December 6, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Robots in retail? The questions you need to ask when adoptingedit

Analytics Insight

Automating data collection in the brick and mortar space continues to be an elusive goal and remains the target to chase to bring in the highest level of efficiencies and automation to the whole supply chain.

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RBI’s new cybersecurity guidelines are pushing India’s 1,574 urban cooperative banks to bring digital services up to snuffedit

Business Insider

By Prabhjote  Gill

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that it will be putting in new cybersecurity guidelines for urban cooperative banks (UCBs) by 31 December 2019. The central bank said that it wants to bring UCBs at par with commercial banks.

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Quantum Trends And The Internet of Thingsedit

Forbes

There is an additional “entanglement” relating to quantum, and that is its intersection with the Internet of Things (IoT). Loosely defined, the Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the general idea of things that are readable, recognizable, locatable, addressable, and/or controllable via the Internet. It encompasses devices, sensors, people, data, and machines and the interactions between them.

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Open-source gaining momentum in the healthcare industryedit

ET Health World

Following the ongoing global digital revolution, the continuously evolving role of information technology (IT) in the healthcare sector is only set to gain more weight going forward. While new-age technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and big data have already started making headway within healthcare, IT continues to play a vital part from an administrative point of view, enriching the quality and efficiency of healthcare

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McAfee Labs threat predictions 2020edit

The Economic Times

By Priyanka Sangani

With more enterprises turning to cloud services, the need for cloud security is greater than ever. The increased adoption of robotic process automation and the growing importance to secure system accounts used for automation raises security concerns tied to Application Programming Interface (API) and their wealth of personal data.

CyberSecurityRPA
Internet of Things fastest-growing business; data center and cloud largest: Airtel Business CEOedit

ET Telecom

By Danish Khan

We are trying to make sure that the first piece of connectivity also becomes a digital base of the network. Secondly, we have gone deeper into offering the connectivity in verticals based on their needs using 4G wireless, wireline, and VVSAT. Thirdly, we have started doing bundling.

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India’s cybersecurity market to touch $3 billion by 2022: Reportedit

Express Computer

The transaction value of digital payments in India is estimated to grow annually at a rate of 20.2 per cent from about US$ 64.8 billion in 2019 to US$ 135.2 billion in 2023, the report by PwC India and Data Security Council of India (DSCI) said.

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Global IoT enterprise drone shipments to grow 50% in 2020, says Gartner reportedit

The Financial Express

Worldwide shipments of Internet of Things (IoT) enterprise drones (defined as flying drones) will total 526,000 units in 2020, an increase of 50 per cent from the previous calendar year, according to research firm Gartner, Inc. Global shipments are forecast to reach 1.3 million units by 2023, it said.

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Financial firms struggling to assess risks of Disruptive Technologiesedit

Money Control

Unfortunately, risk functions’ scaled adoption of sophisticated technologies remains limited. While nearly all risk functions have started using RPA to automate routine tasks, only two in five respondents (40 percent) said they apply advanced analytics such as AI and predictive modeling to their datasets, with only 10 percent applying machine learning.

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Ethical artificial intelligenceedit

Fortune India

By Enrico De Giorgi and Chitro Majumdar

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is acquiring increasing importance in many applications that support decision-making in various areas, including healthcare, consumption, and risk classification of individuals.

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Deepfakes — cyber threat getting more sinisteredit

The Hindu Business Line

By KV Kurmanath

Even as the world grapples with fake news, here comes a newer and more dangerous threat. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, cyber criminals could put words into mouths of people who never speak. They can ‘make’ top executives say things that would hit the company’s stock performance. Even as the world finds it difficult to handle the flood of fake news and doctored videos, the threat of deepfakes is real and here.

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AI, ML startups turn new favourite for investors as deeptech becomes backbone for businessesedit

The Financial Express

Technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics and SaaS (Software as a Service) are moving decision-making up the value chain from post-facto to preventive to predictive or enabling faster decision making or even adding efficiency in the process

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Adoption of AI, blockchain tech comes with risksedit

The Hindu Business Line

Adopting artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and robotic process automation (RPA) might not be such an easy task for financial companies given that there could be many undesired consequences. A new study has found risk managers grappling with the potential downsides of AI and new technology.

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5 Technologies that will shape our world over the next five yearsedit

ET CIOA

Technology has changed the world as we knew it and is going to do so for the foreseeable future. Any conversation about emerging technologies that will impact our lives is not possible without a reference to Artificial Intelligence, and rightly so. It is a powerful trend that will shape the future of work, transform every sector imaginable and touch every aspect of life.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Understanding EV charging infrastructure: A walk through Delta Electronicsedit

ET Auto

With smart mobility gearing up on fast mode, the Indian electric vehicle ecosystem is largely dependent on the robust charging ecosystem. ETAuto takes an opportunity to explore the options for EV charging solutions.

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Industry News: Education

Foundational learning: Let’s not delay the NEPedit

The Financial Express

The draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019—the first update in almost three decades—is potentially a game changer as it aims to bring some long-awaited shifts in the education continuum and offers a clear pathway of reform. The draft NEP has identified issues of ‘early childhood education’ and ‘foundational learning’, which are at the core of the learning crisis, and it has the right set of ideas when it comes to giving importance to the liberal arts model for transforming higher education.

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