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Aventri announces upgraded virtual features to boost networking
Software provider Aventri has announced an upgrade to its virtual features. The new software will allow 30000 attendees instead of a previous limit of 5000 and some other new networking features. The upgrade has been dubbed as Virtual Events 2.0 by Aventri and will be available on April 15. This will allow planners to produce virtual, hybrid, and in-person events on a single platform.
Labeling subjects has always been a challenging task for machine learning algorithms. To counter this, Snorkel AI has announced a new tool called Application Studio that provides an easy way to build common machine learning applications using templates and predefined components.The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, while other investors like Greylock, GV, In-Q-Tel, Walden, BlackRock, and Nepenthe Capital also participated. The startup has now raised $50 million in total.
Virginia-based phishing detection and response solutions company Cofense has acquired Israeli cybersecurity company Cyberfish, a phishing protection service provider powered by advanced Machine Learning technology. Both the companies confirmed about the acquisition.The combination of Cyberfish’s innovative machine learning capabilities andCofense’s detection and response technology will help the company “bring to market a holistic, advanced automation solution for email protection, detection, and response,” Cofense said in an announcement.
Cofense,founded in 2008, provides phishing detection and response solutions for enterprise organizations. Ithas a Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform that utilizes a network of over 26 million people globally, actively reporting suspected phishing attacks, combined with advanced automation to stop phishing attacks faster and stay ahead of breaches.
Cyberfishhas a zero-second phishing protection solution that uses computer vision and AI to stop phishing emails and websites in real-time. “Together, Cofense and Cyberfish will offer a one-stop-shop for an organization’s email security needs, eliminating the need for many expensive and slow-to-deploy legacy solutions,” said RohytBelani, Cofense CEO and co-founder, in a statement.
Kagan, theCyberfish CEO, said that the company was excited to join forces with Cofense to solve the phishing problem and take email security to another level. He further added, “As we met with the team, it quickly became obvious that we share the same vision for how to revolutionize the email security market, which includes addressing the business requirements of MSPs and enterprises offering advanced email protection beyond Microsoft and Google.”
Google Assistant has got an important update that makes it better equipped to understand the context and better recognize speech and pronounce names. Google has employed a new technology called the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) system to improve the quality of the interaction between Google Assistant and the users. The update has currently been made available on Google smart speakers in the US and will soon expand to smartphones and other regions as well.
The update was announced officially by Google through a blog post. Now the users can teach the virtual assistant to enunciate and recognize unique names. The company said that the assistant would listen to the users' pronunciation and remember it without recording the user's voice. Currently, the feature is available only in English, but Google plans to expand to include other languages soon.
Google has also worked upon recognizing the speech of a user and the context of the conversation in an easier manner. The company has rebuilt Assistant's Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models to better understand the context and improve its "reference resolution." The search giant said that this update uses machine learning technology powered by BERT. Due to this technology, the company claims that Google Assistant can now respond with nearly 100 percent accuracy to commands for alarms and timers.
"Maybe you've got a 10-minute timer for dinner going at the same time as another to remind the kids to start their homework in 20 minutes. You might fumble and stop mid-sentence to correct how long the timer should be set for, or maybe you don't use the exact same phrase to cancel it as you did to create it," Google described in the blog post.
“I think like most kids, I have dreamt of this moment as a kid, but honestly, nothing could prepare you for the view of Earth from space,”
The moderators can now also take questions in the form of text and better decide whom to call up next on the stage from the audience.
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It is a well-known fact that the global pandemic has significantly affected almost all the segments, and the retail segment has not been left out. However, we must note that the retailers have been very resilient in their approach while planning new strategies to deal with the ever-changing situations and pandemic-induced norms.
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