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GenAI assistant Tricentis qTest Copilot lands from Tricentis

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 by Richard Harris

Tricentis announced the expansion of its test management and analytics platform, Tricentis qTest, with the launch of Tricentis qTest Copilot. The latest addition to its suite of generative AI-powered Tricentis Copilot solutions, qTest Copilot harnesses the power of generative AI to simplify and accelerate test case generation, allowing for greater test coverage and high...

Anticipatory design faces challenges in business implementation

Thursday, November 14, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, anticipatory design is emerging as a game-changer. This innovative approach, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Big Data (BD), aims to enhance user experience by predicting and addressing needs before they are even articulated. However, despite its promising potential, many businesses are grappli...

Image-to-text and text-to-speech integrations explained

Saturday, November 9, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the integration of image-to-text and text-to-speech models is paving the way for groundbreaking applications. In this second installment, Joas Pambou is spearheading efforts to develop an advanced system that transforms static images and videos into interactive conversational experiences. This innovation aims to ...

Video game cheating study findings

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 by Richard Harris

A new study has revealed the top ten U.S. states that cheat the least in video games. CS gaming site Clash.gg analyzed the average number of Google searches each month in each U.S. state for cheat-related terms combined with video games, such as 'Minecraft walkthrough' and 'Lethal Company cheats'. Those with the lowest search volume determined the r...

ChatGPT lacks kid suitability

Thursday, October 17, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

While large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have made incredible advancements in natural language processing, they come with significant challenges, particularly in children’s education. These models often generate biased content or produce language that is too complex or inappropriate for younger audiences. Studies have shown that LLMs can perpetua...

Copilot in Excel with Python announced by Microsoft

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield

The next wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot is being launched, uniting web, work, and Pages as a new design system for knowledge work. First, Copilot Pages is introduced as a dynamic, persistent canvas designed for multiplayer AI collaboration, marking the first new digital artifact for the AI age. Second, enhancements to Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps are being rap...

Most captivating AI tools revealed

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield

eDiscovery experts Reveal assembled a list of AI-powered tools from online directories and then ranked them by average visit duration to see which users spend the longest time on. The 100 tools with the most organic traffic, as well as Reveal’s own eDiscovery tool, Ask, then provided the seed list that was used to obtain data on each tool’s average visit dur...

Mobile games are main income for developers

Monday, September 16, 2024 by Richard Harris

Mobile games continue to be the primary source of income for mobile app developers. According to the numbers presented by NoKyc.com, mobile games are expected to account for 52.2% of all downloads in both major app stores in 2024. Mobile users are expected to download 150.4 billion games in 2024 Mobile phone users are more likely to download games than a...

Enterprise data market revolutionized by Cribl

Monday, September 16, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, announced it has closed a $319 million oversubscribed Series E round, comprised of a combined primary and secondary transaction, bringing the company’s total capital secured to over $600 million and increasing its valuation to $3.5 billion, up 40% since the company’s Series D round in 2022. Cribl closes $319M Se...

Free trials have high customer conversion rate

Thursday, September 12, 2024 by Richard Harris

New data shows 30-day free trials had the highest customer acquisition (32%) and conversion rate (56%) and are shown to be 28 times more effective than free products. However, despite its effectiveness, nearly 3 in 4 ecommerce sellers didn't use the approach in 2023. Free trials have high customer conversion rate These findings come from the ‘Optima...

Apps that use icons gain users

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 by Austin Harris

New research from SplitMetrics has found that apps that optimize icons can land up to 25% more users. The findings are part of a new report, ASO Benchmarks & Mobile Trends Report 2024, which analysed close to 200 apps and over 3500 A/B tests across Google Play and the Apple App Store. Apps that use icons gain users The study found that the average mobile ...

Humanoid Drink Robot from Richtech Robotics

Monday, September 9, 2024 by Austin Harris

Richtech Robotics, a Nevada-based provider of AI-driven service robots, announced the installation of its advanced robotic beverage system, ADAM, at a One Kitchen in a Rockford, IL Walmart. This milestone marks the second installation as part of a planned rollout across 240 One Kitchen locations in the U.S. One Kitchen r...

US cloud titans bet big on AI

Monday, August 26, 2024 by Richard Harris

Sales for the North American tech sector grew 7.2% year over year and EBITDA grew 15.1%. Trailing 12 months sales grew 4.5%, indicating growth is accelerating. The robust EBITDA growth demonstrates significant operating leverage gained from the "year of efficiency" in 2023 when companies managed their costs very tightly. There's somewhat of a bifurcatio...

Top 10 apps used the most while driving

Monday, August 19, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

It’s easy to hop in the car, buckle up, start the engine, and hit the road. It’s just as easy to put your phone down and focus on driving. But, according to a CMT survey of over 1,200 people, 73% of Americans don’t. In 2023, Americans spent 2 minutes and 6 seconds using their phones while driving. The Scherer family knows the painful consequences...

No-code app creator Cobuilder launched by Airtable

Thursday, August 8, 2024 by Austin Harris

Airtable has announced the launch of Airtable Cobuilder, their no-code application builder. Describe what you want in words, and Cobuilder takes your idea from concept to reality, generating a customizable application in seconds. This simple no-code approach using natural language means that anyone can easily build and customize intuitive apps that transf...

RadQuest web3 gamified onboarding platform lands from Radix

Thursday, August 8, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Radix launches RadQuest, a fully mobile-ready Web3 gamified onboarding platform designed to enable anyone to easily and confidently use Web3 and DeFi on Radix. RadQuest is the latest milestone in Radix’s Breakout2024, a year of initiatives designed to build momentum in the ecosystem. Built-in collaboration with leading digital product studio ustwo, developers o...

