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Every parent wants what’s best for their child. It’s little hard to raise kids nowadays. Earlier it was easier but now starting off with a more modern mind frame, today’s families are finding it difficult when it comes to parenting.
A large majority of parents surveyed think that technology use will act as a helping hand in the growth of their child. According to FOSI’s research report,Sixty-four percent (64%) of parents think that technology use has a positive effect on their child’s creativity.
Never have parents had this much information in the palm of their hand. Nothing can replace good primary care, of course, but now parents  can be armed with information well before they walk into a hospital.
In the form of a multi skilled Personal Assistant, Nurturey is the only comprehensive solution supporting parents from pregnancy to early years of parenting. Once parents sign up, they will find a variety of digital productivity tools that they can activate, as relevant to the age, gende…

Ever wondered of a robot that will help in the construction work and other manual deed? Traditionally we've seen robots doing a lot of industrial works where they can lift and carry big objects, and where they can fly around dragonflies. However, we've not seen any robot until now which can stack stones perfectly. But this robot will make you think and force you to believe on the unbelieveable. This robot can stack stones very well and replace humans in this task as well. It means labourers and masons have a reason to worry now as robots are here to compete against them.
According to report published in TechCrunch, researchers at ETH Zurich have come out with a robot in their new project, “Autonomous Robotic Stone Stacking with Online next Best Object Target Pose Planning.” If the reports are to believed, the robot can autonomously lift stones and stack them perfectly. It can do things in a perfect manner even if the stones and rocks are of a different size and kind. This is …

SAP has introduced general availability of SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1705, enabling businesses to make their processes more efficient and automated. The 1705 release most notably features general availability for SAP® Co-Pilot, a digital assistant for the enterprise that is aware of business context, driving efficient collaboration, quickly recognizing and connecting to business objects and offering in-context chat. Further embedded machine learning capabilities offer predictive analytics for increased end-user efficiency, automatic invoice matching and more.
Analytics Updates Help Customers Simplify Business, Stay Ahead and Act in Real Time
New innovations across the entire analytics portfolio give customers better insights into the business for their cloud and hybrid deployments as well provide new capabilities to the expanded SAP Leonardo digital innovation system. The SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly SAP BusinessObjects™ Cloud) solution update is planned to be available this month. Intended…

After a successful stint in Singapore, the people that brought you the world’s first legal Internet-based Digital Video Recorder, RecordTV, have recently launched Blaze in India. Blaze is an AI-based conversational bot that searches the web for the hottest news, videos, tweets and delivers stories - in fact, anything that is trending - right to your Facebook Messenger. This bot acts as a personal news buddy that provides latest trends in the country - whether Top Stories, Cricket, Bollywood or International News to its consumers without consuming any additional space in a smartphone.
That said, Blaze goes much further than that. It is not just a news bot that does curation and aggregation very well. With its unique ‘Create a Blaze’ feature, Blaze is democratizing satire in a way that has never been done before. Imagine a world where you don’t read the news, but you read an authentic, yet comedic take on the news from your favorite creators - a bit like you having your own, personal e…

Niki.ai, an AI startup, and Zen Mobiles have partnered to provide a simple, fast and intelligent shopping experience to the customers of Zen Mobiles. Now Zen smartphone users can enjoy conversational commerce on their phones and avail crucial services such as mobile recharges and bill payments; cab, bus and hotel bookings; events and movie ticketing; food ordering; home services and nearby search all by simply chatting with Niki. The service can be currently availed on Admire Swadesh and Admire Dragon devices and on upcoming models, like Admire Thrill+, Admire Joy and Admire Buzz.
Through this tie-up, Zen Mobile aims to provide an integrated services marketplace for their users, and make the smartphone experience much more wholesome and personalized. The integration enables Zeneration 4G Smartphone from Zen Mobiles to enhance their customer experience, improve customer engagement, and monetize their customer base. It also allows users to have sufficient free memory in their phones, w…

ABB and IBM announced a strategic collaboration that brings together ABB’s industry leading digital offering, ABB Ability, with IBM Watson Internet of Things cognitive capabilities to unlock new value for customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure.
Customers will benefit from ABB’s deep domain knowledge and extensive portfolio of digital solutions combined with IBM’s expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as different industry verticals. The first two joint industry solutions powered by ABB Ability and Watson will bring real-time cognitive insights to the factory floor and smart grids.
“This powerful combination marks truly the next level of industrial technology, moving beyond current connected systems that simply gather data, to industrial operations and machines that use data to sense, analyze, optimize and take actions that drive greater uptime, speed and yield for industrial customers,” said ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer. “With an…

EY, the leading global professional services organization, today announced its plans to enhance its suite of automation and artificial intelligence offerings with the opening of its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center in India.

The students at MIT Pune have been using IBM Watson APIs powered by IBM Bluemix, IBM's Cloud platform and have hit the ground running with speed within weeks. When asked about leveraging a new technology like IBM Watson, Krishnamohan Manmohan, a student at MIT Pune, said, "What I like most about Watson is that it is an incredible platform that provides a variety of services that can solve real world problems. These services can be used as and when required and are always accessible. It's definitely something that all students should have access to, in order to develop the market relevant skills sets.''

HDFC Life announced the launch of India’s first life insurance chatbot in collaboration with Haptik, India’s largest chatbot platform. The chatbot will act as a financial guide to help users choose the most suitable life insurance plans and solutions.

Smart machines will enter mainstream adoption by 2021, with 30 percent adoption by large companies, according to Gartner, Inc. Technologies including cognitive computing, artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation, machine learning and deep learning fall under the umbrella term for smart machines.

The banking sector is laying greater emphasis on providing revamped services to their clients, enhancing their technological infrastructure in order to give banks a competitive edge. There is an uncertainty prevailing in the banking industry as many capital markets are being transformed and experiencing serious existential threats.

Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft unveiled its new R&D center in Chennai, giving a major boost to its research and development activities. The new lab will help Perpetuuiti in its innovation efforts, launching products in the emerging area of Artificial Intelligence, apart from its thrust on Business Service Continuity and Availability Management and Recovery Assurance products.