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TechGarlic TechGarlic is IoT based AI platform and applications help Privately held or Government based manufacturers to predict and control the current and future state of their manufacturing capacities to improve batch operations, decrease waste, reduce the need for quality checks, and deliver better product faster.

Purpose-built for manufacturing engineers, reliability experts, and data scientists, the AI Platform is used by manufacturers to apply machine learning, analytics, and edge computing to solve very real challenges in their process manufacturing efforts. By harnessing the power of data and AI.

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ওবায়দুরের স্মার্ট সেচব্যবস্থায় এখন যুক্ত অনেক কৃষক, যে সুফল পাচ্ছেন তাঁরা স্মার্ট ইরিগেশন সিস্টেম বানিয়েছেন ওবায়দুর।

𝐏𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!

As we bid farewell to the bygones, Tech Garlic is gearing up for a year of innovation and growth! 🎉🚀 Shedding the layers of the old, we're ready to unveil a future filled with groundbreaking tech harvests and endless possibilities.

🌱 𝐏𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬: Just like garlic sheds its outer layers, Tech Garlic is shedding outdated norms and embracing cutting-edge solutions. Step into the future with us as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of technology. 🌐💻

🚀 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 2023 is all about savoring the unique blend of innovation that Tech Garlic brings to the IT farm. Get ready to taste the flavors of groundbreaking ideas, tech trends, and solutions that will spice up your digital journey. 🌶️💡

🌐 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡, 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: Tech Garlic, with its iconic symbol, is more than an IT farm—it's a cultivator of growth and change. Join us in nurturing ideas, fostering collaboration, and harvesting success in the vast fields of technology. 🌱🌐

🎊 Let's Toast to a Year of Tech Brilliance! 🥂✨ As we peel off the layers of the old, we invite you to savor the richness of the future with Tech Garlic. May 2023 be a year filled with fruitful collaborations, technological breakthroughs, and a bountiful harvest of success!

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗰!

We are thrilled to declare that TechGarlic has received the ASOCIO 2023 ICT Award. This prestigious award aims to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the utilization and implementation of digital technologies across Asian Oceanian Countries.

1988, two Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin envisioned to organize the vast amount of data available on the internet. They embarked on a journey to revolutionize the way we search for information.

In its early days, Google faced challenges in the crowded market, which was dominated by giants like AltaVista and Yahoo.

In the pool of these challenges, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had a master plan; they believed that the relevance of a webpage should be determined by analyzing links from reputable resources ; this belief fueled their page rank algorithm, which set them apart.

Securing its significant investment in the year 1999, they established their headquarters in Menlo Park, California. This humble beginning was the start of a remarkable ascension.

Google’s breakout moment came in 2004 when they conducted their Initial Public Offering (IPO). This was the beginning of a significant milestone, enabling them to raise a capital and attract more investors.

With IPO funds, Google continued to expand its services. They introduced products like Google Maps, Gmail, and Google News and these products became crucial parts that determine people’s lives.

There were privacy concerns in Google, legal battles, copyright issues, however the company persevered and lined out strategies to combat these challenges.

Today this same Google has become the world’s technology powerhouse offering products like Google Cloud, YouTube, Google Home and many more.

What do we learn from the very last story in our success story compilation? Perseverance, innovation, and customer-centric approach can propel a business from point-A to point-Success.

At every point in your business journey, stay focused on providing value, embrace new technologies, adapt to change, then you can carve your business path to success.

The past several years have witnessed an unparalleled focus on risk in both the physical and digital worlds. Cybersecurity concerns are getting more severe as data breaches and other problems get more sophisticated.

It's good that methods for avoiding internet scams, spam, and other annoyances are getting increasingly complex. An efficient digital immune system may significantly reduce operational and security concerns through monitoring, automation, and the most recent design innovations.

As the value of these tools becomes more widely recognized in the coming year, anticipate receiving a lot more inquiries regarding the condition of your organization's digital immune system and your efforts to fortify and safeguard it.

