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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

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from customer relationship management systems and jobs boards). ” Zartico launched in March 2020 — one week prior to most of the world shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . ” Zartico launched in March 2020 — one week prior to most of the world shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app

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Through Gawq’s newly launched mobile news app, it aims to present news from a range of sources, while allowing users to filter between news, opinion, paid content, and more, as well as compare sources, check facts, and even review the publication’s content for accuracy. The publishers cover topics like U.S. Image Credits: Gawq.

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Daily Crunch: Beating ‘other takeover bidders,’ Bosch acquires autonomous driving startup Five.ai

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Pylon charging up Egypt’s utilities : This story about a small round for an Egyptian startup caught our eye due to the sheer size of the market potential. Some super fun hardware stories today – Brian explored how PitchCom is changing the fabric of baseball , a sport that’s been stuck in the time before technology in many ways.

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Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

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We report that this has been in the works for at least three years and also includes a payment service for loans and insurance. Call me to my app : Office phone systems are a mess, and OpenPhone raised $40 million to replace the thing on your desk – and the infrastructure that goes with it – with an app.

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What is Wearable Technology?

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From the basic fitness trackers and highly-advanced sports and smartwatches, to virtual and augmented reality headsets, wearables are everywhere. By using wearable tech to encourage more exercise and better sleep patterns, this will help patients become healthier and reduce strain on the healthcare system. Reduced Insurance Premiums.

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Document Classification With Machine Learning: Computer Vision, OCR, NLP, and Other Techniques

Altexsoft

Namely, we’ll look at how rule-based systems and machine learning models work in this context. And one of the most effective ways is to apply sentiment analysis to classify commentaries and reviews on social media by their emotional nature. An NLP-based system can be implemented for a ticket routing task in this case.

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Lessons learned turning machine learning models into real products and services

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In other words, “The gap between ambition and execution is large at most companies,” as put by the authors of an MIT Sloan Management Review article. A model that recommends what sports programs to watch, for example, would need to consider that the Super Bowl is huge in the U.S., Sometimes, the need to localize models is obvious.