Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. First, let us understand what bioengineering is. Bioengineering is the application of the principles and design concepts of engineering to the study & manipulation of biological systems and the development of biological products. It is a broad field of study that includes a very wide range of disciplines from biomedical engineering to agricultural engineering and bioprocess engineering to environmental engineering. Bioengineering is a rapidly advancing field with varied applications. Bioengineering professionals are playing a crucial role in improving human health and well-being for mankind globally.

Innovations in bioengineering, like most fields of science and technology, are driven by academia, often through the startup route. We are seeing more and more companies and startups come up in the bioengineering space, pushing the biomedical world to be more innovative and creative than ever before. The market is huge. According to McKinsey Research, apart from the transformational benefits to human health & well-being as well as a more sustainably managed environment, just about 400 bioengineering use cases, almost all of which are scientifically feasible, could have an economic impact of approximately $2 trillion to $4 trillion per annum from 2030 to 2040.

As technologies evolve, the pace of innovation in bioengineering is also accelerating. According to SynBioBeta – a professional network for biological engineers, investment in synthetic biology companies raised about $4.6 billion in the first quarter of 2021 alone! This is more than four times the investment in the same quarter a year earlier.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. This week, we talk about something that the entire nation came together to celebrate – the Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-3 is the Indian lunar exploration mission under the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan program. The Chandrayaan-3 had a lander named Vikram and a rover named Pragyan, very similar to the previous edition of the Chandrayaan, Chandrayaan-2. The Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023 and it entered the lunar orbit on 5 August. On 23 August, the lander touched down on the South Pole of the moon, making India the fourth country to successfully land on the moon after Russia, USA, and China, and the first-ever country to land on the South Pole of the moon.

One technology that has played an important role in the success of this mission is artificial intelligence. Chandrayaan-3 has been able to greatly improve its planning, navigation, data analysis, and overall operational efficiency, thanks to artificial intelligence. Let us look at the information we could find on how artificial intelligence has contributed to the success of Chandrayaan-3.

A lot of algorithms are run to design and develop a space exploration mission vehicle. The Chandrayaan-3 is no exception. Artificial intelligence played a crucial role in developing the algorithms and then designing as well as developing the Vikram lander, the Pragyan rover, and the entire Chandrayaan-3. The design for the Chandrayaan-3 was optimized for weight, performance, and safety with the help of algorithms powered by artificial intelligence too.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. what is data hoarding. Data hoarding is the excessive collection and retention of data. It is also sometimes referred to as digital hoarding. It is a growing challenge in the tech space. Countless organizations have a field time keeping on purchasing more and more storage space to accommodate the growing amount of data. Not just structured data but unstructured data is also growing enormously, necessitating increasing amounts of precious storage space. This is also leading to a major problem of disconnected data silos. Just as hoarding things in real life can be a problem, and mind you, Marie Kondo wrote a whole book about dealing with this, hoarding in the digital world is also a problem. This commonly happens when organizations tend to save data, maybe out of habit, out of the fear of losing it, out of hope that it will be useful someday, or even simply because they didn’t know any better.

A new study has found that 47% of consumers would stop buying from a company that fails to control how much unnecessary or unwanted data it is storing. Compare this to the fact that in this environment, 60% of Gen Z consumers have online accounts that they no longer use, and about 69% have never tried to close these unused accounts. This was found in a study conducted by Veritas Technologies. Useless data about these accounts lies unused in data centers, which keep using up electricity and resources. Experts opine that such useless data could account for roughly 2% of all global carbon emissions. 2% may not sound like a lot but to put this in perspective, take this – this size of the carbon footprint is the same size of the entire airline industry put together, the entire global aviation industry together! Now does that feel huge? Data centers around the world run 24 by 7 and by 2030, they are expected to be using up about 8% of all electricity that gets produced on the planet.

In the middle of that is the fact that most consumers are absolutely unaware of the impact of their own carbon footprint. 44% of the consumers surveyed said that it was wrong for businesses to waste energy and cause pollution by storing unnecessary information online. However, 51% also believe that electronic versions of their account-related statements and other documents stored online do not have any negative environmental impact. The Veritas study also found that 49% of the consumers surveyed thought that it was the responsibility of the organizations that store this data to delete it when it is no longer required or useful.

There is a slightly older study, conducted again, by Veritas Research, which found that about 35% of the enterprise data is dark. Dark data means that the data has an unknown value. It also found that about 50% of the data stored by organizations is redundant, obsolete, or trivial. A good move in this direction is that a lot of companies are now including the environmental impact of their data storage in their corporate environmental, social, and governance reports.

According to a report by the IDC, about 60% of the storage budget is not really spent on storage. Instead, it is spent on secondary copies of data for data protection, such as backups, backup software licenses, replication, and disaster recovery. It also found that about one-third of IT organizations are spending most of their IT storage on this secondary data. This makes it important for organizations to define cold data storage strategies and work on establishing unstructured data management policies. The risk of not identifying and eliminating unnecessary data, basically the risk of not stopping data hoarding is too huge to ignore any longer.

welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. What is digital trust. According to the World Economic Forum, digital trust is an individual’s expectation that digital technologies and services, as well as the organizations that provide them, would protect the interests of the stakeholders, and do their bit to uphold societal expectations & values. Now, we agree, that that is a very heavy definition. Let us try to break it down and simplify it a little bit. According to TechTarget, digital trust is the confidence the users have in the ability of the people, technologies, and processes to create a secure digital world. Now that’s much simpler and easier to comprehend, isn’t it? So, by extension, when an individual or a business decides to use another individual or business’ digital products or services, they confirm that they have digital trust in the business.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. we are going to talk about a new programming language that is becoming incredibly popular among AI developers, the language is a perfect fit for working with artificial intelligence, it is very simple and user-friendly like Python, and it is as quick as Rust, and has the performance and control like C++. Now, let’s take a second to just appreciate how awesome that is!

