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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. Fraud data, mobile money data, government data queried against national ID systems, AML, PEP screening checks, sanction screening, both global and local KYB business verification data.

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Book Review: “InSecurity”

Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: “InSecurity: Why a Failure to Attract and Retain Women in Cybersecurity is Making Us All Less Safe,” by Jane Frankland (Published October 20, 2017). Book Reviewed by: Greg Day, CSO EMEA. Are you missing out on hiring top talent due to unconscious biases?

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO

Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system. When you click on a search result, the system interprets it as confirmation that the results it has found are correct and uses this information to improve search results in the future. Chatbots work the same way. Amazon Comprehend.

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BrainQ raises $40M to transform stroke patient rehabilitation with its home therapy device

TechCrunch

And in fact when I spoke with BrainQ’s founder Yotam Drechsler, he reminded me of the last time we’d talked — back in 2017, at which time I “expressed strong skepticism.” The resulting system could be the biggest improvement to stroke therapy in decades or more.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

TensorFlow Developed by Google as an open-source machine learning framework, TensorFlow is most used to build and train machine learning models and neural networks. PyTorch is known in the deep learning and AI community as being a flexible, fast, and easy-to-use framework for building deep neural networks.

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NSTAC’s Cyber Report — Leveraging AI to Measurably Reduce Risk

Palo Alto Networks

In 2017, the NSTAC’s Report to the President on Emerging Technologies Strategic Vision (2017) warned that organizational reliance on a patchwork of point products would: “.create page 29) Early Threat Detection and Improved Monitoring and Alerting: “AI/ML systems can quickly examine very large data sets such as log files.

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO

When Grayling joined the company in 2017, he focused on business process transformation, which went well as long as the processes concerned didn’t cross the boundary between SAP instances — a challenge he encountered while transforming source-to-pay processes across the two systems by implementing SAP Ariba.