Archives for January, 2019

31 Jan

How AI & Automation Has Overhauled The Shipping Industry

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Global cyber threats alongside sustained pressures over environmental regulations have always been a challenge for the shipping industry which made digitisation an indispensable alternative for the maritime industry. All over the world, major shipping industries have been keen on improvising systems to nurture and innovation and find solutions to these concerns. When it comes global…

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31 Jan

Turing Award Winner Judea Pearl Believes To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Researchers Should Teach Them Cause & Effect

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Judea Pearl has been a prominent figure, an  ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner computer science’s highest honour, a person who made it possible to create a viable ecosystem for Artificial Intelligence to thrive. That what we are seeing today is the causal effect of the efforts that he led in the 1980s to allow machines…

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30 Jan

Can Nanotechnology Build The AI Of The Future?

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Nanotechnology is one of the biggest fields of emerging technologies, seeing application in various fields such as agriculture, medicine and engineering. However, many, including prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil, have said that nanotechnology will be the tool that AI will use to achieve the ‘singularity’. While such a vision is still in the future, technology today…

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30 Jan

The Out Of Africa Inhabitants Are The New Species of Hominids, Which AI Accidentally Discovered

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A scientific finding that’s cropping up perhaps upstage the globally believed theory of evolution. Scientists and evolutionary biologists from Estonia and Spain have used deep learning to build a revolutionary model for gauging human evolutionary patterns. Neanderthals and Denisovan bred with humans have always been a well-known fact, but now a third species has been…

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30 Jan

Harvard’s Tiny RoboBee Is Exactly Like The Scary Bees From Black Mirror

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Since time immemorial, robot developers have long looked at nature for inspiration. When designing robot mechanisms and movement, animals and human motor functions provide insight into the optimal movement that many robotic engineers had the curiosity to always try to replicate it. In the past 25 years, a small design lab at Harvard has been…

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29 Jan

How Oracle Is Pushing The Adoption Of SaaS In Finance & HR: Guruprasad Gaonkar, APAC SaaS Leader, Oracle

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Finance and HR are like two opposite ends of the world — they are different in terms of several things. However, despite the differences, these two departments are dependent on one another and need each other to achieve the ultimate goals of an organisation. To have a clearer view of this entire scenario, Analytics India…

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29 Jan

Top Five Ways In Which Chatbots Are Improving Hospitality Sector

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The hospitality industry has been one of the biggest adopters of emerging technologies. One such technology that has been adopted widely is voice assistant and chatbots. Adoption of these techniques has been on a rise and brands have been extensively using the technologies for various use cases. Right from hotel booking to flight schedules, the…

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29 Jan

5 Ways AI Is Used By Lawmakers For Crime Prevention In India

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AI is set to revolutionise the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools in India. Some of the recent applications of AI are in the area of fingerprint analysis, recreating a face from the skull, creating images from pieces, and modern forensic methods. In this article, we list 5 ways AI is being used by lawmakers…

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29 Jan

Is Big Data The Biggest Game-Changer In The Online Gambling Industry?

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Online gambling has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry today and according to Statista, in 2015, the online gaming industry had a volume of $37.91 billion and this figure was forecasted to increase to 59.79 billion U.S. dollars in 2020.  Talking about traditional gambling, it is still a step ahead than online gambling. However, one…

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29 Jan

Bosch Makes Its First India Investment In IISc SpinOff SimYog Technologies

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Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions have announced its first venture investment in India in Bengaluru-based startup SimYog Technologies incubated in IISc. IISc-based SimYog has raised ₹ 6.3 Cr in a funding round with participation from early-stage venture capital firm Ideaspring Capital. “In the automotive sector 20 years ago, the bill of materials was largely…

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