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The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here AiFi, a Santa Clara-based cashierless retail startup that emerged from stealth in February 2019, today secured an investment from Qualcomm and existing backers. A company spokesperson didn’t disclose the exact amount, but she said it doubles

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here (Reuters) – Japan will join forces with the United States and Europe to take on any market abuses by the four Big Tech companies, the new head of its antitrust watchdog said on Monday, a sign

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. It’s easy to take for granted that our cell phones are always looking for nearby towers to keep calls and streaming

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here Prezi is doubling down on efforts to make online presentations more engaging for teachers and students by introducing hand gesture controls for digital video content. The announcement comes after the pandemic forced thousands of schools and

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here Planning for a post-COVID-19 future and creating a robust enterprise strategy require both strategic scenario planning and the ability to recognize what scenario planners call “news from the future” — data points that tell you whether

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now More than a decade into the cloud computing era, the most pressing demand for migrating data and applications has largely been met. To convince companies to put even more core functions and sensitive data in the cloud, a wide range of companies are pushing for

The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here This week, thousands of Amazon employees petitioned for paid time off to vote. The petition asked Amazon “to provide the entire U.S. employee workforce with a paid day/shift off that can be used anytime between now

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now UC Berkeley AI researchers say they’ve created AI for autonomous vehicles driving in unseen, real-world landscapes that outperforms leading methods for delivery robots driving on sidewalks. Called LaND, for Learning to Navigate from Disengagements, the navigation system studies disengagement events, then predicts when disengagements will

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now During a livestreamed event this afternoon, Google detailed the ways it’s applying AI and machine learning to improve the Google Search experience. Soon, Google says users will be able to see how busy places are in Google Maps without having to search for specific beaches,

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now International digital and human rights organization Access Now has resigned in protest from its role as a member of the Partnership on AI (PAI) due to a lack of change among businesses associated with the group or incorporation of opinions posed by civil society organizations.

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Zoom has confirmed that it will begin rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) next week, starting with a 30-day technical preview to glean feedback from users, which will be followed by an additional three phases ahead of its full launch. This has been a long time

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Accurics, a company providing what it describes as “self-healing” infrastructure for cloud environments, has raised $20 million. A spokesperson says the funding will be used to bolster Accurics’ 35-person workforce as it pursues customer acquisition opportunities. Cloud datacenters will process 94% of workloads in 2021,

Since its inception in 2013, DroneDeploy has served to help companies access commercial drone operators and create professional-grade imagery of the built environment from the skies above. But at its annual DroneDeploy Conference today, the San Francisco-based company announced that it’s coming back down to Earth with a new service that captures visuals at ground level. Thus

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Companies use around 88 applications on average in 2020, according to recent data from Okta, representing a 6% year-on-year (YoY) increase. This figure jumps to more than 200 apps for some of the bigger enterprises out there, which can lead to a lot of “chaos,

Question: How can a company like Caterpillar try to counter a slump in sales of bulldozers and trucks during a pandemic that has made every human a potential disease vector? Answer: Cut out human operators, perhaps? Caterpillar’s autonomous driving technology, which can be bolted on to existing machines, is helping the U.S. heavy equipment maker

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Cashierless tech startup Standard (formerly Standard Cognition) today announced the opening of a retail store retrofitted for a checkout-free experience. The University of Houston’s dining services partner, Chartwells Higher Education, collaborated with Standard to launch Market Next at Technology Bridge, a 24-hour location selling an