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6 most underhyped technologies in IT — plus one that’s not dead yet

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But with all due respect, AI is hardly the only critical tech in town. Isn’t it time some of those overlooked and underappreciated technologies get their due? Some clues are found in the 2023 Cloud Business Survey from professional services firm PwC. with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.” We think so.

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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

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“We also connect to several social media platforms and for specific event types we use external data sources as for example USGS (United States Geological Survey) for earthquake data or GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System) for weather information.

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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

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Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. A robust market. A robust market.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

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In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. The average salary for data and AI professionals who responded to the survey was $146,000. To nobody’s surprise, our survey showed that data science and AI professionals are mostly male. Executive Summary.

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Soci raises $120M in debt and equity to grow its marketing management platform

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Soci provides customers marketing-focused workflows, a permissioning system, approval processes and analytics and management tools that integrate with popular ad networks. Beyond this, it delivers a database for consolidating marketing info including data from search, social media, reviews, surveys and chatbots.

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Netflix crackdown, monetizing ChatGPT and bypassing FB’s 2FA

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Happy weekend, folks, and welcome back to the TechCrunch Week in Review. Bypassing FB 2FA: Meta created a new centralized system so users could manage their logins for Facebook and Instagram, but a bug could have allowed malicious hackers to switch off 2FA just by knowing a user’s phone number. If you’re not, consider signing up.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

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Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc. Structured data lacks the richness and depth that unstructured data (such as text, images, audio, and video) provides to enable more nuanced insights.