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Groundbreaking AI Renovations to look forward to

Ever since this year began, we have been experiencing several catastrophic incidents one after the other which also has led us to take precautionary measures for any such events that might happen in the future. The world is so busy talking about COVID-19, its spread, and contraction that other critical scenarios didn’t even receive enough recognition in the 2020 disasters. Did you know in the last 6 months the world has witnessed 41 tropical cyclones in different regions and nations including West Australia, Costa Rica, Brazil, India, Fiji, Yemen, Oman, El Salvador, Mexico, and Florida among many others? Upon deeper dive into these weather conditions, you will find that weather forecasts were able to mitigate some of the threats by moving people from the cyclone-prone areas. Till now weather forecasts have been utilizing satellites, sensors, radar systems, etc., but now it has come to light that meteorologists will be able to make use of AI and ML algorithms for better accuracy in predictions. These predictions based on AI will be used for saving lives as they will be seen delivering processed results of complex data in a lesser amount of time. AI is now being leveraged in many different sectors because of its ability to understand certain behaviors and conduct predictive analysis by recognizing patterns. Artificial Intelligence technology has seen a greater breakthrough in the tech space in recent times. Read the full article

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Health Systems Focus 2021 HIM Budgets on AI-Powered Enterprise Solutions, Reports 2020 Black Book Coding Survey

Growth in clinical documentation market is expected to reach US$5.3B by 2022 from $3.2B 2018 with a 10.3% CAGR driven by mid-RCM artificial intelligence supported solutions to reduce costs, manage unstructured data and check for billing and coding losses. Black Book Research surveyed 540 health information management executives and revealed that 47% of healthcare organizations are using AI in one form or another, and 90% of them expect widespread implementation in the next five years, despite the operational constraints and financial priorities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Black Book Research In a 2020 survey conducted through Q4 by Black Book, 95% of hospital respondents are optimistic that AI technology can streamline document creation and enable clinicians to capture a holistic patient history to boost outcomes but also improve revenue integrity. An additional 391 provider respondents that have not yet fully implemented or optimally using AI-enhanced coding, CDI, speech recognition or transcription technology provided insight on budgeting, adoption plans, factors driving coding and transcription decisions and vendor awareness. The collective results were culled from the current healthcare industry users of artificial intelligence tools and future AI users that participated in Black Book coding and HIM surveys in the current year:  Both commercial and public payers are now denying about one in every 12 (8%) of submitted claims, costing health systems nearly 2. Read the full article

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Travel booking startup Tripbnb.com uses AI to link travelers and accommodation quickly

COVID-19 has caused threats to the global economy, particularly the travel industry, resulting in the massive revenue loss of many travel agents, hotels, restaurants and airlines. Some businesses had to shut down, while some had to undertake in massive employee layoffs to minimize expenses to overcome the crisis. In the USA, the travel industry accounted for 3% of her GDP and 30% of her service exports, the highest among all service exports.Many travel booking startups, such as Tripbnb.com, are helping domestic accommodation providers draw up new business strategies and the country's travel industry had to enhance their technical standards with AI-based systems.Travel booking startup Tripbnb.com also helped travelers to quickly select the most suitable accommodation from tons of choices with AI for travelers to save time from data search and leave more time for their family trips. TRIPBNB listed in 2020 addresses the traveler's comments and feelings about accommodation with AI. Through massive data analysis and computation, it implements effective and massive analysis of various accommodation information from travelers and provides hotels with a report on feasible business strategies based on the analysis results. With this report, hotels can adjust their procedures from the viewpoints and feelings of customers. The report contents may include pricing strategies, room type strategies, customer service improvement or adjustments in food and beverage menus. Read the full article

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Splice Machine Announces Livewire, the Operational AI Platform Designed for Industrial Use Cases

