December 26, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Year in Review: Why 5G remained a distant dream for India in 2019 tooedit

Business Standard

5G is expected to bring some key improvements to the current generation of mobile networks with regard to data transfer speed, latency and throughput. Besides, the next generation mobile network is also expected to enable the full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, bringing to reality the concept of connected homes, office spaces, vehicles, and more.

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Tech 2030: Is India ready for whats nextedit

Business Standard

Touchscreens and voice control rule our lives. Automation and AI are common place technologies. Not just people, the internet of things allows billions of inanimate objects to now talk to each other Pranjal Sharma

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Report: Top AI Developments That Took Place in 2019edit

Analytics Insight

Advancements in AI, in particular, have been incredible in 2019 be it in the field of machine learning, neural networks, vision, natural language processing (NLP), and certain others. The year saw the progress in technology that has opened new doors for further improvement of things that one couldn’t have imagined a few years back.

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Global AI in auto insurance market expected to reach $ 5.5 billion by 2027: Reportedit

The Economic Times

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the buzz that is making waves in practically every segment of the various industries. With the increasing adoption of AI in most of the industries, AI has significantly found its way in the automotive sector.

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Dangers of new tech: Top cybersecurity trends that will shape 2020edit

The Financial Express

So, while biometric authentication is a very good way to authenticate a user to a device, organisations must be aware that every time that happens, that biometric data must be encrypted and the assets behind the authentication are secure.

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The Future Is Here Tech Trends In 2020edit

The Times of India

Technology, however advanced, cannot remain the purview of a handful. These technologies are not new, but they are coming of age and the trend will only intensify year-on year. Everything is working in a direction to ensure that the common man has ease of use, including accessibility & affordability, just as a large organisation has.

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Paving the way for the Next Data Decadeedit

The Times of India

Sustainable innovation will continue to take centre stage, as organisations like ours want to ensure the impact they have in the world doesn’t come with a dangerous one on the planet. Greater investments in reuse and recycling for closed-loop innovation will accelerate – hardware becomes smaller and more efficient and built with recycled and reclaimed goods – minimising e-waste and maximising already existing materials.

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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 to take big 5G leap in 2020 but mass adoption far awayedit

Free Press Journal

With fifth generation cellular network technology (5G) round the corner that allows data transfer at a 10 times faster rate than 4G, India is set to witness major disruptions across industries in 2020 with greater adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and advances computing at the edge, leading industry experts said on Tuesday

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IN 2020, We Should All Learn To Speak Machineedit

The Times of India

The mass adoption of AI and machine learning today is creating hyper-optimised experiences. This is being delivered by data-fed algorithms in the cloud that have segmented us down to the individual level. And because it’s a computational machine on the other end that never gets tired, it’s going to be nearly impossible to escape their reach

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How private firms are helping police departments to solve cybercrimesedit

Deccan Chronicle

India reported slightly more than 313,000 cybersecurity incidents till October this year. India recorded over 9,500, 11,500 and 12,000 cases of cybercrime in 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively. India recorded over 9,500, 11,500 and 12,000 cases of cybercrime in 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

SIAM, SMEV welcome electric vehicle policy of Delhi govtedit

The Economic Times

Auto industry body SIAM on Tuesday said the electric vehicle policy announced by the Delhi government would help encourage consumers to adopt electric vehicles. Some of the welcome announcements in the policy include measures which would make electric vehicles affordable and acceptable, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) Director General Rajesh Menon said in a statement.

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Electric vehicles: The future of mass commuteedit

The Financial Express

By Pankaj M Munjal

With global warming and environment becoming major concerns, governments across the world are putting increased thrust on the need for phasing out petrol/diesel vehicles. While electric vehicles (EVs) have been in the pipeline for decades, it is only now that these are emerging as a viable alternative to petrol/diesel vehicles.

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Industry seeks GST cut, sops for electric vehicles in Budgetedit

The New Indian Express

Hit hard by the ongoing economic slowdown, the automobile industry is pinning hopes on the upcoming Budget to revive fortunes. The industry has demanded more sops for electric vehicle, increased rural spending and more disposable income in the hands of people. “The auto sector is in bad shape.

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Delhi EV Policy To Offer Up To Rs 1.5 Lakh Subsidy On Vehicles, 100% On Charging Equipmentedit

India Times

Delhi government has finally passed the electric vehicle policy for the capital, with an aim to induct up to 5 lakh electric vehicles in the region by 2024. With respect to the total vehicles in the area, the policy will aim up to 25 percent of these to be electric by the mentioned period. For this, Delhi government will also be providing subsidies going forward.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Corporates go the extra mile to weed out inefficient reskillingedit

The Times of India

By Aparna Desikan

Mere reskilling is no longer the key to an assured job as recruiters smell rat with more fly-by-night operators spring on the horizon. For starters, candidates who have put in less than 40 to 50 hours of e-learning will not even be considered for an interview. Even if they get called in, the grilling is extra.

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Over 50 pc job seekers consider enhancing knowledge, skills as top priority: reportedit

Deccan Chronicle

With such a small percentage (2.62 per cent) of highly agile learners as compared with low learning agility (25 per cent), not only will the private sector need to come up with creative & effective ways of quickly upskilling or re-skilling their currently employed talent, but also the policymakers will have to look at new education methods to bridge the gap and reverse this trend.

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Who is afraid of automation displacing jobsedit

Live Mint

The perceived threat of robots stealing human jobs has become so real that there are now blogs and websites such as willrobotstakemyjob.com and replacedbyrobots.info that tell you the likelihood of your job being stolen by robots or being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI)enabled technology.

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IoT can become Indias next employment engineedit

The Economic Times

Today, there are several companies, particularly the established ones that are IoT enabling their product lines and others that are talking about a full scale digital transformation journey for their customers with IoT being an integral part of it.

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AI workforce doubles in ’19: Reportedit

The Times of India

India doubled its artificial intelligence (AI) workforce in 2019 following advancement in technology and adoption of business intelligence, yet there are a large number of vacancies across sectors due to talent gap, according to a study.

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