Todays News: 1) India-born chief of Google’s Android unit, Sundar Pichai, will now lead the US-based search engine giant’s global products business as part of management reorganisation. 2) China plans to abolish the death penalty for nine crimes out of the 55 that are punishable by death in the country, as the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced broad changes to its legal system. 3) UNICEF warns India against Polio risk as cases rise in Pakistan. 4) Scientists have developed a new portable device that can correctly measure a patients blood for the effects of methotrexate, a commonly used but potentially toxic cancer drug, in less than a minute. 5) The government is working on an ambitious plan to create a $15-billion (roughly Rs. 92,000 crores) Internet of Things industry in the next six years. Internet of Things, or IoT, can be loosely described as a network of inter-connected devices that can be accessed through the Internet. For instance, with IoT, connected street lights can be made to automatically go off when they sense no traffic on the roads and consequently save power. Another application could be the use of a connected smart band that will automatically alert physicians when a patients body vitals go to abnormal levels.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:57:32 +0000
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