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Hygge Energy, pronounced as ‘Hoo-gah Energy’, is a blockchain energy start-up that aims to change electricity generation and distribution. In a conversation with EFY’s Sharad Bhowmick, the founder and CEO of Hygge Energy, Prateek Saxena emphasized the importance of local generation and absorption of clean energy to boost the EV charging infrastructure in developing countries. Here are some excerpts from the interview… Read the full interview at:  https://www.electronicsforu.com/market-verticals/power-electronics/henergy-blockchain-to-aid-ev-charging

 

  As crypto booms, exchanges need a variety of engineers TNN | Oct 6, 2021, 08.04 AM IST The world is still divided on whether cryptocurrencies will survive. But for now, there’s intense action in the field. Including in India. Market research firms have put Indians among the biggest users and holders of cryptocurrency. Several cryptocurrency exchanges – which allow you to trade in cryptocurrency, and even use them to purchase goods & services – have emerged in India, and most are doing phenomenal business. Coin-DCX became India’s first cryptocurrency unicorn in August when the exchange raised $90 million from investors. Coinswitch Kuber hit 10 million registered users in September, just 15 months from launch, making it perhaps the biggest exchange in India. Building these exchanges requires a lot of software and engineering talent. Staffing firm Xpheno estimates there are more than 10,000 active job openings currently in the cryptocurrency segment in India. Even global exchang...

 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak moves into blockchain with a token named after him. WOZX went on sale on HBTC; Bithumb Global is next. His company, Efforce, focuses on energy efficiency. Read the full article at:  https://beincrypto.com/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-opens-blockchain-firm/

It’s changing the future as we speak—but where do you start? Harness Blockchain with real-world applications from the leaders in distributed ledger technologies. To read the full article, visit: https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/services/blockchain-index  (Accessed on April 5, 2019)

The first version of the GS1 EPCIS standard was drafted in  2007  by GS1 and GS1 US. GS1 is a nonprofit organization that creates and maintains standards for business communications and GS1 US is a member of GS1. The standard enables organizations to create and share visibility event data, both within and across organizations. The standardized data (the payload) was intended to be exchanged as XML files. Little could anyone have foreseen the standard using blockchain as a transmission medium. To read the full article, please visit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/04/03/will-blockchain-replace-edi-yes-and-no/#2ccced9847d7  (Accessed on April 5, 2019)

An increasing number of enterprises have been exploring blockchain applications to make work flows more efficient and transparent. Commonly known to be the technology underlying cryptocurrencies, blockchain has proven its use case when applied in financial services, supply chain management, digital identification, among many others. A number of this year’s  30 Under 30 Asia list  entrepreneurs have harnessed the power of blockchain in scaling businesses and growing investments. To read the full article, please visit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamelaambler/2019/04/01/forbes-30-under-30-asia-2019-entrepreneurs-leveraging-blockchain-in-business/#79b8ed822835  (Accessed on April 1, 2019)

India’s largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), is actively working on a number of decentralized projects leveraging R3’s blockchain platform and  Microsoft Azure blockchain  workbench. Per the company, the blockchain venture was initiated to accelerate the adoption of distributed ledger technology across a wide range of industries. TCS Delves Deep Into Blockchain As  reported by ANI , IT giant TCS is developing five blockchain architectures, each offering a different solution ranging from digital identity to tokenization. The platforms will also facilitate solutions such as track-and-trace, asset monetization, and assets in common. The Indian IT heavyweight divulged that the platforms will leverage R3’s blockchain platform, Codra Enterprise, and be hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud. TCS, the world’s ninth-largest IT company by market cap, intends to develop advanced cross-industry blockchain platforms that would make it easy to deploy s...

B lockchain technology is probably the best invention since the internet itself. It allows value exchange without the need for trust or a central authority. Imagine you and I bet $50 on tomorrow’s weather in San Francisco. I bet it will be sunny, you that it will rain. Today we have three options to manage this transaction: We can  trust  each other. Rainy or sunny, the loser will give $50 to the winner. If we are friends, this could be a good way of managing it. However, friends or strangers, one can easily not pay the other. We can turn the bet into a  contract . With a contract in place both parties will be more prone to pay. However, should either of the two decide not to pay, the winner will have to pay additional money to cover legal expenses and the court case might take a long time. Especially for a small amount of cash, this doesn’t seem like the optimal way to manage the transaction. We can involve a  neutral third party . Each of us gives $50 to...

GOOD READS Article / Infographic Gist URL / Source Accessed On How Technology Incumbents Can Realize Their Cloud Growth Ambitions Cloud services and related software and hardware accounted for the majority of IT growth in 2013–17. https://www.bain.com/insights/how-technology-incumbents-can-realize-their-cloud-growth-ambitions/   January 19, 2019 Top 5 Industries Blockchain is Likely to Disrupt [Infographic] 5 Industries Blockchain is Slated to Disrupt in The Coming Years https://medium.com/data-tech/top-5-industries-blockchain-is-likely-to-disrupt-infographic-615fa03b9ebf January 19, 2019 Three Ways AI is Impacting Logistics and Supply Chain Transportation, logistics and supply chain processes are going through intense transformation. We have identified three ways AI can revolutionize supply chain management and ...

0 Comments   99 Share IBM inventors from India earned over 800 patents – the second highest contributor to the company’s global record of 9,100 patents in the US in 2018 – with nearly half in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, cyber security, blockchain and quantum computing. One of the patents filed from India went to IBM inventors Shivali Agarwal, Gaargi B Dasgupta, Shripad J Nadgowda and Tapan K Nayak, the company has said in a statement. They developed an AI-based approach for structured representation and classification of noisy and unstructured data in tickets used in service delivery. Ticket analysis helps create problem diagnostics, prediction of outages and prevention of issues in service delivery, for example for help desks. “IBM is committed to leading the way on the technologies that change the way the world works – and solving problems many people have not even thought of yet,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President ...