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Day: February 11, 2021

SuperAnnotate, a computer vision platform, partners with with open-source to spread visual ML – TechCrunch

By Grace 2 months ago

SuperAnnotate, a NoCode computer vision platform, is partnering with OpenCV, a non-profit organization that has built a large collection of open-source computer vision algorithms. The move means startups and entrepreneurs will be able to build their own AI models and allow cameras to detect objects using machine learning. SuperAnnotate has so far raised $3M to date from investors including Point Nine Capital, Fathom Capital and Berkeley SkyDeck Fund.

The AI-powered computer vision platform for data scientists and annotation teams will provide OpenCV AI Kit (OAK) users with access to its platform, as well as launching a computer vision course on building AI models. SuperAnnotate will also set up the AI Kit’s camera to detect objects using machine learning and OAK users will get $200 of credit to set up their systems on its platform. 

The OAK is a multi-camera device that can run computer vision and 3D perception

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Key ways to embrace the hybrid cloud

By Grace 2 months ago

NTT report highlights how the combo approach is becoming the go-to model for enterprise IT during the coronavirus era.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls on, continually shifting the workplace from cubicles to remote home offices for IT professionals and the like, the hybrid cloud—that is, the combo use of compute and storage services from public cloud providers coupled with private hardware—has perhaps never been more crucial than in it is in present moment. 

To assess how the enterprise is successfully (or not so successfully) embracing the hybrid cloud during these tumultuous times, the global technology services company NTT just released its new study, the “2021 Hybrid Cloud Report,” which highlights how the hybrid cloud is becoming the essential, go-to model for enterprise IT during the coronavirus era.  

The firm surveyed 950 decision leaders across 13 countries, it says, about the recent digital transformation issues that have spiked

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AI reveals how those coveted Super Bowl LV commercials failed

By Grace 2 months ago

Each of the $5.5 million-per-30-second spot commercials, which often gain as much attention as the game itself, were analyzed and assessed for effectiveness through AI and facial coding.

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The most watched and anticipated commercials of the year—and certainly the most expensive—air during the Super Bowl, and each is met with scrutiny and judgement. Consider the response on social media and late-night talk shows for beloved icon Bruce Springsteen’s first foray into advertising. After nearly six decades without an appearance in a commercial, The Boss stunted for Jeep, in what many critics consider to be the best of the Super Bowl LV bunch. 

Certainly the goal of advertisers is to reach many consumers as effectively as possible, and they’re willing to pay the minimum $5.5 million for 30 seconds to do so. Despite reports of viewer fails, and the worst ratings since 2007, 96.4 million people

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Texting stays a very fashionable technique of communication, however 5G’s rollout is stalled

By Grace 2 months ago

The brand new 2021 State of Texting report from Zipwhip revealed will probably be “years” earlier than 5G’s widespread availability.

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Of the numerous methods COVID-19 has affected the office, new analysis revealed a major change in the way in which companies and shoppers talk: The enterprise texting platform Zipwhip discovered that 70% of companies are texting prospects. The 2021 State of Texting report charted the traction of enterprise texting, which gained recognition as a result of crowding of channels similar to e mail. The arrival of the pandemic dramatically accelerated the adoption of enterprise texting. Analysis revealed that 83% of texts are learn inside half-hour, however many are seen and browse inside three minutes.

However do not look to 5G to right away enhance texting additional. Solely 33% of shoppers use 5G on their private telephones at the moment. 5G rollout has been sluggish, and it is

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You are your personal boss: The state of the self-employed

By Grace 2 months ago

A brand new evaluation reveals that unbiased employees have been one section of the workforce that benefited through the pandemic.

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Regardless of the disheartening studies final fall that 11 million Individuals have been unemployed and final week’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report stating, “The labor market continued to replicate the affect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to include it,” the January 2021 BLS report was not with out optimistic information: The variety of unemployed has now decreased to 10.1 million. Moreover, new evaluation  (“Self-Employed Throughout COVID-19”) from payroll administration firm skynova noticed that regardless of the numerous industries negatively impacted by the pandemic, “there’s one sector of the workforce that could be rising considerably: Self-employed Individuals.” 

Many within the tech sector—constantly nonetheless in demand—have opted to stay contractors, and never dedicated to an organization and a boss, in different phrases, they reply to nobody however themselves;

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Pop-up ballot: 23% of respondents have left main cities because the begin of WFH

By Grace 2 months ago

The coronavirus pandemic has remodeled the best way we work, be taught, and work together on brief discover. Seems, COVID-19 is also reshaping metro areas across the nation.

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In 2020, Blind, an nameless community for professionals, carried out a survey in partnership with housing app ROOM8 to know employer sentiments “towards everlasting distant working,” workforce relocation developments, and extra. The outcomes discovered that many respondents had just lately fled main cities across the US. To grasp what proportion of respondents moved away from a serious metropolis “since WFH started,” what cities folks had been leaving, and the place that they had since relocated, Blind carried out a survey from Jan. 29 and Feb. 8.

Seems, COVID-19 and an untethered distant workforce could possibly be reshaping metro areas across the nation.

US staff on the transfer

Out of 6,135 responses, 23% mentioned that they had moved away from a

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