If it hadn’t adopted new technology the way it did, Freshokartz, a Jaipur-based e-commerce marketplace for fruits & vegetables that directly procures produce from farms, would have counted itself among the many casualties of the overnight lockdown. “Our company’s nature of work is to meet farmers in person and resolve their farming issues,” founder and CEO Rajendra Lora, adding how at the beginning of the lockdown it became almost impossible to reach out to the farmers because of the restrictions on inter-state travel. While it had been using WhatsApp to…
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West Bengal Introduces Software to Keep Track of Staff Working From Home !!
The West Bengal government has come up with a Software to monitor the performance of its employees working from home amid the COVID-19 scenario, a senior official said on Monday. The state’s department of finance is using the software on an experimental basis, he said. “If the results are satisfactory, we will put this to use in other departments,” the official said. State government employees should not violate office hours “thinking that it will get unnoticed because he/she is at home,” he added. “The employees have to log in to…
Read MoreHow Machine Learning, A.I. Might Change Education !!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as computer vision and Machine Learning (ML) are providing new ways to revolutionize learning and skills training at universities. From doctorate degrees in Machine Learning (ML) to bots that aid the work of teachers, there’s accelerating intrerest at the college level in A.I. and ML. Research firm TechNavio projects that the AI, market in education will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of close to 48% from 2018 to 2022 (the study also noted the role of chatbots in enhancing learning—hopefully that technology pans…
Read MoreDigital is the Key to Unlock this Disruption !!
Mumbai: The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated several global business trends in favour of digitalization & focussing on digital avenues and collaborating beyond boundaries will be the stepping stones for the global economy to climb out of this disruption, said the keynote speakers at ET Unwired Reimagining Business Series on Thursday. Sir Martin Sorrell, executive chairman, S4 Capital and founder WPP, said that India is in the midst of a shopping revolution. The multi-billion-dollar investments by Facebook and several others in the telecom-technology-commerce triple play of Jio Platforms show that. “People…
Read MoreThese robotic dogs take fetch to a whole new level !!
Package delivery may be going to the dogs.In the race to automate the delivery of packages and food in urban areas, most companies have been focusing on wheeled robots. But the German automotive company Continental has another idea. At the consumer Electronics in Las Vegas last week, it showed off a four-legged delivery robot designed to walk packages right to customers’ front doors. In demonstrations at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the battery-powered ANYmal Robot — made by Swiss robotics manufacturer ANYbotics — hopped out of Continental’s CUbE autonomous vehicle, stepped…
Read MoreThe Rise Of Data : Data Science , Big Data And Data Analytics For Seamless Buisness Operations !!
Data, a four-letter word is the forerunner of a digital economy. Structured & unstructured data through emails, financial transaction numbers, audio files, web pages, business documents, and social media messages are mined to harness intelligent insights. Data forms the core of AI-powered Machine learning models. You will be surprised to know that humans generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, broken to 1.7 megabytes in just a second. Research estimates that over 6 billion smartphone users are looking at some form of data, and over 50 billion…
Read MoreUse of AI And VR In The Indian Education Sector !!
It’s not hot news that India has an intense lack of teachers at elementary, secondary and even at the more elevated levels of schools. As indicated by the numbers given by the Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry of India in 2016, there is a lack of 1 million educators across the nation. In Universities & Colleges, there is an endless deficiency of personnel and the issue of finding qualified individuals to fill this gap has turned out to be much more entangled. In such a situation, in what manner…
Read MoreSkill India to be expanded to include AI, IoT !!
In a move that will skill and re-skill millions of Indian youth to cater to new age technology and job roles, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said government will now focus on new age skills like Artificial Intelligence (AL) , Internet of Things (IoT) , Machine Learning (ML) to help them get jobs overseas. FM Sitharaman tabled the first union budget of Narendra Modi government. In her speech, the FM said focus under Skill India mission will be to train youth in different languages to prepare them for global jobs. Skills development…
Read MoreUS student’s app offers roadmap to Singapore contact tracing tech !!
Singapore kicked off a global rush to develop a contact tracing apps for the novel covid-19 when the city-state launched an apparently new system in March. But the project actually drew inspiration from a 2014 U.S. high school project that won an international prize but found no backers – until now. It all started when Rohan Suri created an app at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia, to tell his mom to leave home for the bus stop when he was seven minutes away. As the Ebola epidemic ravaged western Africa at…
Read More5G fixed wireless access most desirable 5G use case among telecom operators, Nokia study !!
NEW DELHI: 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is the most desirable 5G use case amongst consumers globally, a study by telecom gear maker Nokia said on Wednesday. The study, which was conducted by Park Associates, surveyed 3,000 people in UK, US, and South Korea to examine the consumer understanding and demand for 5G services across 6 different use cases, including autonomous vehicles, video surveillance and immersive technologies. The study further indicated that there is an opportunity for mobile operators to compete with broadband providers by offering FWA to homes and…
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