Red Hat® Inc. began when a small businessman met a geek at a tech conference. Marc Ewing was the geek—hacking, debugging, and spinning his own distribution of Linux® on CDs from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bob Young was the businessman—running a computer supply catalog business out of his home in Connecticut. He noticed a growing interest in Linux, so he began to buy Ewing’s CDs. Young sold out of them so many times that he and Ewing joined forces, and Red Hat Software was born in 1995, with Young as CEO.Instead of protecting trade secrets and filing patents for expensive proprietary products, Red Hat took a radically different approach to software: a stable, accessible distribution of a constantly evolving, community-developed operating system called Linux.

Red Hat believed that open collaboration was the best way to create software. It saw itself as an upstart charging the gates of a closed, monopolistic technology industry, and this view was represented in the creation of the Shadowman logo.

Part superhero, part rebel, and part private detective, Shadowman captured much of Red Hat’s early market strategy—sneaking past the barriers built by proprietary technology companies and bringing open source into datacenters.For many years, Red Hat Linux was a boxed product sold alongside Microsoft Windows and Lotus Notes in retail stores. Like other software companies, Red Hat released a new version every six months or so—hoping customers would buy it for the new features. While the development model was innovative, the business model wasn’t.

In 2001, Red Hat stopped the distribution of boxed Red Hat Linux, its primary source of revenue. Instead, affirming its trust in open source once again, Red Hat introduced an enterprise edition that would be sold on a subscription basis.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux became the company’s flagship product, an offering to the world’s most demanding datacenters. A freely available, community version of its Linux operating system would continue to be developed and supported under a new name: Fedora.

Matthew Szulik, then CEO and a tireless open source evangelist, believed in Red Hat’s role as a catalyst for change in the technology industry. In 2006, he charted what would become Red Hat’s vision

This trend is the one that actually connects all of the others. The data required to build the metaverse, create digital twins, train intelligent machines, and develop new strategies for enabling digital trust is gathered by the interconnected sensors, devices, and infrastructure network. This is referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), and in 2023, its influence on our lives will remain significant.

More focus will be paid to enabling advanced and more advantageous machine-to-machine interactions. These days, we are used to furnishing both our homes and offices with smart technology. But we commonly encounter problems when gadgets can't interact because of diverse platforms and operating systems. In 2023, research on developing global standards and communication protocols that gadgets can use to connect with one another will continue. As a result, they will operate more effectively and be able to assist us with a larger range of duties.

Another focus will be on IoT security, which will incorporate tools with AI-assisted prediction skills, and companies investing in IoT will prioritize improvements.

Next-generation wireless will improve connectivity while also assisting in process optimization for increased reliability, cheaper costs, lower risks, and more productivity. The shift to digital transformation will be more seamless if several wireless technologies are combined onto a single infrastructure and utilized.

If the technical foundation for future wireless is more accessible, unified, secure, dependable, and scalable, it will require less funding. The new wireless technology will make it easier for the Internet of Things (IoT) trend to collect environmental data. Applications in satellite technology, radar sensing, energy harvesting, location tracking, and other areas are likel

Chisel is the most comprehensive agile product management software on the market perfectly balancing the three dimensions of product management: product roadmapping, team alignment, and customer connection. It empowers product teams to communicate with one another, prioritize what to build next, and engage with their customers. You can use Chisel to track bugs, defects, and feature requests. It provides a forum for collaboration between product managers and engineers. This allows you to keep up-to-date on product development by creating a master task list, managing tasks in scrum teams, and tracking release dates.

It is a stand-alone application that integrates with your existing bug tracking and ticketing system. You can also use it to create product releases, manage tasks, track progress, and set milestones. It has the ability to create visual roadmaps that help Product Managers to communicate their vision with stakeholders, customers, and team members to deliver what the product which everyone wants.

