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6May By AnkitaNo Comments

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TCS Open Drones Research Lab in US

Countrys largest IT exporter TCS today said it has opened a special facility in Ohio, US to conduct research on drone usage across industries. "Forward-thinking companies worldwide are at different stages of exploring drone technology to reimagine existing operational processes and transform the way they do business," its chief technology officer K Ananth Krishnan said. The TCS Drones Research Lab at Cincinnatis Seven Hills Park Innovation Center includes indoor labs, showcase, warehouse, and outdoor terrain footprints, a company statement said. The lab provides experimentation and co-innovation environment for customers to build solutions for specific industry problems in accelerated 30-60-90-day delivery cycles, it added. It can be noted that the unmanned aerial vehicles are ...

Infosys to Hire 10,000 American Workers Over the Next Two Years

2May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Infosys to Hire 10,000 American Workers Over the Next Two Years

Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology and next-generation services, today announced that it plans to hire 10,000 American workers over the next two years. As part of this initiative, Infosys will open four new Technology and Innovation Hubs across the country focusing on cutting-edge technology areas, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, user experience, emerging digital technologies, cloud, and big data. These four hubs will not only have technology and innovation focus areas, but will closely serve clients in key industries such as financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, energy and more. The first hub, which will open in Indiana in August 2017, is expected to create 2,000 jobs by 2021 for American workers and will help boost Indiana's eco...

Elon Musk SpaceX Rocket Lifts Off Secret US Military Satellite

1May By reutersNo Comments

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Elon Musk SpaceX Rocket Lifts Off Secret US Military Satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Monday, carrying the company's first satellite for the U.S. military, and breaking a 10-year monopoly held by a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The 23-story tall rocket took off from its seaside launch pad at Kennedy Space Center at 7:15 a.m. EDT. It will put into orbit a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, an agency within the Defense Department that operates the nation's spy satellites. Nine minutes after takeoff, the rocket's main section touched down on a landing pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just south of NASA's spaceport. Last month, Space Exploration Technologies Corp flew its first recovered booster on a second mission, a key step in company founder Elon Musk's quest ...

New Digital Map to Track Racial Diversity in US

23Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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New Digital Map to Track Racial Diversity in US

Scientists in the US have created the most detailed digital map to track the changing racial diversity of every neighbourhood in the country. Researchers from University of Cincinnati (UC) in the US applied NASA map making techniques to 20 years of data collected by the US Census Bureau to build one of the most detailed racial-diversity maps ever created. They take advantage of NASA land-cover grids made up of 30-square-metre blocks. Using this grid system, they can more precisely group people where they actually live by recognising lakes, parks, factories and otherwise uninhabitable areas. Researchers combined land-cover mapping techniques with cumbersome volumes of federal data collected every 10 years in the census. The zoomable map shows at a glance how the racial compositi...

Indian American CEO Ordered to Pay $135K to Former Worker

19Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Indian American CEO Ordered to Pay $135K to Former Worker

An Indian-American CEO has been ordered to pay USD 135,000 to her former domestic worker after a Labour Department investigation found she underpaid and mistreated her. Himanshu Bhatia, CEO of Rose International and IT Staffing, will have to pay her former live-in domestic service worker back wages and damages under the terms of a consent judgement entered into the US District Court for the Central District of California. Ads by ZINC The judgement, entered on April 11, resolves a complaint filed by the US Department of Labour in August last year. An investigation by the departments Wage and Hour Division found that Bhatia willfully and repeatedly violated federal labour laws minimum wage and record keeping provisions from July 2012 to December 2014. The complaint alleged that...

Hyperloop One Unveils its Vision for America, Details 11 Routes as a Part of Global Challenge

8Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Hyperloop One Unveils its Vision for America, Details 11 Routes as a Part of Global Challenge

Executives from Hyperloop One joined leading policymakers and transportation experts here today to reveal details of select Hyperloop routes in the United States and to initiate a nationwide conversation about the future of American transportation. Of more than 2,600 participants in the Hyperloop One Global Challenge, 11 teams presented routes, linking 35 states and covering more than 4,200 miles. They join 24 other teams from around the globe, each vying to be among 12 finalists. Three eventual winners will work closely with Hyperloop One engineering and business development teams to explore project development and financing. "Hyperloop One is the only company in the world building an operational commercial Hyperloop system," said Rob Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer of Hyperloop One....

