AI that improves healthcare efficiency also threatens profits

Some medical technologies that use artificial intelligence might benefit patients but result in a drop in health system revenues. This could make widespread adoption of AI in medicine a tough sell.

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Why your next pizza dinner or ice cream dessert may be made by a robot

AI and automation are impacting more than just cashier jobs in the food service industry.

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LinkedIn launches translation feature that builds on Microsoft AI technologies

Microsoft's LinkedIn unit has developed a new dynamic translation service for posts in the LinkedIn news feed, and used some of Microsoft's cognitive services to build it.

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Microsoft Azure IoT Edge goes live, simplifies deployments with 3 new features

The fully-managed service delivers cloud intelligence locally by running AI, Azure services, and custom logic directly on cross-platform IoT.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

How to measure ROI on your company's automation projects

Automation can open up new business models and create cost savings for the entire organization. Here are the metrics that matter.

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Monday, June 25, 2018

These 2 hidden Slack features could make the app much better for business users

Slack is keeping quiet as it experiments with expiring statuses and a more accessible direct message (DM) icon.

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How AI and social media can improve customer service and reduce cost

Conversocial CEO Joshua March explained how customer service AI can perform mundane tasks to reduce the human cognitive load and allow employees to work more efficiently.

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How Bing uses AI to search what you see in your smartphone camera

Microsoft's visual search technology allows users to exchange keywords for images on Bing mobile applications.

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How machine learning could redefine how we watch television

Tunity CEO Yaniv Davidson explains how machine learning can help beam television content to your mobile device.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Google Hire update uses AI to help recruiters connect with candidates

A new update to Google's Hire app allows recruiters to spend less time toggling technology and more time finding candidates.

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Alexa for Hospitality: A clear example of IoT benefits for end user and business

With the new service, hotel guests can order more towels, call the front desk, and more.

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Extreme Networks' new AI-powered edge network solution to accelerate digital transformation

The Smart OmniEdge is an artificial intelligence-enabled network edge solution that enhances security and can be used as on-premise or as-a-service.

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Google AI is very good at predicting when a patient is going to die

Google takes a 'gobble-it-all' approach to building predictive analytics for patient outcomes.

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Android user? Beware of new scam that could trick you into downloading bad apps

Android app developers have found clever tactics for tricking users into installing fake apps. Here's how to not get fooled.

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In a rush? Here's how Gmail on iOS will only show your highest priority notifications

Google's mobile Gmail update uses machine learning to notify users on emails they may want to read first.

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Jio Double Dhamaka Offer, Redmi 6 Launch, MIUI 10 Global Beta ROM, and More News This Week

Jio is offering 1.5GB of additional data per day on prepaid recharges priced between Rs. 149 and Rs. 799, Redmi 6 price and specifications revealed, MIUI 10 global beta rolling out, and more news this week.

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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Asus ZenFone Ares With 8GB RAM, QHD Display Launched: Price, Specifications

Asus ZenFone Ares price in Taiwan has been set at TWD 9,999 (roughly Rs. 22,700).

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Apple Expects LCD iPhone Models to Drive Majority of Sales This Year: Report

It is also reported that Apple could retain at least one lower-priced LCD iPhone in its 2019 lineup.

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Trump Sets Tariffs on Chinese Imports, Beijing Strikes Back

US President Donald Trump said he was pushing ahead with hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports on Friday.

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Google's New Ad Settings Make It Easier to Personalise and Turn Off Targeted Ads

Google has also expanded 'Why this ad?' feature to all its services and partner websites and apps.

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NASA's Record-Breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson Announces Retirement

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who spent a record-breaking 665 days in space, has retired from the space agency.

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Sony Starts Working on New Android Launcher to Replace Xperia Home Launcher

Sony announced the discontinuation of its Xperia Home launcher earlier this week.

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WhatsApp May Be Working on a Windows App for PCs: Report

Concept art for a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of WhatsApp showed up on Behance before being promptly removed.

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Lawsuit Over White Nationalist's Twitter Ban Clears Hurdle

A California judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit that accuses Twitter of violating the free speech rights of a leading white nationalist figure by banning his social media account.

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The Cyber-Security 202: Apple's Latest Security Fix Is Deepening Divisions Over FBI Access

Apple's latest iPhone security update is polarising an already heated debate over law enforcement's access to smartphones.

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Apple Maps Recovers From Multi-Hour Outage Affecting Users Globally

The impact of the outage was even noticed on apps that offer real-time weather updates.

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Gmail for iOS Gets AI-Based Smart Notifications for High-Priority Emails

The new feature will also arrive on Android devices in the future.

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TRAI, BEREC Sign Memorandum on Preserving, Promoting Net Neutrality Rules

Telecom regulators from India and the EU met this week to announced their common understanding of the "building blocks of net neutrality rules".

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Sunday, June 10, 2018

What is a CryptoCurrency?





What is CryptoCurrency: ?- Is it Money of the Future ?

Here i would try to explain what crypto currency is all about in the most simplified way possible.

“Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don’t have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.”- Bill Gates

A crypto currency is a kind of Digital/Virtual/or we can say an alternative currency which is designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses several methods to secure financial transactions, control creation of additional units and verify the transfer of assets.Cryptocurrencies were designed as a unit of exchange and as a place to store assets without relying on a central bank.
The main technology behind most of the crypto currencies is BlockChain, the most famous among these is the BitCoin ,which was first released as open-source software in 2009, is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency. If we talk about present, there are more than 4,000 altcoin (Alternative Coin) have been launched in market.

If we go by the definations, According to Jan Lansky, a cryptocurrency is a system that meets six conditions:

1)The system does not require a central authority, distributed achieve consensus on its state.
2)The system keeps an overview of cryptocurrency units and their ownership.
3)The system defines whether new cryptocurrency units can be created. If new cryptocurrency units can be created, the system defines the circumstances of their origin and how to determine the ownership of these new units.
4)Ownership of cryptocurrency units can be proved exclusively cryptographically.
5)The system allows transactions to be performed in which ownership of the cryptographic units is changed. A transaction statement can only be issued by an entity proving the current ownership of these units.
6)If two different instructions for changing the ownership of the same cryptographic units are simultaneously entered, the system performs at most one of them.

The underlying technical system upon which decentralized cryptocurrencies are based was created by the group or individual known as Satoshi Nakamoto.
Most cryptocurrencies are designed to gradually decrease production of that currency, placing a cap on the total amount of that currency that will ever be in circulation which is different in the case of ordinary currencies held by the Financial institutions. In case of decentralized cryptocurrency, companies or governments cannot produce new units, and have not so far provided backing for other firms, banks or corporate entities which hold asset value measured in it.

Cryptocurrency transactions happen directly between individuals instead of through a bank. Every time a person makes a transaction using a cryptocurrency — for example, using funds stored in his or her crypto wallet to send bitcoin to someone else — the transaction is recorded on a digital ledger called a blockchain. Every cryptocurrency has its own blockchain, and computers doing complex math in a large network maintain it.

Once users make a specific number of transactions using a cryptocurrency, the computers group these transactions into a “block.” In order to send a block, adding transactions to the blockchain and winning a monetary reward, a computer has to solve a complex math problem called a cryptographic function.

The following features are the main driver of cryptocurrency price, but not limited to these.

Limited Supply and supply/demand.
Energy put in in the form of electricity to secure the blockchain.
Blockchain difficulty level.
The utility of the currency, and how easy it is to use and store.
Perceptions on its value by the public.
Price of Bitcoin.
Media.
Investors.
Scams.
Market dilution.
Innovation.
Confidence in traditional systems.
Legal/Governmental issues.


Crypto currencies have been made legal in many of the countries however it's not a legal tender yet in most of those countries too(you can’t pay your taxes in Bitcoin, it is considered investment property).

I would like to conclude it here only , as this post was meant to give a basic understanding about the crypto currencies, if you guys want me to give some detailed knowledge about it, do let me know.

Thanks. :)

Saturday, June 9, 2018

TOP 10 IT CERTIFICATIONS FOR FUTURE




In this post I have tried to cover the 10 top most IT certifications which could help you to boost your  career and could gain you a very good hike in your salary.

10)Programming Languages:
A programming language is the prime and soul of any technology. Wikipedia defines “A programming language is a formal language that specifies a set of instructions that can be used to produce various kinds of output. Programming languages generally consists of instructions for a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that implement specific algorithms"
We have Python ,java, C#, Swift, Scala R, SAS, JavaScript and TypeScript which are the most hottest languages to upscale yourself. All the above certifications cost somewhere around 100$- $250 per exam. So stop thinking so much, up skill yourself  and go ahead .

Visit this site for basic ujderunderstaof PYTHON:
http://learnpythonquickly.blogspot.com/2018/06/learn-python-in-easy-way-baisc.html?m=1

9)DevOps Certifications;
Next we are going to talk about the Devops. Devops is not about one single tool. It is not owned by one single organization. Since it is a practice and involves multiple tools ,there are certifications for each and every tools .
The most valued certifications are those of Jenkins ,Docker ,Puppet ,Chef and Kubernetes.
Certified Jenkins engineer certifications offered by cloudbees costs around $200
Docker certified associate level certification costs around 1$95.
 Puppet-System Administration costs around 200$
The certification cost for the certified SAP developer is $175 and finally the certification cost for kubernetes certified administrator exam is 300 US Dollars.
Before going for any certification you should have atleast two to three years of experience working with that tool while also having strong IT administration skills.