Connecting objects has just got easier. With Nodle, you can now connect anything from home appliances, smartwatches, to air sensors, fitness trackers, etc.

Nodle is providing new opportunities for hardware manufacturers and decreasing barriers to entry for IoT solutions and hardware experts. It provides an alternative source of revenue for device makers, network operators and app developers who want to make a mark in the IoT world.Booking anything is now easier than ever. Whether you want to book an event, a co-working space, a tenant space, or anything else, the tech startup ‘Smarten Spaces’ is the solution for you. The company understands the vital role smart technologies play in our routine activities. Walking to an event space, just to know about its price is a mess. That’s where Smarten Space is changing the landscape. It aims to transform places of work and leisure into state-of-the-art sustainable architectures.

The market for wearables continues to trend upward.

In 2022, it was valued at more than $116 billion and rising demand is expected to drive the market value even higher through 2026, hitting $265 billion that year.

Like we discussed with FemTech, wearables are becoming more sophisticated in the data they collect and in the algorithms that data feeds.

Up until recently, many wearables were focused on sleep tracking and step counting.

In recent years, however, we’ve seen a variety of devices launched with features that go far beyond these basic functions.

A few tech companies offer smart rings with built-in near-field communication technology.

These rings enable wearers to make payments, unlock smart-key doors, and share data with the swipe of their finger.

For instance, McLear’s RingPay acts as a contactless payment device, allowing users to swipe their ring in the same way they swipe a contactless card. There’s no need for any kind of interface or app.

Another example comes from the smart ring brand Cnick. They’ve created the Tesla key ring.

Owners can lock, unlock, and start their vehicle by simply taping their knuckle.

The ring can also be used for contactless payments

Coded Minds is a technology-education startup that aims to revolutionize the paradigm of tech education. Coded Minds focuses on methods. It starts with the problem and inculcates a practical, hands-on project-based curriculum.

The startup aims to focus on real-world issues and fix them using technology and innovation.

It is providing education to students of all ages in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific, South Asia, and the Americas. It believes that education is purpose-driven. That’s why it empowers children and adults to be creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, and disruptive.

While it’s exciting to talk about tech developments like quantum computing and AI, one technology that’s likely to benefit humanity the most is early disease detection.

That’s because the earlier a disease is detected, the more likely the patient is to survive.

For example, if ovarian cancer is caught while it’s still localized, the five-year survival rate is 93%.

A similar increase in life expectancy is seen for patients with melanoma. There’s a 99% five-year survival rate for localized cancer, but only a 32% survival rate after the cancer has spread.Unfortunately, certain types of cancer, like those that affect the pancreas, lungs, and ovaries, are notoriously difficult to catch early.

In an effort to increase survival rates, researchers and tech industry startups are dedicating an increasing amount of resources to cutting-edge technologies designed to detect cancer cells earlier in development.

Take pancreatic cancer, for example.

A company called Biological Dynamics has developed a lab-on-a-chip test that looks for bio-markers specific to pancreatic cancer. The test is entering human trials now.

So far, the company has raised $125 million in funding and hopes to build on the success of the pancreatic cancer test in order to launch tests for lung cancer and ovarian cancer.

Using AI for early diagnosis is another trend in the health tech space.

Researchers at MIT are using AI models to assess lung cancer risk in patients.The tool was trained on six years worth of lung scans from patients in the United States and Taiwan. From these scans, the tool learned to identify and categorize patterns.

It’s best at predicting lung cancer that will occur within one year, but is also capable of predicting the disease up to six years in advance.

And it’s not just cancer that tech tools can detect early.

Scientists are leveraging nanotechnology that fits inside a smartphone camera in order to diagnose a wide variety of diseases.

The idea is that this nanotechnology makes phase imaging, an advanced way of viewing cells, available to patients at home.

If this technology makes it through trials, patients will be able to take an image of their saliva or a pinprick of blood at home using phase imaging on their camera and send it directly to their medical provider for analysis.

