December 23, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

What is Deep Learning Everything you need to knowedit

Tech Radar

Deep learning, which is a branch of artificial intelligence, aims to replicate our ability to learn and evolve in machines. At the end of the day, deep learning allows computers to take in new information, decipher it, and produce an output all without humans needing to be involved in the process.

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Network Automation: Advancement and Future Prospectsedit

Analytics Insight

Some part of exploring the universe of New IT is understanding and capitalizing by New Network. Today, intent based networking capabilities are helping organizations keep pace with the demands of digital and cloud change. In any case, adequately utilizing those capabilities which look to intently and constantly align the enterprise network with business needs requires another mentality and way to deal with the network concentrated on automation.

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Most Indian firms not prepared for hacking risks: Reportedit

CRN

As hackers evolve new mechanisms to infliterate into systems, 61 per cent Indian enterprises say the risk of cyber attacks is stalling their digitalisation progress, a new report has said. Moreover, 52 per cent of Indian organisations think that cybersecurity is the responsibility of their cloud service provider, said a study by leading cybersecurity firm Forcepoint prepared along with Frost & Sullivan.

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How To Start Your Career In Cybersecurity In 2020edit

Analytics India Mag

2019 saw a lot of online data breaches and ransomware attacks that shocked the world. When so much is being done online and stored onto the cloud, the threat of cyber attacks is always looming around. The security has to be monitored constantly and should always be provided with regular updates.

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A big year for Robotic Process Automationedit

Tech Radar

Next year is going to be a momentous year for Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This is the process of automating mundane tasks such as taking data from one file and entering it into a business application like CRM software. Its about computerising repetitive tasks that are an inefficient use of peoples time.

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67% say AI use can increase sales by online retailers: Surveyedit

Express Computer

When it comes to technologies like automation and artificial intelligence (AI), 67 per cent people say the prospect of AI being used to increase sales and profits by online retailers, if that use resulted in a better customer experience, according to a new survey.

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2020 Predictions: Paving the way for the Next Data Decadeedit

Express Computer

The Edge continues to evolve with many working hard to define exactly what it is and where it exists. Once limited to the Internet of Things (IoT), its hard to find any systems, applications, services people and places that aren’t connected. The edge is emerging in many places and its going to expand with enterprise organizations leading the way, delivering the IT infrastructure to support it.

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Al-powered central data repository for public soonedit

The Financial Express

The Ministry Of electronics and IT (MeitY) is working on a project to develop a platform that will act as a repository of all publicly shareable data, information, tools, literature, etc. It will leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to aid individuals, industry and academia to conduct studies, training or research for developing commercial and non-commercial solutions devoted to socio-economic well being.

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AI can detect blood canceredit

The New Indian Express

Artificial Intelligence can help detect one of the most common forms of blood cancer — acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) — with high reliability, new research has found. Their approach, based on the analysis of the gene activity of cells found in the blood, could support conventional diagnostics and possibly accelerate the beginning of therapy, said the study published in the journal iScience.

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The challenges to digital transformationedit

The Financial Express

The Digital Trans Formation journey of Indian firms is getting increasingly hindered by cyber attacks.According to a study undertaken by IT security firm Forcepoint along with IT consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan,95% of companies have embarked on a digital transformation journey, however, 61% of respondents shared that the risk of cyber attacks is stalling their digitalisation progress.

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Opinion | Ease the path for wide 5G network adoptionedit

Live Mint

While telecom firms may balk at high spectrum costs, as they should, these would be outweighed by the economy wide benefits of a transition to 5G. Lets smoothen the way The Digital Communications Commission last week announced base prices for airwaves that telecommunications companies can bid for to expand their fourth generation or 4G networks and roll out 5G services.

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Karnataka preferred stop for foreign patientsedit

The Times of India

We need to look out for the growth of digital technology like electronic medical records, telemedicines, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare, Singh added. Download The Times of India News App for Latest City News.

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Enabling a wave OF changeedit

The Economic Times

Futuristic technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning (ML), big data analytics, robotic process automation (RPA) and 3D printing are increasingly becoming mainstream, cutting across industries and changing the talent mix.

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Data policy tweaks set to keep India Inc busy in 2020edit

The Economic Times

Many of these are in various stages of drafting and consultation. Also, India could probably see a lot more debate around regulatory overlaps among the Ministry of Electronics and IT, Ministry of Information and Broadcast and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Will not allow driverless cars in India: Gadkariedit

The Economic Times

The government had in July this year proposed amendments to the motor vehicle norms to allow scrapping of vehicles older than 15 years in a bid to spur adoption of electric vehicles. In a draft notification, the government proposed renewal of fitness certificates for vehicles older than 15 years every six months instead of the current timeframe of one year.

