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8 tips for welcoming employees back to the office
Employees who have become used to working from home may have mixed feelings about coming back to the office. That's why welcoming them back in the right way is so important.
https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/feature/8-tips-for-welcoming-employees-back-to-the-office
Inclusive Workplaces: Focus on Enterprise Perceptions
McKinsey has broadened their perspective on how to create truly inclusive workplaces and inspired the development of a modern and revolutionary inclusion model. The model includes 17 practices (i.e., frequency of desired behaviors) and six outcomes (i.e., perceptions of effectiveness) that form the backbone of the inclusion assessment.
Enterprise perceptions of inclusion are driven by seven organizational systems practices and three leader practices. Seven practices that help improve employees’ personal experience of inclusion.
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World-Record Data Transmission Speed smashed.
Japan sets new gold standard at 319 terabits/second—across more than 3000 km
Greening IT: Need & Opportunities
More than a decade ago, Cutter Consortium introduced the concept of green IT in an Executive Report by San Murugesan that outlined IT’s role in creating a sustainable environment. The topic has become all the more important and relevant today. This Report provides an updated, holistic view of greening IT and how we can — and should — embrace IT to address the environmental challenges we urgently face.
Read this issue by filling out the form.
https://www.cutter.com/offer/greening-it-need-opportunities
Cyber Defenders 2021
Digitization and a corresponding increase in cyber attacks have made cybersecurity top of mind for governments and corporations alike in 2021.
Summarizing the current risk landscape, chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said,
“The world evolves, and the risks change as well, and I would say that the risk that we keep our eyes on the most now is cyber risk.”
In this report, we dig into 14 tech categories shaping the future of cybersecurity and highlight 28 early-stage startups well-positioned to thwart any accompanying risk.
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/cyber-defenders-2021
Function delivery network: Extending serverless computing for heterogeneous platforms
Serverless computing has rapidly grown following the launch of Amazon's Lambda platform. Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) a key enabler of serverless computing allows an application to be decomposed into simple, standalone functions that are executed on a FaaS platform. The FaaS platform is responsible for deploying and facilitating resources to the functions. Several of today's cloud applications spread over heterogeneous connected computing resources and are highly dynamic in their structure and resource requirements. However, FaaS platforms are limited to homogeneous clusters and homogeneous functions and do not account for the data access behavior of functions before scheduling. We introduce an extension of FaaS to heterogeneous clusters and to support heterogeneous functions through a network of distributed heterogeneous target platforms called Function Delivery Network (FDN). A target platform is a combination of a cluster of homogeneous nodes and a FaaS platform on top of it. FDN provides Function-Delivery-as-a-Service (FDaaS), delivering the function to the right target platform. We showcase the opportunities such as varied target platform's characteristics, possibility of collaborative execution between multiple target platforms, and localization of data that the FDN offers in fulfilling two objectives: Service Level Objective (SLO) requirements and energy efficiency when scheduling functions by evaluating over five distributed target platforms using the FDNInspector, a tool developed by us for benchmarking distributed target platforms. Scheduling functions on an edge target platform in our evaluation reduced the overall energy consumption by 17× without violating the SLO requirements in comparison to scheduling on a high-end target platform.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.2966
Fueling Post-COVID-19 Growth with Blockchain & Gig Economy Strategies
Blockchain is commonly discussed as a high-potential technology in the fintech domain. However, it is often criticized as being a solution looking for a problem. Zion Schum, Isaiah Morales, and Roger Yin seek to address this issue by providing readers with an understanding of blockchain-enabled technologies and the gig economy, and how blockchain can be harnessed to develop innovative business models to facilitate growth post-COVID-19. They touch on several exciting opportunities blockchain affords, including cryptocurrencies, tokenization, decentralized applications, and smart contracts. Through the lens of Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur’s Business Model Canvas, the authors illustrate how leveraging blockchain and the gig economy can both cut costs and increase revenues.
https://www.cutter.com/article/fueling-post-covid-19-growth-blockchain-gig-economy-strategies
Top 12 most commonly used IoT protocols and standards
Not every IoT communication protocol is right for every deployment or device. Consider the power and security requirements before choosing one protocol over another.
Robots are coming for the lawyers – which may be bad for tomorrow’s attorneys but great for anyone in need of cheap legal assistance
Imagine what a lawyer does on a given day: researching cases, drafting briefs, advising clients. While technology has been nibbling around the edges of the legal profession for some time, it’s hard to imagine those complex tasks being done by a robot.
