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How Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts are helping millions get quality healthcare
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WHO unveils digital health promoter harnessing generative AI for public health
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,Director-General, WHO S.A.R.A.H.,...
Self-driving cars ‘learn’ to predict pedestrian movement
Equipping vehicles with the necessary predictive power requires the network to dive into the minutiae of human movement: the pace of a human’s gait (periodicity), the mirror symmetry of limbs, and the way in which foot placement affects stability during walking
Google, Amazon expanding smart home device data gathering
The commercial success of voice assistants has bolstered dozens of companies working to build interest in internet-enabled televisions, kitchen appliances and other devices. Many people first start tinkering with connected appliances after buying a smart speaker. Surveys show about a quarter of U.S. smart speaker owners regularly use them to control something else, a percentage analysts expect to rise.
Insuring The Sharing Economy
As traditional ways of doing business become more fluid, new risks and uncertainties are emerging. In particular, many sharing economy companies currently assert that whatever happens in the course of a peer-to-peer transaction is between the participants and all they are doing is supplying the platform.
`Regulatory Sanbox: IRDAI Irdai to allow testing of products before launch
The applicant can apply in any one of more of the five categories namely insurance solicitation or distribution, insurance products, underwriting, policy and claims servicing and any other. The applicant could apply singly or jointly in one or more than one category, provided that if the category involves insurance product or underwriting, then the applicant necessarily has to partner with an insurer.
Automation impact: 76 per cent Indian employers plan to increase, maintain headcount
“As more and more robots are being added to the workforce, we, as leaders, must ensure that humans are integrated with machines, as this is the need of the hour,” said Manmeet Singh, President ? Experis, ManpowerGroup India
Budget 2019: India to lead the world in transportation through EVs, says FM
Electric vehicle sales in India are expected to be 30 per cent of total sales by 2030. According to Niti Aayog estimates, EV sales are expected to touch around 25.36 million units in India in 2030.
Accenture Software now does what 40,000 employees used to do
Accenture’s clients can also set custom rules for whether a system will process something automatically based on how much confidence the artificial intelligence software has in its own predictions. For instance, if a system were handling routine insurance claims, a company might allow it to automatically pay those claims as long as it had at least a 95 percent confidence that the decision was correct, Polishook said. If its confidence fell below that threshold, then the claim would be routed to a human claims handler.
Chickens that lay eggs with anti-cancer drugs
After researchers from the University of Edinburgh spliced a human gene into the chickens’ DNA, the animals began laying eggs boasting a significant amount of two proteins used to treat diseases including cancer in humans — and the process, they say, is far cheaper than current methods of protein production.
Will robotaxis really take off?
It seems increasingly likely that aerospace companies and startups are rushing to embrace a world of vertical take-off robotaxis
Swiss Re makes digital side-bet as premiums languish
“It means the whole value chain is under significant pressure…Costs have become much more important over the last years and for the foreseeable future, so there will be continual pressure on costs, and not just for Swiss Re.”