Livewire brings Machine Learning out of the lab and into the plant  Splice Machine, the only scale-out SQL database with built-in machine learning, today announced Livewire, its new open source Operational AI platform for industrial IoT use cases. Livewire is the first combined data and AI platform designed to alert plant operators of likely outages or performance degradation soon enough for them to take remedial action to avoid outages and improve performance. The new product was developed with industrial partners and customers in mind – many of whom provided input on what was missing in their existing stack. The Splice Machine Livewire platform enables teams of data engineers, operators, and data scientists to work together with unprecedented speed and agility. By using an integrated platform these teams can deploy machine learning models 100x faster with half the staff. The platform brings together the three critical components needed in a comprehensive AI solution for industrial IoT in a single, open source offering: Connectivity and Ingestion - Tools and APIs to integrate and ingest data from DCSs, SCADAs, historians, ERP systems, MES systems and other data sources.Observability Platform - Visualization and alerting tools to surface temporal data, static data and predictions.Prediction Platform - An end-to-end Machine Learning platform for developing, experimenting, and deploying machine learning models. Read the full article

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Infoblox's BloxOne Threat Defense Catches Security Blindspots Missed by the Competition

BloxOne Threat Defense tops Tolly DNS security test  Infoblox Inc., the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, today announced the results of a Tolly Group test that found the BloxOne Threat Defense secure DNS solution is more secure and effective than the competition. BloxOne Threat Defense also provides more threat intelligence integrations, leading to easier threat hunting than the competing solution. Tolly tested BloxOne Threat Defense and a competitor across real-world scenarios and recorded the results for each. The results showed that BloxOne Threat Defense: Blocked DNS-based data exfiltration attacks better, as well as the exfiltration of credit card data from point-of-sale (PoS) terminals. While the other solution was only able to block hard-coded versions of DNS attacks and failed to detect the exfiltration of credit card data;Blocked 6 zero day local specific phishing sites that the other solution missed;More effectively prevented malware from being installed, by blocking access to malicious servers, and detecting and stopping the infiltration of malicious data via DNS better than competition;Made threat response teams more effective with a more intuitive user interface, more useful threat indicators, greater context on threats, and a broader ecosystem with which it can integrate and share threat intelligence. Read the full article

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ClimeCo Makes Strategic Investment in EarthUP, Inc., an Innovative Sustainability Solutions Company

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Time Doctor-Redington partnership brings world-class software for remote work to India Market

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Delta Electronics Acquires Trihedral, a SCADA and IIoT Software Leader, to Facilitate a Broader Business in Digitized Manufacturing

Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, today announced it has closed the acquisition of Trihedral Engineering Limited, a SCADA and IIoT software company based in Canada. Under the terms of the agreement, Delta Electronics (Netherlands) B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta, acquired 100% of Trihedral's interests. The acquisition represents a key part of Delta's long-term strategy in its industrial automation and system integration portfolios – and is expected to help facilitate a broader business in digitized manufacturing. Delta plans to use its existing global sales and service network to expand Trihedral's signature VTScada software solution globally. Integrating Delta hardware and Trihedral software will allow both to play on their strengths in the rapidly growing fields of Automation, AI and Data Analytics. "Together, Delta and Trihedral will foster significant synergies – adding value both for our employees and customers worldwide," said Simon Chang, president and COO of Delta Electronics, Inc. "Trihedral's leadership in SCADA software development will bring considerable benefits for our organization, as we focus on smart manufacturing, smart building and smart micro-grid solutions." Trihedral will keep both its namesake brand and management team. Delta will leverage Trihedral's expertise in a range of field applications and industries, including water treatment, oil and gas, among others. Read the full article

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CyCraft Japan joins the Nippon CSIRT Association

CyCraft Technology, the fastest-growing cybersecurity firm in Asia, today announced that CyCraft JP has officially joined the Nippon CSIRT Association (NCA). CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team, Computer Security Incident Response Team) refers to a team of security analysts that not only deal with and respond to cybersecurity incidents, collect and analyze incident-related vulnerability intelligence, attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) but also formulate playbooks and carry out responses to security incidents. In recent years, Japanese organizations have begun building and developing their own internal CSIRTs; however, cyberattacks in the 21st century are becoming more and more sophisticated and frequent, making it more and more difficult for one CSIRT to handle individually. Nippon CSIRT Association (NCA) was established to unify the intelligence, resources, and capability of multiple CSIRTs so that one CSIRT leveraging the intelligence, resources, and capability of other CSIRTs could overcome security incidents and increase Japan's overall cyber resilience. NCA is not the first CSIRT organization CyCtaft has joined. Earlier this year, CyCraft Taiwan joined the international CSIRT organization, FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams). Read the full article

