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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. It may not be obvious that cameras won’t get better, since we’ve seen such advances in recent generations of phones.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

Netflix Tech

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

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How to Choose a Data Science and AI Consulting Company

Altexsoft

Data science and artificial intelligence are hot media topics. Our clients considered working with large datasets a big data problem. While the dataset is indeed large, the problem that the OTA was solving didn’t require data analysis, only data retrieval. For instance, we had such a case in our work.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

Altexsoft

Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 percent of global GDP.

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Wonder Dynamics raises $2.5M seed to equip indie filmmakers with AI-powered VFX

TechCrunch

Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. The company has its origins in 2017, after Sheridan and Todorovic met on the set of Rodrigo Garcia’s film Last Days in the Desert.

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