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Calling machine learning "one of the most disruptive technologies we will ever encounter in our generation," Amazon Machine Learning Vice President Swami Sivasubramanian introduced  a bevy of new tools  Tuesday at AWS re:Invent . There will be nine new Amazon SageMaker capabilities, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life science organizations called Amazon HealthLake, and general availability for Amazon Neptune ML, he said. Read the full article at: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/amazon-unveils-dozens-of-machine-learning-tools/

 

The inventions in Artificial Intelligence are thriving the pace of invention despite the existing pandemic. The year 2020 has surprised humans in many ways. From encountering a pandemic, addressing a global recession, and witnessing the global geopolitical changes, humanity is standing in ambiguous times. However, not everything is uncertain. Throughout the year, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, Internet of Things, and augmented/virtual reality, amongst others have spearheaded innovation with a promising future. These technologies have validated that despite the crisis, technology will transform the world. Henceforth, Analytics Insight brings you the major inventions of 2020 that has shaped the world. Read the full article at:  https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-artificial-intelligence-inventions-in-2020/

COVID-19 cases have only been on the rise, and with the non-availability of effective drugs and vaccines, one of the effective ways to control it is to detect it early in patients. However, the task is easier said than done. While a large number of test kits are being produced, they are not enough to conduct it in large numbers. Government-run bodies such as C-CAMP or Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platform have been a key enabler in driving COVID-19 testing as it has been aggressively building, managing and scaling the ecosystem of MSMEs to produce COVID-19 test kits indigenously. However, they might not be enough.  To scale up this production of test kits to a million test kits a day, TCS has come up with a solution to support C-CAMP in achieving that. In a recent announcement, TCS said that it had deployed a  blockchain-based  digital supply chain platform to drive the ambitious new project launched by C-CAMP. Read the full article at: https://analyticsindiamag.com/...

 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/

MUMBAI: All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has extended the last date for admissions to engineering courses to December 31, after requests from many state governments. In a revised circular, the council said dates have been extended only where counselling and admissions had not started due to delayed CET. Meanwhile, the state CET cell plans to complete admissions to all courses, including engineering, MBA/MMS, law and BEd in two rounds, instead of three. Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/79578938.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 TCS through its supply chain solution is helping the Indian Government’s C-CAMP build, manage and scale an ecosystem of MSMEs to indigenously produce a million Covid-19 test kits a day TCS recently announced that it has deployed a blockchain-based digital supply chain platform that powers an ambitious new project launched by the Government of India’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) to scale up indigenous Covid-19 diagnostic test-kit production capacity to a million test kits a day. C-CAMP’s newly launched project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is called Indigenisation of Diagnostics (InDx), and aims to build a robust, scalable supply-chain ecosystem of Indian MSMEs capable of producing large quantities of reagents and other components needed for RT-qPCR-based and other diagnostic test kits for Covid-19. The project entails eliminating supply-chain bottlenecks, and handholding MSMEs to help them bridge capability gaps, meet necessary quality standards a...