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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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2018: A Year in Review for Storage Systems.

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

2018 was a very busy year for Hitachi Vantara. This new company will unify the operations of these three companies into a single integrated business as Hitachi Vantara to capitalize on Hitachi’s social innovation capability in both operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT).

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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. In addition, with Vyrill’s system, L’Oréal can dig down and identify user-generated content specific to a particular product. million pre-seed round in 2018. million pre-seed round in 2018. million already raised.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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Zocdoc founder returns with Shadow, an app that finds lost dogs

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and millions of those end up in shelters where they aren’t always reunited with their owners, due to their lack of identification or a microchip. to pull in photos of the dogs they’re currently housing, then supplements this with photos pulled from social media platforms, like Twitter and Facebook. It then uses A.I.

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems. Tacora has signed some term sheets already, but is going through the regulatory due diligence process, Findley said.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

Resilience is part of the policy of the Dutch National Bank for the Dutch financial market [ dnb01 , dnb02 , dnb03 ] and part of the Risk Management standard ISO 31.000 [ Hutchens-2018 ]. An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. These systems are to be called fragile.