Internet Archive Sued by Publishers Over Scanning of Books!!

Four of United State’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright in fringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than million scanned works to the public, including such as favorites  Toni Morrison’s ‘Song of Solomon’, Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Blink’ and Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” “Without  license and any payment to authors or publishers, Internet Archive scans print books, uploads these illegally scanned books to its servers, and distributes verbatim digital copies of the books in whole via public-facing websites,” according to papers filed Monday is federal…

Impact on the lives of India’s hardworking farmers, MSME sector and those working as street vendors!!

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has taken historic decisions  that will have a transformative impact on the lives of India’s hardworking farmers, MSME sector and those working as street vendors. Helping hand to MSMEs: 1. Upward revision of MSME Definition- It has been decided that decided to further increase the limit for medium manufacturing and service units. Now it will be Rs. 50 crore of investment and Rs. 250 crore of turnover. It has also been decided that the turnover with respect to exports…

Three more States included in One Nation One Card scheme!!

The hon’ble Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan announced the inclusion of three more states namely – Odisha, Sikkim and Mizoram in the scheme on ‘Integrated Management of Public Distribution System’ (IM-PDS).Under this system nation-wide portability of the benefits under NFSA through “One Nation One Ration Card” plan is implemented to enable the NFSA ration card holders to lift their entitled quota of subsidised foodgrains from any ePoS enabled FPS of their choice anywhere in the country, by using the existing/same ration card…

Hon’ble Prime Minister Launches CHAMPIONS, a technology platform to empower MSMEs

Hon’ble Prime Minister Launches CHAMPIONS, a technology platform to empower MSMEs : Further, Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has launched the technology platform CHAMPIONS which stands for Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength. As the name suggests, the portal is basically for making the smaller units big by solving their grievances, encouraging, supporting, helping and handholding. It is a real one-stop-shop solution of MSME Ministry. This ICT based system is set up to help the MSMEs in present difficult situation and…

MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION

Machine-to-machine communication (M2M): It determines “machines communicating, exchanging data, without human interfacing or interaction”. It is accomplished by wired or wireless networks. It incorporates serial connection, power line connection, or wireless communication in the industrial internet of things (IoT). M2M comprises of the components that include sensors, RFID, a WI-FI or cellular communication links and autonomic computing software. Everything is getting connected: it capacitates the communication between people, machines and devices. It paramount’s the world by the way they operate. Machine-to-machine technologies have the ability to connect millions of devices…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATES DRUG DISCOVERY

The convergence of mind and matter, the coming together of digital and material sciences lies at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. From search algorithms to self driving cars, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that enables machines to work and think like humans. Generally viewed as the simulation of human intelligence by machines, the AI comprises of learning, reasoning, problem solving, planning and self correction. Machines are increasingly going beyond the physical repetitive work and include planning, strategising and decision making…

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY HAS REACHED THE POSITION OF SUPERIORITY

The term wearable technology consists of two words. The first word is wearable and the second word is technology. The word wearable simply implies something that can be worn on the body. Technology has various definitions depending on the way people take it. It can mean some engineering work, when we explain in the terms of tools and mechanism. Talking in sense of marketing and industry, it can be a product or service, which can ease or simplify human life. In some other context, it can also mean something, which…

INTERNET OF THINGS: A SIMPLE EXPLANATION

The internet isn’t just about computers or cell phones anymore. Now a days, all kinds of everyday objects can connect to the internet including cars, air conditioners, microwave and even your shoes. This is called as the Internet of Things. One might wonder why we need to connect our shoes to the internet. Well the answer is that shoes when connected to the internet have the ability to collect the number steps you took while jogging this morning or while going for work and can send the data to another…

INDUSTRIAL ROBOT: HANDLES HIGH-RISK JOB WITH EASE

In general dangerous and difficult jobs are done by industrial robots. They are designed to perform such repetitive and dangerous work, which may risk human life when performed by a human being. The repetitive job when performed by a human being can vary in quality from time-to-time but the same kind of job, when performed by a machine, will give the accurate quality of performance. In such robots, the performance of robotic action is best and gives the result which is perfect in all respect. To make the result perfect…

POLICY WATCH – INTERDISCIPLINARY CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is an orchestration of computers and physical systems. CPS combines various models including engineering and environmental, civil, electrical, biomedical, chemical with methods of computer science. However, these models and methods do not combine easily so, CPS consequently constitutes a new engineering branch, which demands its own models and methods. The “cyber-physical systems” word emerged during 2006 and was coined by Helen Gill at the National Science Foundation in the United States. Another related term “cyberspace” is attributed to William Gibson, who used the term in the…