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D&I lessons to learn from top global organizations

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Research shows that most facial recognition software can identify white faces quickly, but can’t consistently identify people with other skin tones. Lesson 1: Build products with everyone and for everyone. Additionally, Google spent $400 million on businesses owned by people from underrepresented groups in 2018.

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The Importance of Accessibility Testing for Websites

Exadel

One billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability that can impact that interaction. Some applications are made to simplify everyday life, but issues with accessibility can mean that those very applications aren’t usable by the very people they could help the most.

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Cybersecurity in Schools: 5 Tips for COVID-19 and Beyond

PowerSchool

A resource for K-12 tech directors to heighten cybersecurity due to increased online learning. The fallout from COVID-19 has pushed everyone even further online. And while the pandemic has changed nearly everything about how schools operate, one thing remains constant—the need to focus on cybersecurity in schools.

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The Evolution of Conversational AI: From Simple Chat-bots to Sophisticated Virtual Assistants

Sunflower Lab

In the preliminary phases, AI chat online was primarily used for customer service, basically a platform which needed minimal maintenance and quick output for the customer queries. Meeting and understanding the virtual hello! Most of these are well capable of retorting audio instructions with ease.

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

Altexsoft

COVID-19 changed the behavior, demands, and expectations of people planning their next journey. Post-Covid travel trends: how people go on a trip after the pandemic. Tourists then and now express a need for a high level of personalization , they want to easily book trips and make transactions online.

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Understanding Electronic Visit Verification: How to Comply and Implement an EVV Solution

Altexsoft

Back in 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act required that by January 1, 2020 all states implement an Electronic Visit Verification solution for personal care services. So, as long as your personal care or home health services are reimbursed by Medicaid or Medicare, your agency is subject to EVV requirements. What is EVV?

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Since Musk bought Twitter and took the company private, the news around the microblogging platform has been a whirlwind, rife with verification chaos, API access shakeups, ban reversals, staggering layoffs, and most notably, rebranding to X. I don’t care about the economics at all.” By October, the platform was his.