December 11, 2019

News for the IET

Gen Z know they want to do things that matteredit

Live Mint MINT

By Aparna Piramal Raje

From what my colleague Mandeep Maitra (chair of the IET Engineering Future of Work Steering Committee) was saying sometime ago, millennials are still looking for stability, maybe more than Gen Z. I think its a bit early to know just how true that is.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

57% Of Urban Indians Satisfied With Urban Infrastructure: GII AIpsos Global Infrastructure Index 2019edit

Business World

Interestingly, 57% of urban Indians have rated India good on urban infrastructure, which places India 3rd among 28 markets, after China & Saudi Arabia, revealed Least Nimby markets on the Nimby (Not in my Backyard) Index. On the other hand, Global citizens are quite unhappy with the quality of infrastructure.

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Top 5 RPA predictions for 2020: Automation Anywhere EVP reveals his pickedit

The News Minute

Milan Sheth believes that 2020 will be the breakout year for intelligent automation as it continues to bring enormous potential to automate endtoend business processes. Automation Anywhere EVP for IMEA, Milan Sheth, released his global 2020 RPA (Robotic Process Automation) predictions on Tuesday.

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Opinion | Macroeconomics may not have the answers we are looking foredit

Live Mint

In many technology markets, there are free versions available of high priced software. You can buy Microsoft Office, but you can get a similar service from Google Docs free albeit with some loss of quality. The Internet of Things (IoT), where sensors are being embedded in more and more products, will at some point make the entire service sector support jobs redundant.

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IoT 101: Your Essential Guide to the Internet of Thingsedit

Business Insider

You’ve likely heard the phrase Internet of Things, or IoT, at some point if you have been following any tech news in the last several years. But at the same time, you might be scratching your head figuring out what it is or what it means past a flashy buzzword.

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India Automated An Extractedit

Qrius

In the world of industry though, additional information is improving business decisions and enhancing efficiency. Phrases like internet of things (IoT) and connected devices are used fairly liberally, but their real impact is on the information that they generate. The quality, speed and quantum of information is helping small and large businesses understand their own organizations much better.

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How Internet of Things is redefining corporate strategiesedit

Money Control

The IoT (Internet of Things) is fast becoming an essential source of data; its volumes limitless. Unlimited AI, social networks, applications, sensors and captors, among other things, are only adding to the soaring data and content. By 2030, the total volume produced could reach 1 yottabyte thats a trillion terabytes or a million trillion megabytes.

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Here’s how to make your company Machine Learning readyedit

Money Control

For any machine learning or AI tools to work its magic, the key is to a) understand what machine learning can and cannot do b) ensure that your business is prepared from an analytics point of view to use the machine learning tools for optimization of processes For businesses to accrue the true benefits of machine learning, they need to ensure that they have first put their house in order.

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Cybersecurity firms now at hackers mercy, who will save usedit

The Quint

The new breed of hackers is flexing their muscles and now, cybersecurity firms which aim to safeguard your data are being hit right in their backyard signaling a worrisome trend for enterprises and governments as encryption is proving to be fundamentally flawed.

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AI can help doctors identify cancer cellsedit

The Economic Times

Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern have developed a software tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognize cancer cells from digital pathology images giving clinicians a powerful way of predicting patient outcomes.

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Abundance of cybersecurity tools puts enterprises at riskedit

Tech Radar

To compile its new 2019 Relia Quest Security Technology Sprawl Report, the firm surveyed 400 security decision makers at companies with over 1,000 employees to discover there is a security tool tipping point where the number of cybersecurity solutions becomes overwhelming and increases organizational risk levels.

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4 Top IoT Trends to Watch Out For in 2020edit

Silicon India

By John Roshan Anto

Most of the market research companies such as Gartner, IDC, Forbes, and ABI have predicted that around 20 to 50 billion devices will be connected by 2020, along with a prediction of overall IoT investment to be over $250 billion. Lets check out the top four IoT trends of 2020 that can make a huge impact around the world.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Telangana: E-vehicle taxi service launchededit

Telangana Today

About a year ago, we started working on the concept of electric vehicles and that’s how eyAna came into being. We have partnered with Kinetic Green for manufacturing e-autos, with Okinawa for e-bikes and Exicom for our battery solutions. We are an integrator of e-vehicles and batteries and are operating our own fleet with drivers on our payroll, said G Vijaya Kumar, director, eyAna.

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Electric revolutionedit

The Asian Age

Until recently, whenever we spoke about adapting electric vehicles to the automobile culture of India, many found it superficial. It has been about 14 years since it was last sold in the country but back then an ICE powered it.

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E-buses to ply on 6 routes in Ghaziabad, 1 will connect to Noidaedit

The Times of India

By Abhijay Jha

These cities include Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Prayagraj, Meerut and Varanasi. The six routes are Anand Vihar to Murad Nagar, Anand Vihar to ALT roundabout, Dilshad Garden to Govindpuram, Dilshad Garden to Lal Kuan, Govindpuram Police Line to Noida City Centre and Tilla Mod to New Bus Adda.

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100% Confident: In Nitin Gadkaris Push for Electric Vehicle Adoption, a Promise of Crores of Jobsedit

News 18

The ruling BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was reflected in May with a strong mandate, is adamant that the future of Indias auto industry is electric, and it is steadily sweetening incentives to produce and buy electric vehicles.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Reviewing talent management and skilling in 2019edit

People Matters

Reskilling over recruiting Reskilling has been another industry trend this year. It has been observed that many companies chose to reskill their existing employees instead of recruiting resources from the industry. Mid-level vacancies were offered to existing employees, fostering a culture of leadership development and positive employer branding.

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Artificial Intelligence Specialist and Digital Marketing Specialist emerge as one of the high demanding jobs: LinkedIn Reportedit

Business Insider

In reveals Indias Top 15 Emerging Jobs for 2020; Blockchain Developer and AI Specialist top the list, Digital Marketing Specialist appears on number 13.

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Industry News: Education

Why Indias higher education sector fails to deliveredit

Money Control

He’s also not an exception, and there are Indians doing well for themselves, in scores, in foreign countries, in almost all professional domains. So much so, that Indians have the highest household income in the United States and earn almost the double of the American average.

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Budget provided by Centre through MHRD for education increasing every year in absolute terms: MHRDedit

India Today

With reference to a news item in media wherein it is mentioned that allocation to education is decreasing over time, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on Monday said that the budget provided by the Centre through MHRD and other Departments or Ministries for education and by the States or the Union Territories for education in both absolute terms and as percentage of GDP is increasing every year.

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