Welcome to FutureTech interview series. A series of delightful interact with innovators, leaders and outstanding scientists.We are presenting the interaction with Dr Pravat Kumar Mandal, a scientist from National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Gurugram. He is a PhD from IIT Madras. He participated in clinical residence program University of Pittsburgh Medical Science. He worked as assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Science. He also worked as Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, John Hopkins Medical School. What is Alzheimer’s disease? What are the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease?…
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Artificial intelligence being a major theme at the world’s largest tech show this year in Las Vegas by JAN 2019.
The use of AI is extending day-by-day.From home products to entertainment, health to sports, artificial intelligence is in everything.Most trending virtual assistants of the year 2018, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant are said to dominate the show as both are enabled in more than 10,000 devices.Keynote speakers will make the case on how robotics and AI can help to solve the world’s most complex issues. Lots of new gadgets will be launched at the show-by the electronic companies all over the world.
Read MoreChanging trends in the Smartphone market in India
Last year the Indian smartphone market witnessed a huge change, where big screens phones were leading among the users and camera quality was one of the prominent feature users were looking for. Here are some of the statistics which will give you a glimpse of the scenario, 75% of smartphones launched in India, were under the price segment of Rs. 20,000 Nearly 61% of phones were released with the screen size of 5.6 inches and above 92% of the phones above Rs, 10,000 had bigger displays with 18:9 or higher…
Read MoreWhatsApp to face some new challenges this year: Election Fake News and Spamming
With 250 million users WhatsApp has created an impact full digital network. Fake news is not something new for WhatsApp users, people have already faced fake news at the time of demonetization & cases of lynching has been increased rapidly over the previous years. India is set to conduct elections this year, Whatsapp and social media platforms have become a tool for political parties advertisement, misleading information, and manipulation of voters. Since WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption for all messages, it’d have to break it to trace messages. The firm has…
Read MoreWhy Indian Industry needs a Real Robotics Vision to Flourish
Robotics is transforming the world economy, now India has a chance to stand as a role model. Or, else India will become irrelevant. How will the Indian government and business leaders make a change in Indian economy? Indian industries have a new obstacle in their way – robots. Thankfully, research foundations and big MNC are already conscious of innovations ranging from nanotechnology and genomics to materials science and energy. However, robotics is one of the areas where India lacks and this could cause the most instant disturbance. Developed countries like…
Read MoreBabelfish a futuristic personal translator
How fascinating will it be if don’t have to face any language barriers? The world will become a more beautiful and socially active place to live in. Now roaming around the globe will not be a hectic task with these AI-Powered Babel-fish in-ear translator. While slashing out all linguistic barriers and making it possible for two people to communicate with each other in different native languages can ease the conversation level. Suppose you are enjoying your world tour and you are in France with zero knowledge of French and you…
Read MoreBook My Show
Have a look at the success story of online ticketing platform “BookMyShow†and how the mastermind behind the idea — Ashish Hemrajani, overcame obstacles. He turned his dreams into a multi-million dollar company.While he was sitting under a tree and enjoying to radio promoting Rugby tickets, an idea hit to his mind. He studied on his idea, understood the market and planned a strategy. Then came back to India, left his job directly and decided to start his own company. At the age of 24, he started his first ever…
Read MoreSwiggy
Who knew that two alumni of Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) PilaniNandan Reddy (29) and Sriharsha Majety (31), will become second time lucky entrepreneurs. Back in the year 2014, they came together for their first startup project, Bundl, a logistics aggregator, which associated small and medium companies to courier service providers. The business started off line. However, after nearly a year into it, they understood their focus needed to change from the courier service field to the food industry.While working with like-minded people. Nandan and Sriharsha somehow realized there…
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Two Bansals (Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal) started Flipkart 11 years ago in 2007. Even though they share the same last name and come from Chandigarh, they are not related. Just a batch apart in IIT-Delhi, they became close friends while working together at Amazon. Flipkart was started from a humble beginning two-bedroom apartment in Bengaluru’s Koramangala area as an online bookstore. No one imagined that it would go on to become the country’s largest e-commerce player.They opened their first office in Bengaluru in 2008 followed by offices in Delhi…
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