One at-home medical test that uses smartphone technology that’s already cleared for use is the Minuteful Kidney test from Healthy.io.

Accenture PLC provides consulting, media, and financial services for companies that aim to use technology and outsourcing to optimize their business outcomes. Accenture has about 738,000 employees worldwide and ranked 35th on Forbes' World's Most Valuable Brands list in 2020.

The company is divided into five segments to serve a diverse array of organizations:

Communications
Media
Products
Resources
Public service segments
Accenture helps clients adopt data-driven and platform-based business models, streamline consumers' digital experiences, and integrate digital marketing strategies.

Established in Taiwan in 1974, Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) (TWSE: 2317) is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer. Foxconn is also the leading technological solution provider, and it continuously leverages its expertise in software and hardware to integrate its unique manufacturing systems with emerging technologies. The Group has expanded not only its capabilities into the development of electric vehicles, digital health and robotics, but also three key technologies –AI, semiconductors and new-generation communications technology – which are key to driving its long-term growth strategy and the four core product pillars: Smart Consumer Electronics, Cloud and Networking, Computing Products and Components and Others. In 2021, Hon Hai‘s annual revenue reached USD 206 billionThe company has established R&D and manufacturing centers in other markets around the world including China, India, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Czech Republic, U.S. and more. With a focus on research and development, the company owns more than 54,253 patents. In addition to maximizing value-creation for customers who include many of the world’s leading technology companies, Foxconn is also dedicated to championing environmental sustainability in the manufacturing process and serving as a best-practices model for global enterprises.

The company has received widespread international accolades and recognition since its establishment. The company ranked 22nd on the Fortune Global 500 rankings in 2021 and 25th in the Top 100 Digital Companies in the Forbes ranking of the World’s Best Employers in 2019. Moreover, on Forbes’ World’s Best Employers 2021 rankings, the company ranked 1st in Taiwan. Foxconn is also the only Taiwanese private company awarded for 5 consecutive years of Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators (2018 ~ 2022).

It was in 1994 when Jeff Bezos started a very small bookstore in his garage, which he named Amazon. Hardly did he know that this tiny venture was on a course to becoming an e-commerce store that will redefine shopping in this century.

In the early years of Amazon, the company faced a number of challenges. Initially, Amazon operated at a loss because its focus was on expansion and building a solid customer base. That notwithstanding, Bezos was focused on creating an online market where customers could find whatsoever be their need from the comfort of their 84 by 40 inches couch.

In 1977, Amazon made a strategic decision which was a game changer to the company’s trajectory. They decided to go public, raising a capital to fuel its growth. Despite the innumerable skepticism from investors and competitors alike, Bezos remained steadfast in his belief that Amazon would one day become an online retail powerhouse.

Jeff Bozos breakthrough moment was in the year 1990 when he launched Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is a subscription service that offered free two-day shipping on eligible items.

This altruistic service did not only exponentially increase customer’s loyalty, but also set the stage for Amazon’s expansion into other product categories and services.

As years turned into many years, Amazon introduced Kindle e-reader in 2007 which revolutionized digital reading.

However, as usual it wasn’t a smooth ride along for Amazon, in the year 2000, the dot-com bubble burst that affected many internet based companies also delved a blow on Amazon. The company experienced its lowest stock price during this period, and this situation raised concerns about their long-term viability.

Jeff Bezos was never backing down, instead of throwing in the towel he expanded his catalog, improved customer experiences and integrated technological advancements. They made acquisitions like Zappos and Whole Foods Market, hence diversifying their offerings and market reach.

Today Amazon has become the go-to place when you think of online shopping, not only that, the company’s influence extends beyond retail with ventures such as Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Echo and Alexia.

One out of the many moral lessons to draw from Bezos’ story is that customer focus, adaptability and willingness to take risks can propel a business from zero to hero. Oh! Less I forget, embracing technological innovation can tip the market dynamics n your favor.

