase of the roll-out. The State Transport Department has floated tenders and is waiting to finalise and award the contract soon for purchasing the 525 electric buses under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) scheme.

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Busting The Clean Electric Car Mythedit

The New Indian Express

The solution, apart from switching to a healthy energy mix, is clean public transport. EVs powered by renewable energy sources could soon become a reality, with the country setting a target of increasing renewables in the energy mix to 40% by 2030.

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India requires 78 years for concrete EV transition: Prabhakar Kadapaedit

The Economic Times

Prabhakar Kadapa, MD & CEO, PSA Avtec Powertrain talks about the future of EV ecosystem and what government should do to boost the EV sector. He also said that Indian EV space will require at least 78 years for the substantial changes to take place.

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E-mobility may help reduce air pollutionedit

The Sunday Guardian

So the government has to create and stimulate the market. Therefore, the role of regulatory design and policy is very critical.” She also emphasised on having clear zero emission mandate along with a combination of regulatory measures to incentivise the new technology.(FAME)

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Electric vehicle demand creation is job of vehicle manufacturers: Rajiv Bajajedit

Live Mint

As the auto industry continues to debate the dependence of electric vehicle (EV) adoption on the availability of charging network across India, the top executive at Bajaj Auto said that creation of demand for EVs and its adoption is squarely the job of the vehicle manufacturers

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Auto sector may spend Rs 17,000 cr on capex till FY21 despite slowdownedit

Business Standard

TVS Motor Company gave capex guidance of around Rs 600 crore for FY 20, which is to be spent on BSVI transition, electric vehicles and new product development; it is planning to invest additional Rs 100120 crore. Recently, the Tamil Nadu government gave nod for the companys Rs 300 crore brownfield expansion at Hosur.

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New electrodes may increase efficiency of electric vehicles: Studyedit

ANI News

A research team from Texas A and M University College of Engineering is approaching the mass problem from a unique angle. Most of the research aimed at lowering the mass of electric vehicles has focused on increasing the energy density, thus reducing the weight of the battery or super capacitor itself

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Fuelling clean drive: Electric vehicles get green platesedit

The Times of India

Electric vehicles in Delhi have started sporting green-coloured registration plates, made mandatory by the transport department to distinguish them from fuel-run vehicles. “The Centre had recently issued an order to make it compulsory for all electric vehicles to have green registration plates.

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Are Electric Motorcycles Unnecessary?edit

Motorbeam

The world is going electric and there is just so much talk about electric that if you want to do a start-up right now, just make electric vehicles or import them from China (that’s what majority of 2-wheeler electric brands are doing anyways).

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Industry News: Future of Work

Making You Future Readyedit

The Times of India

With reskilling emerging as a key solution to tide over the current job disruptions brought on by emerging tech, India is in the 2nd place globally (after the US) among countries actively upskilling themselves in popular skills, according to a Silicon Valley-based learning platform Udemy’s analysis of its 40m+ learners.

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Indian IT Employees Stare at a Mid-life Crisisedit

The Economic Times

The Indian information technology sector will see more layoffs. After thousands were fired by Infosys and Cognizant in the past six months, as many as 200,000 more may be at risk of losing their jobs in the next year as companies seek people with new skillsets, according to recruitment experts.

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Rejected for an engineering job Your qualifications might not be the reasonedit

Money Control

Manish Dhawan was fresh out of a leading engineering institute and had applied for a role at a manufacturing firm. However, he was surprised when his classmate with lower scores and no relevant work experience, was chosen over him.

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Top 5 Technology Trends in CRM for Employee Managementedit

BW Disrupt

IoT for creating an unbiased ecosystem As predicted by Gartner, CRM will be at the heart of digital initiatives in coming years as enterprises look to create more targeted interactions in a multichannel environment. The research firm also billed Internet of Things as the fifth driver of CRM in the The Nexus of Forces.

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Large numbers of IT workforce unfit for newage tasksedit

The Financial Express

Sector experts say just a fraction of these six lakh employees may be able to acquire skills relevant to new and advanced technologies. The rest of them are unlikely to be able to fit into roles that require knowledge of artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT) and cybersecurity

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Industry News: Education

New Education Policy: Good intentions but miles to goedit

The Times of India

It is high time that we should herald the death of the ‘distance’ if the shortage of teachers and quality of delivery are to be addressed meaningfully. The draft policy speaks about the formation of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communications Technology.

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AI transforms educational landscape at rocket speededit

The Hans India

A Intelligence (AI) is all around us. From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly. Today, there is no industry untouched by the ripples caused by artificial intelligence, be it medical, HR, media or education.

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