And it is those complicated, personalized tasks that have led technologists to include lawyers in a broader category of jobs that are considered pretty safe from a future of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
But, as we discovered in a recent research collaboration to analyze legal briefs using a branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning, lawyers’ jobs are a lot less safe than we thought. It turns out that you don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it. All you need to do is automate part of it.
While this may be bad news for tomorrow’s lawyers, it could be great for their future clients – particularly those who have trouble affording legal assistance.
Japan 5.0: A Testbed for Humanoid Robots, 5G, and Autonomous Cars
Before anybody else, the Japanese are ready to form a futuristic society.
Under the vision of Society 5.0, Japan aims to create a highly efficient economic model by successfully embedding a number of technological innovations (such as AI, IoT, etc.) into everyday life to create a ‘cyberphysical system’, in which cyberspace and the physical space are tightly integrated. Experts claim that the Society 5.0 initiative will enable the Japanese government to take their country further into the information age to a better tech-savvy, wealthy, and sustainable era.
https://interestingengineering.com/japans-society-50-an-upcoming-age-of-renaissance
Future of Transport & Mobility 2021
Covid stopped much of the transport and travel industry in its tracks, so how is the sector responding as the world opens up again? Our Future of Transport & Mobility report explores how town planners are charting the commutes of tomorrow, how a wounded aviation industry is tackling decarbonisation and how mechanics are upskilling to take on electric vehicles
https://res.cloudinary.com/yumyoshojin/image/upload/v1627477993/pdf/transport-mobility-2021.pdf
https://www.raconteur.net/report/transport-mobility-2021/
THE EFFECT OF STANDARDS ON SAFETY AND PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION
Product liability has created problems for manufacturers and product sellers for many decades. These problems have been exacerbated by the expansion of product liability laws throughout the world. In addition, there has been a proliferation of safety regulatory requirements, starting in the United States (U.S.) and then moving to the European Union. In addition, countries such as Japan, China, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa have all recently established or strengthened their product safety regulatory regimes and requirements.
This all creates additional challenges for manufacturers who want to comply with all laws, regulations, and standards in any country where they sell their products. Such companies may also need to consider safety requirements in countries where they do not sell products if they believe that these requirements establish a floor for safety that they want to meet.
This article will discuss the basic kinds of defects that can be alleged in any product liability case, the law as it pertains to compliance with standards, and some tips on how to deal with the issue of standards compliance.
Ad Astra: The Past, Present, and Future of Rockets!
An in-depth look at the origins of rocketry, how they've allowed us to go to space, and what the future could hold for them.
https://interestingengineering.com/ad-astra-the-past-present-future-of-rockets
IPCC climate report: Earth is warmer than it’s been in 125,000 years
Landmark assessment says that greenhouse gases are unequivocally driving extreme weather — but that nations can still prevent the worst impacts.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02179-1
14 Community Building Tips to Develop an Online Following
What are some good ways to build an online following for your business?
To help your business build an online following, we asked marketing experts and business leaders this question for their best advice. From connecting with your online market to being consistent with your branding, there are several things that may help you build your following online.
Here are 14 good ways to build a following online for your business:
https://calendly.com/blog/14-community-building-tips-to-develop-an-online-following
25 Short Golden Rules of Learning
Deconstruct a challenging topic into sub-topics and learn just enough one day at a time.
The ability to learn rapidly is a skill you need in a consistently changing world. High achievers, lifelong learners and top performers rely on a set of principles, rules, routines, habits and actions to learn better.
Whatever you want to learn now or in the future, these principles can guide your learning process. And always remember to keep an open mind.
Maintain intellectual curiosity. It’s the beginning of wisdom.
https://medium.com/personal-growth/25-short-golden-rules-of-learning-defeb211b7e8
Magazine: IIT Madras Shaastra -- a science and technology magazine
Welcome to Shaastra, a science and technology magazine from IIT Madras, which will keep you informed of cutting-edge developments across these two domains. Shaastra will bring an Indian perspective to global science and technology and an international perspective to Indian science. In-depth reportage on a broad range of subjects will be complemented by enriching views from experts. All of this will be presented in a language that will appeal to industry and academia – and to general readers with a keen interest in science and technology.