If you have been keeping up with the news recently, then you would surely have heard about how OpenAI, the company that created the world-famous generative AI tool – ChatGPT is on the verge of bankruptcy and how it is burning cash every day to keep the tool going. And, if you didn’t know that already, now you do. According to a report by Analytics India Magazine, OpenAI might go bankrupt by the end of 2024. The report adds that ChatGPT, one of OpenAI’s most important and most popular products is losing popularity and it is costing the company about $700,000 every single day to maintain ChatGPT. We would also like to refresh our listeners’ memories that Microsoft is OpenAI’s single biggest investor, having invested $10 billion in OpenAI. The competition in the Generative AI tools market is seriously heating up and the newest kid on the block, Llama 2, which is a partnership between Meta and Microsoft is the latest competitor for ChatGPT. But Microsoft has already integrated GPT into its products like Bing Chat and Windows Copilot. It also very recently released the Azure ChatGPT as part of its Azure cloud universe.

we talk about something that has now become more than a menace and is threatening both individuals as well as enterprises. At some point, we are sure you have heard about this technology, maybe in the newspapers, online portals, or your Google Discover feed. We are talking about ‘Deepfakes’. These deepfakes are becoming a huge threat to everyone. In this episode, we will cover what are deepfakes, and how they are posing a threat to enterprises.

So, first, let us understand what are deepfakes. If you have come across the video that went viral in which Barack Obama called Donald Trump some expletives or Mark Zuckerberg announced that he had complete, total control of billions of people’s stolen data or even the one where popular Game of Thrones character, Jon Snow, delivers a moving apology for the dismal ending of the otherwise very famous show? If you have, then you have encountered a deepfake. In a way, deepfakes are the 21st-century version of Photoshop. Remember those times when pictures could be doctored easily using Photoshop and anybody could be inserted into any backdrop, doing anything in pictures? Deepfakes are an unscrupulous menace along the same lines. Deepfakes are fake pictures or videos or even audio generated using a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning, hence the name – deep fake. If you want to dance like a pro or just star in your favorite movie with all your favorite stars, you could make a deep fake and be a part of the next Christopher Nolan masterpiece!

Deepfakes are not going away anytime soon, they would continue to threaten individuals and enterprises. Organizations need to pull up their socks and stay proactive to safeguard themselves against such deepfake attacks. Get your workforce upskilled to top-notch cybersecurity skills, and invest in building a strong, responsible, and resilient brand. The rest of the story is for time and fate to tell.

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The ITIL 4 certifications required to be updated only when a new update to the ITIL library was released. For instance, anybody with the ITIL v3 certification was required to take an ITIL 4 Managing Professionals exam after a short re-training to upgrade their credentials to ITIL 4. This way, once the library was updated, one could transition to the latest update to keep their credentials current. However, from January 2023, all ITIL 4 certifications would be issued with a renew-by date that would be three years from the award date. Any certification holders who do not renew their certifications within three years of the award date will still be a part of the Successful Candidates Register but a note will be added to their record to indicate that their certification is not aligned with the current certification requirements.

So, if you are someone who has pursued their ITIL certification in 2023, or are planning to pursue it in the future, your certification comes with a renew-by date which would be exactly three years from the award date of the certification. But what if you already had an ITIL 4 certification, something you earned already before 2023? In that case, this is what you can do:

If you were certified before 30 June 2020, you have until 1 June 2023 to choose to renew your ITIL 4 certification, irrespective of when the certification was issued. If you were certified after June 2020, you will have the option of renewing your certificate within three years of the original award date.

If you are wondering how you can find out what your renew-by date is, allow us to help. You need to log into your PeopleCert account to get all the information about your ITIL 4 certification.

The Scrum Product Owner is a stakeholder with a deep understanding of the product as well as the market. A Scrum Product Owner is responsible for the product backlog. A product backlog is a list of features and requirements for the product. The Scrum Product Owner ensures the product backlog is complete, accurate, and appropriately prioritized. Their role also involves working with the development teams to ensure that the items in the product backlog are delivered appropriately to meet user and customer needs.

a Scrum Product Owner is someone who makes the final decisions about the features that will be offered by a product. They need to be very good business analysts. They need to have a very strong understanding of the business strategy and objectives. They are the ones who keep the development teams in line with the company’s vision and business. Additionally, and very importantly, they must be excellent communicators. They must be constantly communicating with internal and external stakeholders, as well as with the team members, so they can’t afford to have a communication gap or any drop in communications.

if you are beginning to wonder how the role of a Scrum Product Owner is different from the role of a Scrum Master, fret not, we are going to answer that too.

While both Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owners play very important roles in an Agile environment. However, they work together closely. The Scrum Master is the leader of the Agile team and they support the Scrum Product Owner by sharing updates with team members and employees. In contrast, the Scrum Product Owner manages the product backlog while ensuring the company derives maximum value from the product.