Uber Resumes Driverless Car Programme After Crash in Arizona

28Mar By reutersNo Comments

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Uber Resumes Driverless Car Programme After Crash in Arizona

Driverless vehicles operated by Uber Technologies Inc were back on the road in San Francisco on Monday after one of its self-driving cars crashed in Arizona, the ride-hailing company said. Uber's autonomous vehicles in Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, remained grounded but were expected to be operating again soon, according to a spokeswoman for the company, who refused to be identified. "We are resuming our development operations in San Francisco this morning," she said in an email. Uber's San Francisco program is currently in development mode. It has two cars registered with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, but is not transporting passengers. The spokeswoman said because of this, the company felt confident in putting the cars back on the road while it investig...

Mc’Donald’s Trumpet’ – Company Apologises For Hacked Tweet Slamming US President

17Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Mc’Donald’s Trumpet’ – Company Apologises For Hacked Tweet Slamming US President

AFP- McDonald's apologized Thursday after it briefly posted on Twitter a blast criticizing President Donald Trump, which the company blamed on a hack from an external source. They quickly deleted the tweet and offered an uncharitable appraisal of Trump, saying, "You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have Barack Obama back, also you have tiny hands." The tweet was removed mid-morning Thursday soon after being posted to one of McDonald's official Twitter feeds -- but not before being retweeted more than a thousand times and garnering plenty of attention in political and media circles. "Based on our investigation, we have determined that our Twitter account was hacked by an external source," said McDonald's spokeswoman Terri Hickey in a statement. ...

San Francisco University Lays Off Its IT Workers, Outsourced Their Work To India

1Mar By reutersNo Comments

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San Francisco University Lays Off Its IT Workers, Outsourced Their Work To India

San Francisco: The University of California, San Francisco on Tuesday laid off 49 information technology (IT) employees and outsourced their work to a company based in India, ending a year-long process that has brought the public university under fire. The university announced the plan last July as a way to save $30 million over five years. The University of California system, which includes health care and research-focused UCSF, has been struggling to raise revenue and cut expenses. Globalization and outsourcing have become hot-button political issues in the United States, as more employers cut costs by farming out work to low-cost workers in far-flung parts of the world. President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to restore lost U.S. jobs and to penalize companies that move fact...

Amazon Pumping Nearly $1.5 bn Into US Air Freight Hub

1Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Amazon Pumping Nearly $1.5 bn Into US Air Freight Hub

Online retail colossus Amazon said it will strengthen its distribution muscle, and create US jobs, by building its first air freight hub, an investment of nearly USD 1.5 billion. A hub for the company's growing fleet of Prime Air cargo planes will be built at an airport in northern Kentucky, adding more than 2,000 workers to the approximately 10,000 people it already employs at fulfillment centers in that state. Seattle-based Amazon did not specify the amount of the investment, but the local economic development organization placed the figure at USD 1.49 billion. The spot for the hub was chosen for reasons that included being a centralised location for moving goods, according to Amazon senior vice president of worldwide operations Dave Clark. Eager to decrease its dependence on sh...

Amazon’s Flying Warehouse to Launch Drones For Fast Delivery

31Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Amazon’s Flying Warehouse to Launch Drones For Fast Delivery

American e-commerce giant Amazon will fly a warehouse at an altitude of around 45,000 feet that would act as a launchpad for drones, with an aim to deliver consignments in a jiffy, media reports said today. Amazon, after winning a patent for flying the warehouse in the US, announced plans for an "airborne fulfillment center" (AFC) such as an airship, CNBC reported. The airship will be stocked with lots of products and would float at an altitude of around 45,000 feet, it said. When a customer places an order, a drone or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will fly down and deliver the parcels. Amazon said the process would require little power as the drone would be gliding down rather than having to take off and land. "When the UAV departs the AFC, it may descend from the high altitude ...

Regtech’ Startups See More Business in Trump Era

24Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Regtech’ Startups See More Business in Trump Era

President elect Donald Trump is pro-business and anti-red tape. But what if your business is red tape? Companies whose technology helps banks and investors cope with the welter of post financial crisis regulations and avoid increasingly hefty fines - a sector known as "regtech" - are sanguine about Trump's pledge to dismantle some of those reforms. Their equanimity is based on a belief that if regulations are replaced rather than scrapped and the overall system of rules becomes more fragmented, financial firms will need their systems to navigate the new landscape. "Change is itself a driver of regtech adoption," said David Buxton, the chief executive of compliance startup Arachnys. "Volatility creates opportunity for relatively nimble regtech firms." Founded in London in 2010, Ara...