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Pvt parking spaces to have EV charging stationsedit

Deccan Herald

Will private parking spaces, including shopping malls and apartments, will have electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The government will soon issue an order making such infrastructure compulsory.

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EESL Signs MoU to Promote E-Mobility in South Indiaedit

Saur Energy

The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of PSUs under the Ministry of Power, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Baghirathi Sustainability India to explore the possibilities of promoting e-mobility and electric vehicles in India.

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Tickling Triviaedit

Millennium Post

Electric vehicles are one of the buzzwords of the modern-day the 21 st Century answer to a lack of sustainability that pervades the whole connected mass of the transportation industry. Elon Musk makes the electric car look like the conscientious choice but as is the case with all buzzwords, all is not as it seems.

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5 Themes To Bet On In 2020edit

The Hindu Business Line

In the same vein, large-cap auto stocks such as Maruti Suzuki India, Eicher Motors and Hero MotoCorp are trading at valuations far below the long-term averages, making it an apt time to begin accumulating them in corrections. With auto majors indicating that the consumer’s intention to buy passenger cars and two-wheelers is improving, and if the BS-VI hump is crossed in March 2020, the prospects can begin to look up.

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New Electric Vehicles To Light Up Auto Sector In 2020edit

Mail Today

The past week saw the launch of two models of electric vehicles by international automotive companies in India. MG Motors has unveiled the ZS electric SUV in India, its second offering in the country. It is an all-electric SUV based on MG ZS sold in other parts of the world. MG Motors will, however, sell only the electric variant of ZS in India.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Govt. Will Spend Rs 436 Crore To Reskill 4 Lakh IT Employees: These Skills Will Be Coverededit

Trak

We all know that reskilling is the need of the hour, for IT professions in India. Due to the emergence of new technologies, and new ways of doing business, more and more IT employees are getting redundant.

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52% employees say recruiters will prefer experienced professionals over millennials: TimesJobs surveyedit

The Times of India

With upskilling becoming the key requirement to stay relevant at work floors, about 51% of respondents said that they will learn things related to a new work domain, the survey further noted. About 47% of the surveyed employees said that innovation is the most sought after soft skill now, followed by decision making ability as voted by 30% employees.

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Success at work: 6 key skills you need to succeed in the coming decadeedit

The Economic Times

T20 in cricket or Year 2020 for careers The T20 format changed the face of cricket and how players approached the game. Now, the coming decade beginning 2020 will transform the future of work and how careers are built and broken more than any other time in human history.

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Standing out in changing landscape of work & talentedit

People Matters

Focus on building strong Internal Mobility system also grew in 2019 because it costs less than half of hiring a lateral candidate, gives HR the flexibility to extend opportunities across levels and improves competitive advantage. This trend has caught on across several countries, as suggested in a global Deloitte. Insights study.

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Job mkt may stay muted next yearedit

The Times of India

Hit by the falling rate of economic growth in 2019, the job market may remain muted in the new year as well in terms of workforce expansion and salary hikes as more and more companies are expected to prefer up-skilling of existing staff rather than hiring new ones, experts feel.

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Wipro, Nasscom launch platform to skill 10,000 engineering students in newage technologiesedit

The Indian Express

The programme has now been extended to students directly through Future Skills, which is a new age platform built to bridge the industry academia skill gap and help students keep pace with the emerging technologies Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) to make them future ready, Wipro said in a statement.

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Headcount expansion loses currency, companies to promote upskilling in 2020: Expertsedit

The Financial Express

Experts further said for the skillset which is driven by analytics related jobs the increment will be higher, while the jobs which has been taken over by automation may have a lower salary increment in the range of 68 per cent.

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Industry News: Education

A great past ‘can’t fix a lousy presentedit

The Financial Express

If India’s ancestors knew so much, it is galling that just one or two Indian universities are in the world’s top 500. For several years now, the government has been talking about education reforms to free up universities from the UGC/AICTE yoke, but precious little has happened so far; indeed, the IIMs and IITs have been told to start implementing caste based reservations in the faculty.

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The Years Top 10 Higher Education Storiesedit

Forbes

In the largest college admissions scandal in history, a federal investigation led to approximately 50 indictments of wealthy parents and their co-conspirators who used a variety of nefarious schemes, including bribes, fraudulent SAT/ACT scores, and faked athletic resumes to gain their children’s admission to elite colleges.

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