The pandemic has given rise to social media accounts operated by malicious actors who aim to sow misinformation about COVID-19. As vaccination campaigns get underway, they threaten to stymie the push toward herd immunity around the world. Misinformation about masks and injections could contribute — and have contributed — to …
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[Article has been updated on 3 December 2020, 4:22pm] For the past few years, Grab Holdings and Gojek have been locked in a long and expensive battle for dominance in the Southeast Asian region. According to annual filings, Grab has been burning through cash and lost more than US$ 200 …
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When your user base just keeps growing, I’m pretty sure you can confidently take it as a sign that what you’re offering is something much needed. Since its launch in 2015, JomParking has had over 500k user downloads, an ever-increasing number from their achievement of 1,790 users in the first …
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Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer branding Download eBook Entity linking fulfills a key role in grounded language understanding. Given a text mention of an entity (e.g., the word “helpful”), an algorithm identifies the entity’s corresponding entry in a knowledge base (such …
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The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here Microsoft Teams is continuing to ride the remote work and learning wave kicked off by the coronavirus pandemic. During Microsoft’s Q1 2021 earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella shared that Microsoft Teams …
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Author’s Blurb: When thinking about sonic or electric toothbrushes, I would just brush off the idea seeing as it is more of a luxury in oral hygiene than a necessity. On top of that, making a run to the store every few months just to change heads is much more …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now In partnership with ExxonMobil and fintech provider Fiserv, Amazon today launched an Alexa feature that lets users pay for gas using a voice command. The integration was first announced in January at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, but today marks …
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Juris Technologies (JurisTech), a Malaysian fintech company has announced its acquisition of iMoney, another Malaysian fintech company. It’s clear that as the world heads towards digital banking, banking is no longer just a transactional business, co-founder and CEO of JurisTech, See Wai Hun said. Now consumers want an end-to-end experience, …
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Ride-hailing giant Grab has submitted an application to charge customers an $ 0.32 (including GST) per ride as a “platform fee”. The news was announced by the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) in a media release today (28 July). According to Grab, the fee will enable the company …
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