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Yeah, software companies are worth the whole world, and hardware companies can be worth a lot too. But companies who provide both? They’re totally different gems 💎

Broadcom has a diverse product portfolio, including both semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions.

With their innovative vision and collaboration, they achieved excellence more than once.

Introduced the first commercially available LED dot matrix display.
Produced the first cable modem that enabled cable TV providers to offer Internet connectivity.
Delivered the first high-speed digital optocouplers for use in hybrid and electric vehicles.
Introduced embedded fiber-optic solutions for IBM.
Introduced the first 5G radio switch.

SAP is a leading software company that focuses on business management solutions such as data processing and information flow.

It was founded in 1972 in Weinheim, Germany.

When they released SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 software, they set a global standard in terms of enterprise resource planning (ERP). Now they have SAP S/4HANA, the latest version of ERP software. It makes use of in-memory computing; therefore, it enables tremendous amounts of data to be processed fast and smoothly.

SAP software gathers and centralizes data, normally which would be collected and analyzed separately by each department/team. It helps to have a better view and interpretation of collected data while increasing productivity -and ultimately, profits.

ERP software includes tools and programs suitable for all teams: HR, sales, marketing, product…

And SAP has different solutions for companies of different sizes. A big corporate or a small company, doesn’t matter, you can get help from them!

GAFAM was the first acronym used to designate digital companies.

This group includes a search engine, a social network, a digital marketplace, and two operating systems and electronic device manufacturers.

The acronym GAFAM is used because it is easy to pronounce, but mostly to highlight that it is the products that have an impact on society and not the parent companies. Otherwise, Google would be Alphabet and Facebook would be Meta, so AAMAM would be the updated acronym.Google
Google revolutionized web browsing and made it popular with the general public. Even if Chrome has also become an important part of Internet users’ lives, it is the search engine that has impacted access to knowledge.
Apple
Apple is a historical manufacturer that offers an ecosystem of interconnected products. Although Apple has been around for a long time, it was the introduction of the iPhone that established its position as a digital giant.
The iPhone revolutionized mobile telephony, phone design, but also unlimited access to the Internet and the creation of applications.
Facebook
Facebook was the first large-scale social network.
If today Facebook is criticized for various reasons, it has allowed connecting people on a central place on the Internet.
The creation of social networks has revolutionized the use of the internet which was then only utilitarian. Now we had a permanent reason to connect to the internet.
Amazon
Amazon popularized online sales and above all revolutionized the delivery logistics chain. Even if the working conditions at Amazon are still criticized, the online sales platform has changed forever the way we used to consume on the Internet.
Microsoft
Microsoft dates back to the same time as Apple but popularized the purchase of personal computers, which allowed computers to enter the home, whereas they were perceived as professional tools until then.
The Windows operating system was also the first step towards the popularization of computing by offering a system that was less reliable than Apple, but more flexible.
When we look at the list, we can realize one thing: these companies are old. The youngest is Facebook which was born in 2007, but all the others were already active in the 90s, it took them at least 20 years to reach their current status.

Their funds allow these companies to invest in research. All of them are afraid of being forgotten at the dawn of a new era and new emerging technologies.

That’s why we have so much excitement today about new realities, VR headsets developed by Microsoft and Facebook, AR glasses developed by Google and Apple. The technologies are presented early even if they fail because the GAFAMs want to keep their dominant position on grounds that are still to be conquered.

Sometimes new future technologies can offer amazing development, with the possibility of changing the future... while also being incredibly creepy.

This is one way to describe the idea of necrobotics which, as the name suggests, involves turning dead things into robots. While this sounds like a plot to a creepy horror film, this is a technology being explored at Rice University.

A team of researchers turned a dead spider into a robot-like gripper, given the ability to pick up other objects. To achieve this, they take a spider and inject it with air. This works because spiders use hydraulics to force their version of blood (haemolymph) into their limbs, making them extend.

