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Blockchain technology took some time to find its true potential. It has always been associated with digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. This technology has since been extrapolated for use in other industries, but there is still more potential here. In India especially, blockchain is at a very nascent stage. But states like Andhra…
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week gave a keynote address at the Singapore FinTech Festival. He emphasised the importance of fintech in the global economy and said that it should be a movement that can improve the lives of the world’s most marginalised people. “There is an explosion of fintech innovation and enterprise in India. It has…
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Automation Anywhere, a Robotic Process Automation startup, announced that they have raised $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund. The funding is subject to regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions and is an expansion to the company’s Series A round announced in July, bringing the financing to over $500 million. RPA enables…
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Andrew Ng, one of the foremost artificial intelligence experts, has been working hard to train and more professionals on a large scale. An early adopter of AI, Ng has been trying to bring New Tech to the masses through his MOOC platform Coursera. Now earlier this week, Ng announced the launch of a new course AI…
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Mindtree, a technology services and digital transformation company, announced on Wednesday that they had created an endowment focused on artificial intelligence research with the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc). This partnership is aimed at facilitating teaching and research for AI in both data sciences and Natural Language Processing (NLP). A statement published by Mindtree…
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In a bid to challenge and encourage the scientific community, NASA is planning to launch a public outreach programme to invite help to design and build a self-assembling robot with artificial intelligence. This robot will be then sent to explore the surface of the moon. In a conversation with a newswire, William Harris, CEO of…
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In a bid to challenge and encourage the scientific community, NASA is planning to launch a public outreach programme to invite help to design and build a self-assembling robot with artificial intelligence. This robot will be then sent to explore the surface of the moon. In a conversation with a newswire, William Harris, CEO of…
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The Government of Maharashtra on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the NITI Aayog and Wadhwani AI group to launch the International Centre for Transformational Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) focusing on the rural healthcare. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that this project was aimed at a greater collaboration in the healthcare sector. ICTAI is to focus…
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The Government of Maharashtra on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the NITI Aayog and Wadhwani AI group to launch the International Centre for Transformational Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) focusing on the rural healthcare. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that this project was aimed at a greater collaboration in the healthcare sector. ICTAI is to focus…
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Marvel Comics Visionary Stan Lee Imagined A World Full Of Possibilities, Including An AI Sidekick
Be it a fan from any “universe”, on 12 November 2018, all comic book buffs mourned the death of Stan Lee, the smiling, cocky Marvel Comics patriarch who helped usher in a new era of superhero storytelling. The legendary writer who also donned many other hats as editor, publisher and producer, was the creator of…
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