Enterprise software giant SAP SE posted its third-quarter results 12 hours earlier than usual today and admitted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to drag on for much longer than it first expected. Because of that, the company has revised downward its full-year 2020 business outlook to reflect the reduced customer spending it …
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The role of different governments of the world in the field of AI
Government enthusiasm for AI has picked up recently, and numerous government authorities are beginning to pose similar inquiries business chiefs were asking a few years back. Governments and huge NGOs are beginning to put resources into AI, spending budget and time on pilot programs for different AI applications and conversations with individuals in the field on the future implications of the innovation.
As machine learning capacities improve, world governments will probably put significantly more in AI research. IDC assessed the US government’s investment in cognitive
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Recent advances in AI and ML, while not actually close to real AGI, have made a feeling that AGI is close, as surprisingly fast for many years.
Artificial Intelligence is something that’s been around quite a while. Since its development into the public consciousness through sci-fi, many have expected that one day machines will have “general intelligence”, and considered diverse practical, ethical and philosophical implications.
In all actuality, AI has been the discussion of standard pop-culture and sci-fi since the first Terminator film turned out in 1984. These motion pictures present an example of something many refer to
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WiFi has been the de facto standard for wireless communications for decades, but over the past couple of years, it has come under fire from the 5G community, which has been predicting that the next evolutionary step in cellular wireless is a threat to WiFi. In fact, this thesis recently got a shot in the …
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Intelligent visual assistance and remote augmented reality platform startup TechSee today announced it has secured $30 million in a Series C round. Based in New York and Tel Aviv, TechSee bridges the visual gap between technicians in the field or customers at home with experts at guests by allowing people to broadcast what they can see …
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To be successful in a rapidly changing world, we need to invest in developing new leadership skills. According to TrainingIndustry.com, an estimated $166 billion was spent in 2019 on leadership development in the United States. The more a leader learns and effectively applies, the better they perform, and consequently, our organizations achieve better results. This statement is the tenet of leadership development training. While there is some logic in that statement, it overestimates the leader’s impact on the company results. The statement also underestimates the effects of company culture, the leader-follower relationship, and leader and follower traits on organizational
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way healthcare industry functions. It is helping doctors diagnose patients more accurately. AI makes predictions about patients’ future health and recommends better treatment. Henceforth, healthcare organizations of all sizes, types, and specialties are becoming increasingly interested in employing AI for better patient care and improved efficiency.
Medicine is one of the fastest-growing and important application areas with unique challenges. Over a relatively short period of time, the availability of AI has exploded, leaving providers, payers and stakeholders with a variety of tools, technologies and strategies from where they can choose. Understanding how data is ingested, analyzed and
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Cloudify Ltd. today upgraded its infrastructure orchestration platform with features designed to make it easier to manage the large number of different components that make up an enterprise’s technology environment. Cloudify Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based startup that spun out of in-memory computing company GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. in 2017. Since then, it has raised at least $7 …
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Widex is the first hearing aid company to use AI to optimize hearing aid performance in real time.
HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK, October 27, 2020 — Having transformed the performance of a broad spectrum of consumer and industrial products, artificial intelligence (AI) is now set to revolutionize the quality of a product that the U.S. National Institutes of Health says half of consumers aged 75 and over desperately need: hearing aids.
Bringing opportunity to fruition, Widex is the first hearing aid manufacturer to utilize real-time AI to create a better, more natural and personalized sound experience for hearing
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Microsoft Corp. today released a free desktop application called Lobe that lets Windows and Mac users create customized artificial intelligence models without writing any code. The app is already being used by several customers for tasks such as tracking tourist activity around coral reefs, the company said. Lobe is based on technology that Microsoft obtained in 2018 …
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Cloud communications service leader Twilio Inc. delivered solid third-quarter results today, beating expectations thanks to what it said was strong customer momentum. But the company’s earnings forecast for the next quarter came in light, sending its stock down slightly after hours. Twilio reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 4 cents per …
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Australian document productivity company Nitro Software Inc. has suffered a data breach with customer data being offered for sale on the dark web. The company, which provides services to much of the Fortune 500, was hacked sometime earlier this month. In a statement last week to the Australia Stock Exchange, Nitro advised that they had been impacted …
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Twitter Inc. announced today that users in the U.S. will start seeing messages on their timeline that “preemptively debunk” misinformation relating to the election. The messages will appear in the form of banners when people search for election information, such as claims about mail-in voting or premature claims about victory. The company seems to have …
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When the global pandemic began to sweep across the U.S., many financial institutions closed physical offices. Yet, the banking industry needed to keep functioning, especially at a time when many small businesses desperately need loans to stay open. One of the more remarkable stories described during the recent Citrix Workspace Summit involved City National Bank of …
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Heavily funded data center startup Fungible Inc. today launched a new storage platform powered by its F1 data processing unit, or DPU, chip that it says can provide five times the performance of competing hardware. Established five years ago by former Juniper Networks Inc. and Apple Inc. executives, Fungible is backed by more than $300 million in …
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Google LLC today updated its Firebase application development platform with various new features that it says will help to accelerate development cycles, run applications more efficiently and customize the platform to better suit individual developer’s needs. Firebase is Google’s primary application development platform, enabling developers to develop iOS, Android and web apps. As well as …
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Why HPC needs Big data analytics and cloud platform to expand its potential?
Researchers have been using high-performance computing (HPC) for highly computationally intensive tasks like drug discovery research, quantum mechanics, weather forecasting and more. Basically, it has been accelerating breakthroughs in autonomous driving, seismic engineering, oil and gas production, precision medicine, and financial risk assessment. While HPC can perform better when multiple HPC nodes are connected to form a cluster to offer exascale capabilities, some key hurdles may hinder from utilizing its maximum potential. These are processing vast datasets and storing these data and processed insights,
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Research shows that 73% of consumers expect brands to personalize and tailor online experiences to meet their needs. It feels weird when websites don’t give people what they want and expect. Personalization matters for your business, even in difficult times. Today’s guest is Amey Shivapurkar, an experienced optimization SME at Avionos. Amey helps clients create data-driven experiences that deliver business outcomes. He talks about how personalization isn’t always easy, but worth considering for marketers to maximize CRO, create meaningful results, and drive user experiences. [podcast_motor_player] Some of the highlights of the show include: Personalization: Relevant products, services, content …
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today confirmed recent acquisition reports by announcing that it has inked a $35 billion deal to buy Xilinx Inc., a maker of programmable chips used in systems ranging from data center servers to satellites. The $35 billion price tag represents a roughly 25% premium to Xilinx’s closing price. AMD will finance the transaction …
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Replicated Inc., a startup whose technology is used by major software makers such as UiPath Inc. to power their on-premises products, has picked up $25 million in fresh funding. Two Sigma Ventures led the round with participation from existing backers. The investment was announced today. Enterprise software is increasingly delivered via the cloud rather than as a …
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