8)Web Development Certifications:
 As we know there always has been a high demand for good web developers and many of you would have learned the fundamental web development on your own through your curriculum or some other mediums. But the best thing would be to get certified in this as this will really boost your career and will eventually leave you to earn more money.
The most popular web development certifications are Adobe certified expert certification, Microsoft developer certification namely Microsoft Technology associate and Microsoft certified solution developer
Google developer certification for web development and zend certified PHP engineer.
 All the certifications cost around 100$ to $200 per exam. All of them requires good knowledge of fundamentals that is HTML and JavaScript and also a work experience of 1 to 3 years will surely be a big help for you as you would already be familiar with the best code practices after clearing the certification exam you can for sure expect hike of 20% to 30%

7) Business Intelligence and Extract Transform Load ETL tools Certifications:
So the next we have in pur list is  Business Intelligence and Extract Transform load ETL tools. With the amount of data stored by companies growing exponentially it is no surprise that finding the right data management solution continuously show up on the priority list of every companies and the need of the hour for them is to translate data into information to plan for future business strategies. A BI solution helps in producing accurate reports by extracting data directly from your data source which also reduces the scope of area by providing managers with accurate data to make better decisions on what is happening now and the forecast for the future getting all that data into one place is a great challenge. Using the extract out of the ETL will solve that problem. This would help get your data, different data sources into homgenous format.
There are many BI and ETL tools in the market but the prominent ones are power BI, Pentaho BI, SAS, Tableau ,Informatica ,IBM Cognos,qlikview ,Microsoft BI, Teradata .They have their individual certifications ,but to clear those certifications you need a structured training , and I feel it’s worth your effort to acquire one such certificate as it would help you a lot to progress in your career.

6)BigData Certifications:
Next we are going to talk about big data certifications. So according to Folks, big data and Hadoop market is expected to reach 99.3 1 billions by 2022 and Mckenzie predict that by 2018 there will be a shortage of 1.5 million big data experts. If you have a big data Hadoop certification you are recognised in the industry as a capable qualified big data Expert. Theree are two measure Hadoop certifications namely cloudera and hortonworks.
 There are five Hadoop certification provided by Hortonworks: HDP certified developer,HDB certified Apache Spark developer, HDB certified Java developer, HDB certified administrator and Hortonworks certified associate.
BigData is the most trending and sought after technology of these days and near future.

5)Project Management Certifications:
So behind every successful IT project ,there will be highly skilled project manager working from behind the scenes. PMI( Project Management Institute) avails wide range of certifications in the field of project management of which the most popular ones are PMP that is professional management professional certifications ,ACP that is Agile certified practitioner , CAMP that is certified associate in project management and so on. The fees or cost of each of the certifications values from certificate to certificate and would cost you around $200 to $1400.
In order to apply for the certifications, all you need is to have a proper education and experience in the domain of applied certification.

4)Networking Certifications:
One of the largest categories of IT certifications and it careers have to be networking. There a different certifications available of different levels of expertise in networking that is whether you are someone who is looking to make a career in networking or you are already in the networking domain and looking to update your skills, there is certification available for each of your requirements. Some of the most popular certifications in networking a Cisco Certified internet work expert CCIE , Cisco Certified network profession CCNP, Network + wireshark certified network analyst WCNA. These certifications comes in the range of  around $300 to $400 and will require you to have good knowledge in topics such as routing and switching network security to pass the certifications exam.

3) Security Certifications:
Security certifications are more popularly known as information security certifications .The most sought after security certifications are CISSP certified Information System Security professional ,CISM certified information security manager, CISA certified Information Systems auditor and CEH certified ethical hacker.
The cost of these certifications may vary but most of the certifications would come under the range of $600 to $800.Iit is mandatory that you have at least 5 years of experience to get this certifications and at least 1 to 2 years of experience that is domain specific to the certification one opts for.
Some certification also requires you to have domain specific bachelor degree as well.

2) Data science Certifications:
Data science is very huge to make one skill evaluated by one or two data science certifications . However a data scientist certificate gives you that extra edge over the talented pool ensuring big data recruiters that you have real time competence to do DataScience in smarter, faster and optimised way.
There are no standard industry recognisable data scientist certification programs however below is the list of  best DataScience and Data Analytics certification that one can choose from:
First one is cloudera certified professional data scientist [CCP:DS], few other certifications are Cloudera Johns Hopkins Data Sciences Certification, EMC data science associate ,INFORMS certified analytics professional(CAP).

1)Cloud Certifications:
Talking about the cloud certification, as we know that most of the companies are moving their infrastructure on cloud, so there is a requirement in the industry for cloud computing experts as we know that most of the companies are moving their infrastructure on cloud and there are a lot of certifications out there in the market provided by various vendors.
 Let's talk about AWS first i.e; Amazon Web Services- Amazon Web Services provide AWS certified solution architect associate level, AWS certified solution architect professional level, AWS certified developer associate level, AWS certified SysOps administrator associate level and AWS certified devops engineer professional level.
We also have something from Microsoft to offer, Microsoft Azure : Microsoft certified solution expert MCSE Private Cloud, Microsoft Specialist Certification in Office 365, Microsoft Certified Specialist Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, ,Microsoft Certified Sub Specialist Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Microsoft Certified Sub Specialist Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
Also there are certifications provided by Google cloud platform, there are Cloud Architect, Data Engineering, G-Suite admin and G-Suite certification. All the certifications will range around 100$ to $250 and the kind of skill sets you required depends on the kind of certifications you are applying for. If you are applying for a solution architect you should have some admin background if you are applying for developer certifications you should have good coding skills so based on the kind of certifications you are applying skill sets will vary accordingly.


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