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Nara Lokesh on Vishakapatnam Data City: Andhra Pradesh at cusp of new revolution
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Nara Lokesh on Vishakapatnam Data City: Andhra Pradesh at cusp of new revolution

India Today  

Andhra Pradesh’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Nara Lokesh, outlined the state’s ambitious plans to build a cutting-edge Data City in Visakhapatnam. Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2025, He emphasised that Andhra Pradesh is poised to leapfrog into the next technological revolution by leveraging its high-quality workforce, enabling business-friendly ecosystems, and revamping education from KG to PG. Andhra Pradesh …

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Belying expectations: Five tech letdowns of 2024
3 months ago

Belying expectations: Five tech letdowns of 2024

Live Mint  

Generative AI has shown immense potential since OpenAI’s ChatGPT gained over 100 million users within two months of its launch in December 2022. Whatever data Smart City 1.0 is producing in 100 smart cities will come to the data exchange, called Urban India Data Exchange, which is fully funded by the ministry of housing and urban affairs. Hence, Google’s quantum …

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Laser-based lidar tech is rewriting history — if climate change doesn't erase it first
4 months ago

Laser-based lidar tech is rewriting history — if climate change doesn't erase it first

Salon  

Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during the Medieval era. Scientists still debate whether lidar stands for “laser imaging, detection and ranging” or “light detection and ranging.” Either acronym accurately summarizes the technology, which uses lasers to measure large areas by targeting a surface or object and measuring how long it …

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Hiranandani Group firm Yotta to set up 25,000 GPU supercomputer in Hyderabad’s AI City
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hiranandani Group firm Yotta to set up 25,000 GPU supercomputer in Hyderabad’s AI City

The Hindu  

Hiranandani Group company Yotta Data Services plans to establish an AI supercomputer powered by 25,000 GPUs in the AI City proposed be establish near Hyderabad by Telangana government. In the first phase, the supercomputer comprising 4,000 high performance GPUs and the first data centre within the campus, Yotta H1, will be operational within two years, the company said after it …

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Aurum Equity To Set Up USD 400 Million Centre in City
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Aurum Equity To Set Up USD 400 Million Centre in City

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In a significant announcement, Aurum Equity Partners announced an investment of $400 million in phases to build a next-generation, AI-powered, green data centre in the city after a meeting with Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and IT and industries minister D. Sridhar Babu at Palo Alto, California, on Friday. The company has now decided to establish a cutting-edge AI-powered …

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US cities cope with vacant offices, crime
8 months, 2 weeks ago

US cities cope with vacant offices, crime

China Daily  

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Thomas Tam, owner of Dragon Seed, a custom dress shop, sits behind his counter, observing pedestrians pass by his store. The city's overall office vacancy rate stood at 36.8 percent in the second quarter, according to data from real estate firm CBRE. Oakland's downtown office-vacancy rate hit 21.2 percent in the first quarter this year, a …

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Telangana police arrested Hawkeye app hacker
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana police arrested Hawkeye app hacker

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Cyber Security Bureau police arrested a hacker involved in breaching the ‘Hawkeye’ mobile app. The CSB registered a case based on the data breach involving Hawkeye, with subsequent reports on the TSCOP and police SMS services apps, Director-General of Police Ravi Gupta said in a press release on Sunday. “Therefore, certain related media reports that appeared in newspapers …

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NCRB data: Crime against women rose by 28.34% in 2022; Pune records rise in cybercrime cases
1 year, 3 months ago

NCRB data: Crime against women rose by 28.34% in 2022; Pune records rise in cybercrime cases

Hindustan Times  

The crimes against women, Scheduled Castes, economic offences and cyber crimes rose by 28.34 %, 90.62 %, 45.10 % and 58.67 % respectively. However, crimes against children were reduced by 12.33 % in Pune city in 2022, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau annual report. As far as cyber crimes are concerned, it has increased by 58.67 % …

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Urban India’s 3D digital twins are on their way to be born
1 year, 10 months ago

Urban India’s 3D digital twins are on their way to be born

Live Mint  

BENGALURU : India may soon join the ranks of cities and countries such as Singapore, Yingtan in China, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Auckland, Helinski, and US states such as Boston, Colarado and Orlando that have built digital twins to enhance their efficiency, coordination and governance. Mumbai-based Genesys International, a geospatial products and solutions firm that announced plans to create a Digital …

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Qingdao's digital transformation to bolster development
1 year, 11 months ago

Qingdao's digital transformation to bolster development

China Daily  

Qingdao in Shandong province Qingdao in East China's Shandong province has taken digital transformation as the key to urban construction and the advancement of its economic and social development. To cater to the needs of enterprises and the public, Qingdao has built the province's first comprehensive service platform titled One Code Connecting the City to simplify administrative approval procedures, improve …

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Jio 5G now available in 17 more cities, check if your city is on the list
2 years, 1 month ago

Jio 5G now available in 17 more cities, check if your city is on the list

India Today  

Reliance Jio is deploying its 5G services at a fast pace. In a recent development, Jio has announced that it has launched 5G in 17 more cities in India including Rishikesh and Shimla. Dubbed Jio True 5G, the fifth-generation network is now available across 257 Indian cities. -- To activate Jio 5G on an Android phone- Open the phone's Settings> …

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New York COVID hospitalizations top 5,500
3 years, 3 months ago

New York COVID hospitalizations top 5,500

Daily Mail  

The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with COVID ballooned over Christmas, with more than 5,500 people spending their holidays inside one of New York's many hospital facilities - the largest increase since February. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced that hospitalizations have increased over Christmas As of Monday, there were 5,526 New Yorkers in the hospital - the first time the …

