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Amazon postpones Prime Day sale in India amid surge in Covid-19 cases

Amazon’s flagship Prime Day sale, which is scheduled to take place globally in June, has been postponed in India due to a surge in Covid-19 cases across the country in the second wave of the outbreak. The Prime Day sale will not be conducted in India and Canada in June due to the spreading infections, even as Amazon goes ahead with plans to host the event in markets including the United States, UK, Germany, France and Spain. A spokesperson for Amazon India confirmed to ET that the company had decided…

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India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices

India previously allowed companies to self-declare wireless equipment, a move that made imports easier, but new rules in March 2019 mandated firms to seek government approval. India has held up approvals for import of wifi modules from China for months, driving companies such as U.S. computer makers Dell and HP and China’s Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Lenovo to delay product launches in a key growth market, two industry sources said. Imports from China of finished electronic devices – like bluetooth speakers, wireless earphones, smartphones, smartwatches and laptops – containing wifi…

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WhatsApp scraps deadline for accepting privacy policy terms

New Delhi, PTI: WhatsApp has scrapped its May 15 deadline for users to accept its controversial privacy policy update and said not accepting the terms will not lead to deletion of accounts. WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook. A WhatsApp spokesperson told PTI that no accounts will be deleted on May 15 for not accepting the policy update. “No accounts will be deleted on May 15 because of this update and no one in India will lose functionality of…

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AICTE releases academic calendar 2021-22. Check Details Here

New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Thursday released the tentative academic calendar for the year 2021-22. It stated that the process of the grant of approval for the institutions, other than the standalone PGDM and PGCM colleges, will be completed by June 30. Further, the affiliation process by the respective universities and boards have to be completed by July 15. For PGDM/PGCM institutions, the last date for admission is July 10, while for the open and distance learning/online learning mode the last date for admission…

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IIIT-Delhi introduce part-time PG diploma in Data Science and AI

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, in collaboration with IBM has launched a nine-month-long PG Diploma in Data Science and AI (PGDDS&AI). The entire programme will be conducted online mode on the weekends. The courses will be taught by IIIT-D faculty members, as well as IBM leaders in Analytics. The 9-month long diploma course will have 450 hours of learning including online interactive sessions of 310 hours and required self-study and project work of 140 hours. The course will have 30 credits and a term project. The process…

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IITs, NITs to postpone offline exams, Education Ministry directs

In a letter addressed to heads of all centrally-funded institutions, Higher Education secretary Amit Khare said the decision on examinations will be reviewed again in the first week of June, 2021. The Education Ministry has directed IITs, NITs, all centrally-funded educational institutions (CFTIs) to defer their offline examinations scheduled this month. The ministry, however, said that online exams can continue. The ministry’s request comes in the midst of worsening Covid-19 pandemic situation. Amid the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education on May 3 asked all the centrally-funded…

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Joins Global Task Force Steering Committee on Pandemic Response

On last Thursday, three Indian-American CEOs Sundar Pichai from Google, Punit Renjen from Deloitte, and Shantanu Narayen from Adobe have joined the steering committee of the Global Task Force on Pandemic Response, which is overseeing an unprecedented corporate sector initiative to help India successfully fight COVID19. The task force is a newly formed public-private partnership organised by the US Chamber of Commerce and supported by Business Roundtable. It is working with the Chamber’s US-India Business Council and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to take immediate actions to help address the…

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AICRA ties up with the National Productivity Council for providing training services for Industry 4.0 !!

New Delhi: India had recognized the importance of Industry4.0 quite early. The government had announced that they are working towards the establishment of this scheme. From the highest level, there have been exhortations to move towards Industry 4.0. There have been several schemes to incentivize investment into data technologies. The government is promoting its organizations to help and handhold Industry and academia on this journey to achieve the ATMANIBHAR BHARAT mission. To achieve the mission of Atmanirbhar Bharat-Industry 4.0, National Productivity Council (NPC) and All India Council for Robotics and…

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New system uses floor vibrations to detect building occupants !!

Thanks to a new system developed at EPFL, building owners can detect the number of occupants and track their movement using sensors installed on floor slabs. This novel approach could be particularly useful for enhancing safety in retirement homes or managing buildings’ energy is use more efficiently. Many buildings, manufacturing sites, shopping malls and other public spaces are equipped with occupant detection systems. These systems are generally rely on cameras or occupants’ mobile phones. Such technologies are infringe on privacy and may not function in emergencies such as fires. Scientists…

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3-D hand pose estimation using a wrist-worn camera !!

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of St Andrews and the University of New South Wales have developed a wrist-worn device for 3-D hand pose estimation. The system consists of all camera that captures  all the images of the back of the hand, and is supported by a neural network called DorsalNet which can accurately recognize dynamic gestures. Being able to track hand gestures is of crucial importance in advancing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) devices that are…

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