The July-August issue of Shaastra, released as an e-edition, is now available for you to browse. We are offering it free to our readers, and we invite you to read the flipbook – and download the entire issue in PDF format.
https://shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/
eBook: Technology-Enabled Learning: Policy, Pedagogy and Practice
Teaching and learning have undergone considerable transformation from the traditional classroom model to the current online and blended models. Developments in information and communications technologies hold the key to such transformation. Seizing the opportunities and affordances of these technologies, COL’s Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL) initiative has focused on several activities to support governments and educational institutions in the Commonwealth since July 2015. // Significant and sustainable interventions include: the Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action programme; ICT in education policy development, including open educational resources policy and implementation; massive open online courses on TEL and blended learning practices; systematic TEL implementation in educational institutions; and advanced ICT skills development. // Technology-Enabled Learning: Policy, Pedagogy and Practice, based mostly on various TEL projects in the last five years, presents diverse experiences of TEL from a critical research perspective, offering lessons that can be deployed elsewhere. The book’s 17 chapters provide success stories about the planned and systematic integration of technology in teaching and learning, and present models for online training at scale using massive open online courses and other platforms. Within the framework of the policy–technology–capacity approach to TEL implementation at the micro, meso and macro levels, the chapters also provide guidelines for researching and evaluating similar projects and interventions. // In the post-COVID-19 world of education, the lessons learnt and recommendations in this book will help policy makers and educational leaders rethink existing models of education and training.
You can download it from: http://oasis.col.org/handle/11599/3655
Videos: The inventor's corner
How a creative spark became a full-fledged idea, became a prototype, became an amazing invention ...
9 talks · Total run time 1:50:55
07:08 --How I built a jet suit
13:58 -- Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper
05:46 -- My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
06:28 -- How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them
12:00 -- Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
21:30 -- The mind behind Linux
09:29 -- How new technology helps blind people explore the world
20:07 -- To invent is to give
14:29 -- Everyday inventions
https://www.ted.com/playlists/557/the_inventor_s_corner
Tips for De-Stressing on National Relaxation Day
On August 15, celebrate a day dedicated to chilling out. With these relaxation tips, you might be surprised how much you benefit from some me-time.
https://www.meetup.com/blog/tips-for-de-stressing-on-national-relaxation-day
IRAI Quiz -- 210811
1. Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals were made from ------
2. What is the popular name of the Chinese board game Wei Qi. Google DeepMind won human at this complex game.
3. As at July 2021, Apple and ----------- (Amazon/Microsoft) are the two tech companies had the market capitalisation of over $ two trillion
4. The mineral ---------- was historically nicknamed fool’s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the precious metal.
5. Bangalore based Ride Hailing majar Ola's venture, Ola Electric will be manufacturing electric scooters in --------- (Krishnagiri /Bangalore)
6. -------------- to launch digital currency, "e-naira", in Oct 2021
7. Who coined the term "Computer Science" in 1961
8. Children of Millennials are known to belong to Generation -----------
9. Issac Asimov's famous Laws of Robotics were first introduced in the short science fiction story --------------
10. Bitcoin uses -------------- (proof-of-work / proof-of-stake) protocol to validate the transactions
https://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2020/08/answers-to-irai-quiz.html
Forthcoming Events
14th Aug 2021 at 6 pm IST. IEEE CS, ACM & CSI
Webinar on Emerging Technology and Innovation in Post COVID World
Speaker: Prof. Sanjiva Shankar Dubey, Prof. and Head IT & Chairperson, Centre of Online Studies, Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida & Author of the book "Technology and Innovation Management"
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Note: All registered participants will receive a free copy of Chapter 1 of the book TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, authored by Prof . Dubey in pdf format. In addition, the event attendees will get a special discount of 30% on print book and 25% on eBook while purchasing the book at the PHI website.
28th Aug 2021 at 6 pm IST. CSI, ACM & IEEE CS
Webinar on Demystifying CI/CD and DevOps
Speaker: Mr. Sridhar Pandurangiah, Chief Technology Officer, Sastra Technologies Pvt Ltd
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11th Sep 2021 at 6 pm IST. ACM, IEEE CS & CSI
Webinar on Beyond ERPs -- Next Gen Technologies
Speaker: Mr. Sandeep Desai, CEO, Darwish Cybertech India Pvt Ltd, Pune, Author of books on: ERP, Software Testing, and UML Modelling
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