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Queens, NY shooting: 10 year old boy killed after shots fire at home Far Rockaway neighborhood
3 years, 9 months ago

Queens, NY shooting: 10 year old boy killed after shots fire at home Far Rockaway neighborhood

CNN  

CNN — A 10-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday night when an unknown shooter fired numerous rounds at a home in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, according to the New York Police Department. Police said they responded to a call of “persons shot” at around 9:33 p.m. and found 10-year-old Justin Wallace “unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot …

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Mumbai: 88,710 coronavirus cases in March, 443.30% rise as compared to Jan
3 years, 11 months ago

Mumbai: 88,710 coronavirus cases in March, 443.30% rise as compared to Jan

India Today  

Mumbai in Maharashtra continues to combat the novel coronavirus. According to data accumulated by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the city reported 88,710 coronavirus cases in March this year, nearly 443.30 per cent more cases than January's infection count and 383.20 per cent more than February's count. Death toll in Mumbai rises According to the data, coronavirus claimed 216 lives in …

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Around 30 Percent Non-resident Covid-19 Patients Admitted to Delhi Hospitals in August: Govt Data
4 years, 6 months ago

Around 30 Percent Non-resident Covid-19 Patients Admitted to Delhi Hospitals in August: Govt Data

News 18  

Around 30 per cent of the coronavirus patients admitted to Delhi hospitals in August were from other states, according to government data. The AAP dispensation, in June, had predicted an exponential rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the national capital and decided to reserve beds in Delhi government-run hospitals only for city residents. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain …

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Data | What made migrants return to their villages, how they travelled back, and more
4 years, 7 months ago

Data | What made migrants return to their villages, how they travelled back, and more

The Hindu  

The most common reason that migrants gave for returning to their village from the city was COVID-19, according to the Gaon Connection and Lokniti-CSDS COVID Rural Survey 2020. One in four migrants either walked, cycled or travelled back to their village in hand-pulled rickshaws. How to read the tables The survey is based on face-to-face interviews with 963 migrants in …

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Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane rental vacancy rates double, tripling and quadrupling in a year
4 years, 9 months ago

Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane rental vacancy rates double, tripling and quadrupling in a year

Daily Mail  

Renters wanting to live in a major city centre are in prime position to secure a bargain, with the level of empty properties in central business districts either doubling, tripling or quadrupling in just a year. Residential vacancy rates in Sydney's central business district have continued to increase, rising from 13.8 per cent in April to 16.2 per cent in …

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Los Angeles is tracking every person who rides a rental scooter
4 years, 9 months ago

Los Angeles is tracking every person who rides a rental scooter

Salon  

The American Civil Liberties Union announced Monday that it is filing a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for a mass surveillance program that tracked every person who rode an electric rental scooter within the city limits. "The issues surrounding the unlicensed, unregulated collection of sensitive information about people are myriad," Tajsar explained, pointing out that there are different …

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Leaked: Trump coronavirus task force report reveals cases still spiking in rural US areas
4 years, 10 months ago

Leaked: Trump coronavirus task force report reveals cases still spiking in rural US areas

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Coronavirus infections are spiking …

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The data shows how the coronavirus shutdown transformed life in Australia's most isolated city
4 years, 11 months ago

The data shows how the coronavirus shutdown transformed life in Australia's most isolated city

ABC  

Not even being one of the most isolated cities in the world could protect Perth from being almost completely shut down by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Using wi-fi sensors to gauge people's movements around densely populated areas, the city has recorded an almost 80 per cent drop in CBD activity on Friday evenings — usually the busiest night of the …

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Next Big Thing: ‘Watson’ the AI tech that puts you on the pitch and predicted Mahrez’s move to Man City
5 years, 1 month ago

Next Big Thing: ‘Watson’ the AI tech that puts you on the pitch and predicted Mahrez’s move to Man City

New York Times  

It is Anfield, January 30, 2019 and I am stood on the pitch next to Ricardo Pereira as Liverpool mount an early attack towards the Anfield Road end. “Show me all the Liverpool set plays!” “Show me Jamie Vardy’s key moments!” This is the natural evolution from the technical analysis that has made such a huge impact in football over …

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Los Angeles hate crime numbers rose 40% last year, compared to 2016, officials say
5 years, 2 months ago

Los Angeles hate crime numbers rose 40% last year, compared to 2016, officials say

CNN  

CNN — The number of hate crimes reported in Los Angeles last year rose about 10% from 2018 – and it was more than 40% higher than in 2016, a City Councilman says. Anti-Jewish hate crimes alone were up 60.5% over 2018 in the nation’s second-largest city, and represented the largest single category in 2019 – 69 of 322 total …

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Now, standardized data to help rate performance of cities
6 years, 10 months ago

Now, standardized data to help rate performance of cities

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India’s cities are notoriously non-transparent. “We signed up to be part of the global ISO standard since we are anyway collecting all this data on livability,” said Raj Cherubal, chief executive officer of Chennai Smart City Ltd. “Given the current level of inequality in our cities, how do we know what citizens want? Among the five cities, Ahmedabad …

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Climate change and the social contract: How our choices lead to predictable tragedies
7 years, 7 months ago

Climate change and the social contract: How our choices lead to predictable tragedies

Firstpost  

Editor’s note: From May 2017, Firstpost is featuring a fortnightly column by Mridula Ramesh, titled ‘Climate Conversations’. In a previous column, we saw how our societal choices — building over water bodies, dumping rubbish in rivers and allowing slums to come up on river banks — join hands with climate change and makes the sting so much sharper. Dr J …

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