Right now this concept is in its infant stages, but it could mean a future where dead animals are used to further science... it all feels very Frankeinstein-like!

The video-on-demand platform has been around for a long time, but it’s its transition to a digital offering that has changed the world.
Netflix has enabled several revolutions. The piracy of movies and series has dropped as a result of the popularization of Netflix. Offering a quality service was enough to put an end to a practice that governments had been trying to curb for years in vain.
The way of consuming series has been changed. Before, it was rare to watch a series in one go. Episodes were broadcast punctually and over several years. Watching six seasons of a series you just discovered is no longer a problem today. This way of consuming has even impacted the world of cinema which had to rethink its way of conceiving series taking into account that they would probably be watched in a reduced time. We even come to make remote controls with an integrated Netflix button.
The company has been imitated by other entertainment giants but seems to keep its lead

Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb are all household-name examples of digital platforms networks that facilitate connections and exchanges between people. This trend is turning established business models on their head, leading many traditional businesses to transition to or incorporate a platform-based model.

The fifth generation of cellular network technology will give us faster, smarter, more stable wireless networking, thereby driving advances in many other trends (e.g., more connected devices and richer streams of data).

With the explosion of smart speakers and voice search in recent years, you’d be forgiven for thinking that “readable” content is more important than visuals and design these days.

In fact, this couldn’t be further from the truth. While advancements in voice search are certainly influencing the way that we’ll create content now and in the future, you shouldn’t neglect visual content and the basic elements of brand storytelling.

Research has shown that people prefer visual content to plain text. You just have to look at the growth of image-focused platforms Pinterest and Instagram to see the proof of this.Google, Pinterest, and several other companies are also investing in visual search technology. Images are already returned for 19% of searches on Google, and 62% of millennials say they are more interest in visual search than any other new technology.

Visuals are also easier to remember than written content. Adding data visualizations, infographics, images, and videos to your text not only makes it more interesting and attractive, but it can help your message to be absorbed better too.

Social media and mobile marketing have certainly changed the game as far as how modern-day marketing works.

But while many small businesses focus their efforts on the free and low-cost marketing opportunities that social media platforms offer, ads have also proven effective in driving ROI.

Unsurprisingly, Facebook dominates the world of social media advertising, as over 93% of marketers use some form of Facebook ads in their social media marketing strategy.To get the most out of your Facebook ad campaign, there are a few things you’ll want to focus on:

Ensure that you’re creating an attractive offer
Track the right KPIs
Utilize attractive images and/or videos
Set clear, measurable goals

UI/UX is one of the most in demand technologies in the 21st century. Ui stands for user interface & UX stands for user experience. These days industries are focusing on designs that are more user-centered and have an easy navigation interface.

UI/UX designers are primarily concerned with the customers’ interaction with products. UI designers focus on making that interaction possible, and UX designers focus on making that interaction pleasant for the customers. UI and UX designers usually work in close collaboration with product designers and even clients during the initial stage of the design process.

The average salary of UI/UX designers is around 5.5 LPA and 15 LPA. so this can be one of the top 10 technologies to learn in the 21st century.

Emerging technologies are flourishing within the field of software development. Technology like DevOps is consistently demonstrating its importance among a wide range of technologies. Everyone has understood since DevOps’ built conception that it conquers a special potential and will alter business development. DevOps has become recognised as a crucial development methodology during the epidemic.

In fact, the survey predicted that the DevOps market would expand at a CAGR of 24.7% from 2019 to 2026 and reach a size of $20.01 billion. It is so abundantly obvious that the contribution of DevOps to digital transformation will result in radical transformations across numerous industries.

The average income for a DevOps Engineer ranges from 4.2 to 9 lakhs, with an average base pay of 7 lakhs, according to Glassdoor and Ambitionbox. The average salary of a software architect in India and the US is Rs 6.1 lacs and $135000 per annum respectively.