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Vulcan Cyber Launches Remedy Cloud, Providing Free Access to Thousands of Vulnerability Fixes

Providing remediation solutions on demand, Vulcan Remedy Cloud helps security and IT teams collaboratively "get fix done"  Vulcan Cyber®, the vulnerability remediation orchestration company, today announced Vulcan Remedy Cloud, a free service built on the world's largest database of curated remedies for thousands of security vulnerabilities. By sharing the Remedy Cloud library of fixes with the global vulnerability management community, Vulcan Cyber provides a powerful tool that streamlines the work of remediation by helping security and IT teams more effectively coordinate remediation campaigns. Vulcan Cyber logo Vulcan Remedy Cloud In related news, Vulcan Cyber today announced Vulcan remediation analytics, which adds powerful business intelligence capabilities to its remediation orchestration platform. "Vulnerability management should be a means to an end, but due to process breakdowns there's never an end -- just a growing backlog of vulnerabilities that require remediation," says Yaniv Bar-Dayan, Vulcan Cyber co-founder and CEO. "We've identified a critical breakdown in the process when security teams hand off vulnerability remediation tasks to IT operations teams. Vulcan Remedy Cloud streamlines this workflow by providing both teams with remediation playbooks. This one function is extraordinarily effective at creating cross-team alignment and cooperation. Read the full article

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Khaled Ismail joins Omnix International as Chief Commercial Officer

Khaled joins Omnix International from Oracle, where he served in several roles, most recently as Senior Vice President – Business Applications, ECEMEAThe veteran information technology and business development professional will steer Omnix International's growth in key markets Omnix International, an end-to-end intelligent technology solutions and services provider, announced today the appointment of Khaled Ismail as Chief Commercial Officer, effective November 1st, 2020. Omnix helps clients lead the digital optimization and transformation journey across workforce, operations, customers and services, to achieve a competitive advantage. Khaled Ismail joins Omnix International as Chief Commercial Officer Khaled Ismail joins Omnix with several decades of leadership in the information technology industry, having held senior roles that saw achieve measurable benefits and remarkable business development success. In his new role, Khaled will lead Omnix International's business strategy and commercial development, applying his expertise and skills toward positioning Omnix International as the next-generation systems integrator across the MENA region. Commenting on Khaled's appointment, Wael Fakharany, Chief Executive Officer of Omnix International, said: "Khaled is a dynamic leader and an IT sector business development heavyweight, and we couldn't be happier to welcome him as an invaluable addition to the executive team at this period of the company's growth." "His Read the full article

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Fall Update: Mapp Cloud introduces a Multitude of New Features - Interactive Emails, Unified Customer Profiles, Cookieless Tracking, Smart Notifications and More

Mapp, the international provider of insight-led customer engagement, is launching a comprehensive product update of Mapp Cloud, its digital marketing platform. The Fall Update includes 18 new features, improvements, and integrations. The package provides marketers with an even greater ability to use Mapp Cloud and its modules effectively, and specifically focuses on customer intelligence, marketing analytics, personalization, and automation from a single source. COVID-19 and its consequences means that it is more important than ever to engage with consumers in a regular and targeted manner, guided by reliable insights. Only in this way can marketers increase their campaign ROI across all channels. The Fall Update enhances Mapp's role as a technical partner to digital and medium-sized companies as they seek growth in the "New Normal." And the benefits come at significantly lower costs for enterprise capabilities and shorter implementation times to standard market expectations. Michael Diestelberg, VP Product & Marketing at Mapp, comments: "With this enhancement of Mapp Cloud, we've combined the latest trends in the market with the specific needs of our customers. The Fall Update brings a long-awaited innovation for email marketing. Just in time for next year's 50th anniversary of email, Mapp is one of the first global providers to support the new AMP for Email standard, which enables completely new interactive experiences. Read the full article

