Emerging Technology

India needs to promote and form Green Hydrogen Corridors, says NITI Aayog

India needs to form Green Hydrogen Corridors and governments can look at providing grants to startups as well as support entrepreneurs to promote green hydrogen, NITI Aayog said on Wednesday. In a report titled 'Harnessing Green Hydrogen - Opportunities for Deep Decarbonisation in India', the Aayog also suggested that there is a need to facilitate investment through demand aggregation and dollar-based bidding for green hydrogen. "Three hydrogen corridors should be developed across the country based on state grand challenges ... The governments can provide grants and loans to startups and projects, support entrepreneurs through incubators and investor networks, and put in place regulations that manage first-mover risks, " the report said. The government can also use public procurement and purchase incentives (for green hydrogen) to create demand in niche markets and crowd in private investment, it added. The report suggested that the government should promote export of green hydrog

Software products sector a key growth driver for India, shows data

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India climbing up the ladder of emerging tech patents, shows data

5,000 patents were filed in AI in India in the decade 2011-2020

The top technology buzzwords of 2021

Will Metaverse, Web 3.0, Blockchain and NFT change everything as promised by expanding our virtual universe? Or they are only hype? Find out about these technologies which became buzzwords of 2021

TMS Ep76: Newsmakers of 2021, markets in 2022, tech buzzwords

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Seeing the past with futuristic eyes

Images taken remotely by underwater robots or flying drones can be stitched together to create a 360-degree view of an archaeological site with the help of photogrammetry

A Quad alliance for emerging technology

While fear of Chinese tech domination brings together the large democracies, India has announced collaborations in defence security systems driven by emerging tech, including drone manufacturing

Carbon neutrality powered by AI

Countries like India, which are leading the adoption of climate change measures, will have to encourage energy companies to embrace higher levels of AI usage

5G's bouquet of promises: A technology that can change our lives forever

With the myriad possibilities that super high speeds and ultra-low latency could bring, telcos in India are looking at killer applications to attract consumers initially

Digitising India with high investments in automation

In adoption of emerging technologies, banking and financial services have already set the pace of transformation

Indian tech services can touch revenues of $300-350 bn in next 5 years

According to a report by McKinsey & Company for Nasscom titled 'Future of Technology Services-Winning in this decade', tech spending is only going to be intensified in the next decade

Robotic futures

Book review of GENIUS MAKERS: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

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Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The future of technology services: Talent war to intensify for Digital 2.0

A report released by NASSCOM and McKinsey & Company highlights the tectonic shifts in the technology services landscape which will play out in the next three to five years

Discoms discover tech, aim to automate grid operations for service delivery

Adani Electricity Mumbai (AEML), for instance, is upgrading its grid infrastructure with investments in automation and using technology-enabled service delivery, processes and training modules

India leads the mobile-first consumer economy amid Covid-19, shows data

While Covid-19 catalysed several trends, it most importantly fast-tracked the transition to a mobile-first world.

Govt's Co-WIN app to track both Covid-19 vaccine and its recipients

Experts say technologies such as IoT, AI, machine learning and blockchain play a key role in tracking these vaccines and detecting any changes

Management by algorithm? How businesses should work in the AI era

It is time we reimagined management education in a way that students build an understanding of AI, its usage and application in business, all the while honing their soft skills

Nationalism will drive global alliances in 2021

The era of tech nationalism launched with India banning Chinese tech platforms and telecom equipment

The promise of techno-nationalism

Techno-nationalism sees nation states using their superiority in specific technologies rise up the global hierarchy and dominate other nations