The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), today launched the Centre of Excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CoE – DSAI), in Bengaluru, in partnership with the Government of Karnataka. NASSCOM also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Niti Aayog to collaboratively foster applied research, accelerating adoption and ethics, privacy and security. The CoE and MoU aim to strengthen the country's AI ecosystem and serve as a platform serve as a platform for intelligence-sharing and technology collaboration between stakeholders to build collective capabilities for the industry and country in the cutting-edge areas artificial intelligence. In line with the government's National Strategy for AI, NASSCOM will facilitate collaboration between NITI Aayog and CoEs and will include NITI Aayog as a knowledge partner. The CoE-DSAI initiative aims to support SMBs, by fast-tracking their product development, provide market access to enterprises and assist them by co-creating programs along with other industry partners and start-ups to solve complex and real-world business problems.

Traces of automation can be found throughout the residential real estate market: listings, price estimates and home loans are available at the press of a button. In China, buyers can even consult robot Realtors. Commercial real estate, on the other hand, with its higher stakes and more complex deals, has been less susceptible to digital disruption. However, firms are still turning to artificial intelligence for a tech edge. Greystone is the latest real estate firm to dive into computer automation, partnering with Skyline AI, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in data aggregation and benchmarking in the commercial investment market. With Skyline AI's assessment system and Greystone's financial records as well as the machine learning software of Greystone Labs -- the lender's in-house tech department -- the partnership aims to underwrite loans as much as 10 times faster and with more accuracy.

Robots and drones have fueled a conversation about autonomous weapons and other deadly machines, being used in products ranging from the toy industry to the military. Yet investors seem to believe this technology is here to stay and in the U.S., the level of investment is highest. Venture capitalists in America spent $728 million on drones and robotics, far ahead of China, which was No. 2 on the list with only $227 million. Japan followed with $129 million invested, while Singapore and Canada closed the top five with $96 million and $59 million spent by venture capitalists, respectively.

If you're a dating app regular, you know that a photo only says so much about yourself. But do you really want to go to the trouble of recording a whole video for people who could swipe left before you've even spoken a word? Tinder thinks there's a better balance between the two. It's launching a Loops feature that (surprise) adds two-second looping videos to your profile alongside the usual still shots. You just have to trim an existing video to portray yourself as a fun-loving party person or tender romantic. The feature is initially available for iOS users in the US, UK, Canada and large chunks of Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

I wrote this blog to wrap up my first ever public talk at PyCon Thailand 2018 and to add some more details . Advertising technology, commonly known as "Ad Tech", has been used by brands, vendors, and agencies to analyze and get insights from potential customers' activities online. In the past year, machine learning and deep learning became a major tools for Ad Tech. For example, an image recognition system is used to identify the targets from brands, products, and logos on publicly posted images. The easiest way to identify brand from images is by its logo. In deep learning, it's all about create, train, and deploy network.

BEIJING, CHINA – Baidu Inc., the search giant often described as Google's Chinese counterpart, has today unveiled a self-developed artificial intelligence chip which promises to be the most powerful in the world. In a move that will see Baidu join the likes of Google, NVIDIA, Intel, and others, the launch of the Kunlun 818-300 model chip at the annual Baidu Create AI developer conference will only accelerate the race for effective edge computing-based AI processing units. Baidu explained that they began working with field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips especially for deep learning in 2011. Kunlun is 30 times faster than their first FPGA chip and is able to achieve 260 tera-operations per second (TOPS) and 512GB/second memory bandwidth, according to VentureBeat. The company say that the chip can be used across a range of AI applications, from natural language processing and voice recognition to search ranking, autonomous driving, and large-scale use cases.

NASSCOM along with Government of Karnataka today launched the Centre of Excellence for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CoE – DSAI) in Bengaluru. Supporting the government's National Strategy for AI, NASSCOM will facilitate collaboration between NITI Aayog and CoEs and will include NITI Aayog as a knowledge partner. Also, leveraging their skilling platform FutureSkills, NASSCOM and Niti Aayog will together accelerate innovation and cultivate skilling in India. The CoE initiative is a nationwide program on innovation focusing on solutions in smart manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, agriculture, energy, IoT, banking & financial services, retail, telecom, and host of emerging technologies. NASSCOM has partnered with Intel and IBM as its founding members and technology advisors for augmenting and accelerating the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence ecosystem in the country.

Indian banks, including state-owned SBI and Bank of Baroda, have started deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in a big way to improve efficiency, detect human behaviour and reduce operational costs. State Bank of India, the India's largest lender, has SBI Intelligent Assistant (SIA) -- a smart chat assistant, evolved from the "cutting edge technology of artificial intelligence, that efficiently resolves queries of NRI customers, similar to that of a bank representative. "It provides instant solutions on everyday banking queries in the chat box on the SBI portal," the state-run lender said. The bank is also in the process of instituting an'Innovation Centre' that will explore how emerging technologies such as AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help in making internal banking processes more efficient. Another state lender Bank of Baroda has evolved an innovative concept by setting up of hi-tech digital branch equipped with advanced gadgets like artificial intelligence robot named Baroda Brainy and Digital Lab with free Wi-Fi services. Private sector banks too are using the advance innovative technology for improving workforce productivity and enhancing the customer experience. "The Indian banking industry is on a rapid digital journey and has been adopting technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning which will reshape the future.

In Serengeti National Park, there are 225 hidden cameras constantly photographing the creatures that roam this Tanzanian wilderness. To date, these camera traps have captured more than three million images. Through Serengeti Snapshot, as the program is called, they've studied everything from the migrations of the region's herbivores to the surprising co-existence of lions, hyenas, and cheetahs. It's work that wouldn't have been possible without an army of 30,000 citizen scientists, who manually sorted the collection, identifying and naming the species in each frame. It's time-consuming work, and the volunteers are doing it for kicks.

The law will now be sent for a full reconsideration and debate inside the parliament, during which activists will try and remove the controversial Article 11 and 13. Article 11 has been referred to by campaigners as instituting a "link tax", by forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay to use snippets of content on their own sites. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.