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WiMi Announces Subsidiary VIYI Technology to Acquire Fe-da Electronics Company Pte Ltd

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Procore Delivers Artificial Intelligence to Unlock Insights from Construction Data

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AV-Comparatives releases intermediate results for 19 leading endpoint security solutions

The results are based on an In-The-Wild-Test-Set including zero-days, exploits, malware files and other threats. You can find details on the speed impact of all Endpoint Solutions as well," says Peter Stelzhammer, co-founder AV-Comparatives. AV-Comparatives has released the October Fact Sheet for its Business Main Test Series. Endpoint protection products for Windows from 19 security vendors were tested: Test-Chart Enterprise Endpoint Solutions by AV-Comparatives (PRNewsfoto/AV-Comparatives) Tested Enterprise Endpoint Solutions by AV-Comparatives (PRNewsfoto/AV-Comparatives) Acronis, Avast, Bitdefender, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Elastic, ESET, FireEye, Fortinet, G Data, K7, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Panda, Sophos, SparkCognition, Vipre, and VMware. The report covers the Malware Protection Test, and August / September results of the Real-World Protection Test. The Malware Protection Test checks each security product's ability to protect a PC against malicious files. These might be already on the system, on an external drive, or copied over the local area network. The Real-World Protection test tests the products' ability to protect against Internet-borne threats. Any threats are executed on the test system. This allows the security products to use additional protection features, such as behavioural analysis, to detect the malware. Each test also includes its own false-positives check, to ensure that business users are not plagued with false alarms. Read the full article

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TrumpBot is an AI "Clone" of Donald Trump That You Can Speak With

MasterBot has created TrumpBot, a voice chat application that tries to impersonate Donald Trump for entertainment purposes. TrumpBot was released today, in view of the upcoming elections. TrumpBot uses Machine Learning to mimic the president of the United States by simulating his speaking style, the content of his conversations, and his voice. TrumpBot is the first online AI "clone" of a real person. Users can chat with TrumpBot by visiting https://trumpbot.master.bot . If you want to speak to TrumpBot using your voice, you must enable your microphone and use Chrome browser. TrumpBot will always respond with voice/audio so make sure the volume is up. MasterBot used the small version of OpenAI's GPT-2 for language generation. Bigger versions or GPT-3 were avoided to keep the responses less human and more bot-like. "We trained the AI to learn to respond like Donald Trump," says Ioannis Tsiokos, Director of MasterBot. "However, users should never assume that Donald Trump has or would say the things that TrumpBot says. Use TrumpBot for entertainment purposes only." Although TrumpBot was designed to not sound as human or smart as Mr. Trump, it still provides a glimpse of the future. If current technology allows us to make bots that can be mistaken for humans, it will soon be possible to make bots that clone specific people. MasterBot believes this is both an opportunity and a threat. "We think that chatbots can be used to teach and inspire," says Ioannis. Read the full article

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Omnilert Launches Industry's First AI-Powered, Visual Gun Detection Solution

Emergency Response Teams Receive Advance Warning Before Shots Are Fired Omnilert, the innovation leader and most trusted partner in emergency communications, announced today the industry's first visual gun detection solution. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Omnilert Gun Detect reliably and rapidly recognizes firearms and immediately triggers multi-channel alerts and automated pre-defined safety protocols. The combination of these rich capabilities provides safety teams with the broadest array of solutions, spanning prevention, notification, engagement, and management. Watch the Omnilert Gun Detect demo video to see the industry's first visual gun detection solution in action. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Omnilert Gun Detect reliably and rapidly recognizes firearms and immediately triggers multi-channel alerts and automated pre-defined safety protocols. The combination of these rich capabilities provides safety teams with the broadest array of solutions, spanning prevention, notification, engagement, and management. As gun violence in the U.S. continues to steadily increase, organizations and institutions are seeking new ways to protect their constituents. Video surveillance systems are increasingly being deployed, although monitoring can be difficult, unreliable, and expensive. Gun Detect offers always-on monitoring with unparalleled reliability at a price point affordable to organizations of all sizes and complexities.  Existing Read the full article