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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

Altexsoft

It means that people want to travel responsibly, so hotels, airlines, and tour companies have to keep up and satisfy their customers (and attract new ones). Multiple airlines give their passengers an opportunity to know the carbon footprint of their flight, choose a greener option, and participate in offsetting programs.

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Radar trends to watch: November 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Facebook AI Research has created a set of first-person (head-mounted camera) videos called Ego4D for training AI. Programming. WebAssembly was designed as a programming-language-neutral virtual machine for browsers, but it increasingly looks like it will also find a home on the server side. This is a new front in deep fakery.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Last year, TechCrunch published an op-ed from Nigel Morris around mental health stigma in the tech community when the initial program was announced. Wiseasy is a brand you might not have heard of, but it’s a popular Android-based payment terminal maker used in restaurants, hotels, retail outlets and schools across the Asia-Pacific region.

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OTA Rates and Building ?ommission Engine: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt

Altexsoft

They help hotels, airlines, car rental services, and other suppliers sell inventory to end customers — and charge fees for this mediation. Some OTAs invest up to 50 percent of their revenue in online marketing to increase visibility on the Internet — you can learn more about it from our video. Understanding marketing in travel.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

TechCrunch

GPARENCY is looking to hire for sales, including entry-level roles, and says it is open to no experience — they’ll train new hires in the skills they need, and in company culture. Among the positions it’s hiring for are Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Enterprise Account Executive. For example, it’s looking for a Sales Executive.

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Natural Language Processing: A Guide to NLP Use Cases, Approaches, and Tools

Altexsoft

Internet search engines are wonderfully helpful when auto-filling our queries, language translation has never been more seamless and correct, and advanced grammar checks save our reputation when we’re sending emails. Not all language models are as impressive as this one, since it’s been trained on hundreds of billions of samples.

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