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Zoom Updated With Inbuilt Calendar, Email, Team Collaboration, and Virtual Coach Features
Zoom has announced the introduction of an inbuilt mail and calendar client service, along with features that allow for a virtual coworking space, AI chatbots for customer assistance and guidance for sales professional, alongside a marketplace for app developers.
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Mastercard Launches ‘Crypto Secure’ to Assist Banks in Preventing Cases of Fraud
Mastercard has launched a new tool called ‘Crypto Secure’ that is intended to help banks and financial institutions detect as well as prevent fraudulent activities associated with virtual digital assets. CipherTrace blockchain startup will be providing the infrastructure for rolling-out the tool.
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Citroen India Introduces After-Sales Services For Customers
Citroen Service Promise offers a basket of services including servicing at home, a 180-minute RSA guarantee, and genuine spare parts availability in 24 hours. There's also Virtual Assistance and periodic service and maintenance with the pick-up and drop facility.
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Sberbank Unveils Second Supercomputer Christofari Neo to Meet Internal, External AI Demand
A second supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) upgrades form part of Sberbank's enhanced offerings of digital services such as cloud computing and virtual assistant software, Chief Technology Officer David Rafalovsky said.
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Maruti Suzuki S-Assist Launched; New AI-Based Virtual Assistant For Nexa Customers
Maruti Suzuki launches the new S-Assist platform for Nexa models and customers. It is an AI-based 24x7 virtual assistant which is scan and voice enabled and offers an immersive post-purchase experience.
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Apple Issues Clarification Over Default Music Service Feature for iOS 14.5 Beta
Apple recently clarified that the beta build of iOS 14.5 will not actually allow users to select a new default music service. Instead, the feature is Siri intelligence-based, meaning it can improve and even change over time as the virtual assistant learns to better understand its users listening habits.
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Cortana Mobile Apps to Stop Working in India and Other Countries Starting January 31, Microsoft Reiterates
Confirming once again that Microsoft was killing off its virtual assistant Cortana for Android and iOS and removing Cortana from its Launcher app for Android from January 31, the company now says the app will continue in the US only.
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Siri Interrupts Meteorologist During Broadcast, Contradicts Forecast
During a broadcast on BBC, meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker was sharing a weather forecast for snowfall in Minneapolis when he got interrupted by Apple's virtual assistant Siri.
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Microsoft Admits Contractors Listen to Skype, Cortana Chats
Microsoft has admitted that third-party contractors listen to your voice conversations on Skype and virtual assistant Cortana.
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25 Percent of Global Workers to Use Digital Assistants by 2021: Gartner
Twenty five per cent of workers globally would use a virtual employee assistant (VEA) on a daily basis by 2021 - from a mere 2 per cent in 2019 - a Gartner report said.
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Microsoft Stores Start Selling Amazon's Echo Devices
Amazon's Echo Dot and Echo devices are available online and in Microsoft Stores in the US.
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Apple Says Top Apps Using Siri Shortcuts to Make Daily Tasks Easier
Siri Shortcuts allow virtual assistant Siri to complete complex tasks with a single voice command - or sometimes without a voice command at all.
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Amazon Alexa Helping NASA Organise Daily Tasks, Make Sense of Data Sets
The intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets.
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Facebook to Shut Down 'M' Virtual Assistant Messenger Bot by January 19
"We launched this project to learn what people needed and expected of an assistant, and we learned a lot," Facebook said.
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Google Now Lets You Take a Virtual Walk on Mars
The experience was adapted from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's OnSight software, which assists scientists in planning rover drives.
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Zoom Updated With Inbuilt Calendar, Email, Team Collaboration, and Virtual Coach Features
Zoom has announced the introduction of an inbuilt mail and calendar client service, along with features that allow for a virtual coworking space, AI chatbots for customer assistance and guidance for sales professional, alongside a marketplace for app developers.
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Mastercard Launches ‘Crypto Secure’ to Assist Banks in Preventing Cases of Fraud
Mastercard has launched a new tool called ‘Crypto Secure’ that is intended to help banks and financial institutions detect as well as prevent fraudulent activities associated with virtual digital assets. CipherTrace blockchain startup will be providing the infrastructure for rolling-out the tool.
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Citroen India Introduces After-Sales Services For Customers
Citroen Service Promise offers a basket of services including servicing at home, a 180-minute RSA guarantee, and genuine spare parts availability in 24 hours. There's also Virtual Assistance and periodic service and maintenance with the pick-up and drop facility.
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Sberbank Unveils Second Supercomputer Christofari Neo to Meet Internal, External AI Demand
A second supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) upgrades form part of Sberbank's enhanced offerings of digital services such as cloud computing and virtual assistant software, Chief Technology Officer David Rafalovsky said.
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Maruti Suzuki S-Assist Launched; New AI-Based Virtual Assistant For Nexa Customers
Maruti Suzuki launches the new S-Assist platform for Nexa models and customers. It is an AI-based 24x7 virtual assistant which is scan and voice enabled and offers an immersive post-purchase experience.
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Apple Issues Clarification Over Default Music Service Feature for iOS 14.5 Beta
Apple recently clarified that the beta build of iOS 14.5 will not actually allow users to select a new default music service. Instead, the feature is Siri intelligence-based, meaning it can improve and even change over time as the virtual assistant learns to better understand its users listening habits.
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Cortana Mobile Apps to Stop Working in India and Other Countries Starting January 31, Microsoft Reiterates
Confirming once again that Microsoft was killing off its virtual assistant Cortana for Android and iOS and removing Cortana from its Launcher app for Android from January 31, the company now says the app will continue in the US only.
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Siri Interrupts Meteorologist During Broadcast, Contradicts Forecast
During a broadcast on BBC, meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker was sharing a weather forecast for snowfall in Minneapolis when he got interrupted by Apple's virtual assistant Siri.
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Microsoft Admits Contractors Listen to Skype, Cortana Chats
Microsoft has admitted that third-party contractors listen to your voice conversations on Skype and virtual assistant Cortana.
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25 Percent of Global Workers to Use Digital Assistants by 2021: Gartner
Twenty five per cent of workers globally would use a virtual employee assistant (VEA) on a daily basis by 2021 - from a mere 2 per cent in 2019 - a Gartner report said.
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Microsoft Stores Start Selling Amazon's Echo Devices
Amazon's Echo Dot and Echo devices are available online and in Microsoft Stores in the US.
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Apple Says Top Apps Using Siri Shortcuts to Make Daily Tasks Easier
Siri Shortcuts allow virtual assistant Siri to complete complex tasks with a single voice command - or sometimes without a voice command at all.
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Amazon Alexa Helping NASA Organise Daily Tasks, Make Sense of Data Sets
The intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets.
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Facebook to Shut Down 'M' Virtual Assistant Messenger Bot by January 19
"We launched this project to learn what people needed and expected of an assistant, and we learned a lot," Facebook said.
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Google Now Lets You Take a Virtual Walk on Mars
The experience was adapted from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's OnSight software, which assists scientists in planning rover drives.
