December 27, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Tech 2030: Is India ready for what’s next?edit

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. Facial recognition and biometrics may soon make all forms of identity documents redundant. Every breath we take and every move we make is already leaving a data trail for someone to profit from.

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Telcos, busy with financial woes, likely to put 5G on holdedit

Live Mint

By Navadha Pandey

Demand for 5G spectrum will also be restricted because of limited use of even faster internet by consumers and the undeveloped ecosystem around the next generation wireless technology. Given the current uncertainty in the telecom sector, after the Supreme Court ruling on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) definition, operators would have little appetite for spectrum, analysts said.

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Flashback 2019: Top Cybersecurity News That Made Headlinesedit

Analytics India Mag

By Yeshey Rabzyor Yolmo

India is no stranger to cybersecurity threats and attacks. The steady growth of the Indian tech sector has led to the massive growth of digital data inventory. This data accumulation has, in turn, spurred frequent cyberattacks across the country.

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Building an IoT Immune Systemedit

Tech Radar

By Caleb Fenton

Billions of moving parts constantly talking to one another; a living network open to foreign invaders and viruses, all connected to a supercomputer housing a wealth of information. I’m referring to the human body, although you’d be forgiven for seeing the obvious parallels with the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Artificial intelligence tracks down acute myeloid leukaemiaedit

ET Health World

“The transcriptome holds important information about the condition of cells. However, classical diagnostics is based on different data. We, therefore, wanted to find out what an analysis of the transcriptome can achieve using artificial intelligence, that is to say, trainable algorithms,” Schultze said.

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5G Adoption to Push Edge Computing, IoT Usage in India in 2020edit

News 18

“With legacy three-tier architectures already struggling to cope with high volumes of data generated by today’s enterprises, 5G will be the catalyst that drives edge computing and IoT,” Balakrishnan Anantharaman, VP and MD-Sales, India and SAARC, Nutanix, told IANS.

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2019 tech that may help shape the decade ahead for gadgetsedit

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar

The new standard will play an important role in the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) by allowing multiple devices connected to one single network to deliver peak performance simultaneously. Devices with the new started are still very limited but that is expected to change in 2020.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Top Electric Vehicle news in 2019edit

Car Wale

By Nikhil Puthran

Growing environmental concerns have encouraged car manufacturers to work on electric vehicle development. Hyundai introduced the Kona electric vehicle in the country earlier this year, while leading car manufacturers like Volkswagen, Maruti Suzuki, Kia and others have been working on electric vehicle development.

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Electric vehicle firms use fear of fines as a USP for selling ebikesedit

Deccan Chronicle

By Madhusudan Sahoo

Some domestic electric vehicle (EV) makers have a unique selling point (USP) for their product — that it doesn’t require a driving licence, motor insurance, helmet or even registration to ride their vehicles on the roads, if the vehicle was powdered with 350-watt batteries and the speed limit does not cross 25 kmph.

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Electric 3-wheeler market hots up as cos look at alternate mobilityedit

The Times of India

By Nandini Sengupta

First, Chetan Maini co-founded Sun Mobility announced its tieup with Piaggio to launch electric Ape three wheeler variants on their swappable battery architecture. Now Bengaluru-based Altigreen is all set to roll out cargo and passenger three-wheelers based on their own patented drivetrain platform through ‘multiple’ OEM partnerships.

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Auto Sector Applauds Delhi’s New EV Policyedit

The Morning Standard

By Arshad Khan

We appreciate the purchase incentives provided by the government along with subsidised interest rates and open permit systems for three-wheelers,” Mahesh Babu, CEO, Mahindra Electric, said.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Decoding HR’s Focus in 2020edit

People Matters

Personalized L&D experience Keeping in mind the growing demand for upskilling and reskilling, HR managers have now started emphasizing more on providing personalized L&D experiences to the employees that are uniquely tailored to their interests, behaviors, and goals

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Survey: AI workforce doubled in 2019, but vacancies remainedit

Business Standard

Even though the number of artificial intelligence (AI) professionals nearly doubled in 2019, there is still a dearth or of quality talent, with about 2,500 Ai-related jobs remaining unfulfilled, said education technology firm Great learning

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HR and Hiring trends in IoT industryedit

People Matters

The internet of things (IoT) industry is a unique juxtaposition of two fundamentally different industries – mechanical and connectivity. While the gestation period of projects in the mechanical industry might range from months to years, the connectivity industry has micro-sized projects with the gestation period in days and skill requirements transforming dramatically

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Engineering students trained in AI get better pay: Studyedit

The New Indian Express

The core skills that companies are seeking include Statistics, Machine-Learning basics, Python, SQL and Tableau. The State government is all set to officially declare 2020 as the ‘Year of AI’ on January 2, with officials stating that facilities such as Centre of Excellence on Artificial Intelligence are on the anvil as part of the initiative.

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Industry News: Education

HRD minister launches 5 documents covering 5 verticals of quality mandate in higher education institutionsedit

ANI News

The release said that quality mandate aims at evolving higher education system to equip country’s next-generation with vital skills, knowledge and ethics for leading a rewarding life. The minister said that student evaluation plays a crucial role in improving the quality of higher education in the country.

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AI, Blockchain to Reshape Education Sector in 2020edit

CXO Today

With the increased usage of data across the enterprise, the chief data officer’s (CDO) mindset needs to shift from focusing on data and analytics projects and programs to driving a product-centric organization, advises a new Gartner research report. This new CDO, according to Gartner can be called CDO 4.0.

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