A challenge on the data science community site Kaggle is asking great minds to apply machine learning to battle the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. As COVID-19 continues to spread uncontrolled around the world, shops and restaurants have closed their doors, information workers have moved home, other businesses have shut down entirely, and people are social distancing […]
Archives for March 2020
Extending the power of Azure AI to Microsoft 365 users
Today, Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Modern Life and Devices, announced the availability of new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions. In his blog, he shared a few examples of how Microsoft 365 is innovating to deliver experiences powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to billions of users every day. Whether through familiar products like […]
Indian healthcare companies see big boost with govt move on telemedicine
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi The government’s recent notification regulating telemedicine amid the Covid-19 pandemic has given a boost to the business of healthtech startups operating in the segment, despite certain restrictions imposed on prescribing medicines to first-time patients. mfine, 1MG, and Practo expect more hospitals and doctors to line up to teleconsult on the platforms, as […]
Presentation: What Does It Mean to Be a Data Scientist? Definitions and Lessons Learned from the Trenches
InfoQ Homepage Presentations What Does It Mean to Be a Data Scientist? Definitions and Lessons Learned from the Trenches AI, ML & Data Engineering Like Bookmarks View Presentation Vertical Horizontal Full Speed: 1x 1.5x 2x Summary Brian Korzynski discusses what Data Science and Big Data are, focusing on the data preparation that needs to take […]
Mother Dairy seeks to use e-grocers’ network
Mother Dairy, one of India’s leading dairy companies, has written to major food e-commerce players, including BigBasket, Milkbasket and Supr Daily, to operate as a team to maintain a smooth supply of milk. Senior executives at Mother Dairy said the dairy giant is ready to increase production and use the distribution network of the online […]
E-tail to take $1 billion hit in lockdown
The 21-day lockdown will lead to a loss of at least $1 billion in gross sales as India’s largest online retail platforms like Amazon and Flipkart stop selling non-essentials till at least the middle of next month, based on current government directives. What’s of further concern is that the online retail players are expected to […]
As Covid-19 cases rise in India, tech-based health surveillance intensifies
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Owing to the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases across the country, state governments and large municipalities are coming up with strict surveillance mechanisms to ensure that those quarantined adhere to the norms, and stay at home. Health surveillance in this context seems to be taking multiple forms — a mixture of human […]
As India connects, data loses speed
Consumers of mobile and home broadband services, especially those in urban areas, have seen their network speeds slow down by around 20% because of a surge in consumption of up to 30% on an average, especially of videos. This is expected to get worse, with speeds likely to slow by another 25-30%, as internet usage […]
Retail Pooling: Online, offline firms share staff to deliver food, groceries
Food and grocery retailers and e-grocers have started to utilise available manpower resources of other e-commerce ventures to augment their last-mile delivery, to tide over an acute shortage of workers. Some e-grocers have also agreed to pick and deliver orders from local kiranas and supermarkets to customers, three industry executives said. Leading national and local […]
Colleges extend decision deadline due to coronavirus as new students reconsider
College acceptance letters are already in the mail. Now high school seniors must decide their fate for September. Up until now, National College Decision Day, the deadline for high school seniors to choose which college they will attend, has always been May 1. This year, however, the global coronavirus pandemic and extreme economic uncertainty have pushed many […]