Mobile banking soars above online banking

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield

With mobile banking usage set to soar, a new study has revealed which states are leading the way, with Florida emerging as the most financially tech-savvy state. The study, conducted by software development company Vention, utilized Google Keyword Planner to analyze the nationwide Google search volume behind various keywords related to mobile banking - includi...

Blizzard developers form union with WoW Game Makers Guild

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Austin Harris

Over 500 workers at the World of Warcraft development team have joined the Communications Workers of America and Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment has recognized their union. The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild - CWA Union (WoWGG-CWA), which includes designers, engineers, producers, artists, quality assurance testers, and other game developers, is the firs...

Data analytics trends shared by Oxylabs

Thursday, July 25, 2024 by Richard Harris

Rytis Ulys discusses future trends in data analytics and business intelligence, including digitization, the rise of big data, and the impact of generative AI models. These advancements are leading to data democratization, allowing non-specialists to engage with data analysis through tools like “text to SQL” products. Ulys also highlights the need f...

Apple Swift Student Challenge winners for 2024

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 by Austin Harris

Apple’s annual Swift Student Challenge recognizes the best in student coding, and this year, it has added a new category to its ranks. Out of 350 winning submissions, 50 students have been named Distinguished Winners for building app playgrounds that stand out for their innovation, creativity, social impact, or inclusivity. These 50 students have been invited to a...

AI relationship search terms the US queries the most

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 by Richard Harris

It’s been described as “Her” in real life. The Spike Jonze-directed science fiction film follows the lead character as he embarks on a relationship with an operating system. Now, 11 years after the film’s release, that very reality is here. AI relationship chatbots have swept into the world’s eye at great speed, offering as little as some o...

Rise in cyberattacks is alarming folks

Friday, June 28, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

A recent study has uncovered a startling rise in cyberattacks from 2022 to 2023. Throughout 2023, the United States experienced an alarming 3,205 data breaches, marking a dramatic 78% surge from the 1,801 incidents reported in 2022. The study conducted by data collection experts SOAX utilized data from the Identity Theft Resource Center on the number of data vi...

Mobile gaming takes the lead in gaming industry

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

Easy accessibility to smartphones in the last decade has put mobile gaming at the forefront of the gaming industry. Not long ago, mobile games had a limited appeal to companies involved in gaming development. However, as things stand, mobile games have become the biggest money churner for developers/publishers. According to the data available on Statista, m...

Top startups of the decade revealed

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 by Richard Harris

New data has revealed the top 10 most successful startups of the decade. The Startup Success Index, by software development experts at Vention, analyzed a list of 1,220 startups, from CB Insights, against its valuation, the public perception of the company through search volume, its growth score, and the number of employees. Results for each category were converted...

TRON HTX DAO Hong Kong Meetup 2024

Monday, April 15, 2024 by Richard Harris

On April 9, the TRON x HTX DAO: Hong Kong Meetup 2024 event, hosted by TRON and co-organized by HTX DAO, took place in Hong Kong with great success. This bustling event brought together the brightest minds of the HTX DAO ecosystem: project leaders, committee members, and influential KOLs. Their energy was palpable as they delivered speeches delving into the future of HT...

AlgoKit blockchain toolset adds native Python support

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

The Algorand Foundation announces the launch of AlgoKit 2.0, the latest upgrade to the AlgoKit command line interface (CLI) - a simple, one-stop toolset for developers building on the Algorand protocol. AlgoKit 2.0’s native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python. The toolkit has also been internally re-a...

Tom Brady NFT sale sparks warning to consumers from experts

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

An expert has warned those considering purchasing an NFT off the back of the Tom Brady $40.7k sale, as NFT marketplaces saw $38 million stolen by scammers last year. The findings, pulled together by Smart Betting Guide, analyzed a database recording crypto scams and exploits to identify the most vulnerable platforms and blockchains over the last year - with NFT marke...

IT security predictions for 2024 from HYCU

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 by Richard Harris

Subbiah Sundaram shares his 2024 IT predictions, plus why organizations need to make sure they have a way to protect and recover SaaS application data, the impacts LLMs and AI will have on IT security, the rise of ransomware attacks, the frequency of attacks predicted to be at every two seconds by 2030, and that the focus of organizations will shift ...

Frostpunk Beyond the Ice opens early access

Monday, February 5, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

Com2uS, in collaboration with NetEase and 11 bit studios, has opened Early Access for Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice on Google Play and Apple App Store for players living in the US, UK, and Philippines. Fans of the original Frostpunk, which has sold more than 3 million copies since its launch in 2018 and was a nominee for both the British Academy Film Awards and BAFTA Game A...

Secure software development insights from The Linux Foundation

Monday, February 5, 2024 by Richard Harris

The Linux Foundation published a new report, Maintainer Perspectives on Open Source Software Security, based on a survey of OSS maintainers and core contributors, to understand perspectives on OSS security and the uptake and adoption of security best practices by maintainers, core contributors, end users, and other members of the OSS ecosystem. Maintainer Perspective...

AI marketing automation from Act On Data Lake

Thursday, February 1, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Act-On Software is helping marketers harness the power of data and improve customer engagement with a robust Data Lake, functioning as a private Customer Data Platform (CDP) within Act-On’s customer-beloved marketing automation (MA) solution. As martech stacks become increasingly complex, data extensibility is critical. Act-On’s Data Lake allows for ...

TRON highlights from 2023

Thursday, January 25, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

TRON achieved a series of developments and collaborations that have enhanced its position in the Web3 space. The following are highlights from the year 2023. TRON highlights from 2023: Network growth and stablecoin dominance The TRON network has seen proper growth, with a 54% increase in accounts, now exceeding 204 million. The total transaction volume reached ove...

Mobile gaming cross platform Pley brings games to the web

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 by Richard Harris

Pley, the cross-platform solution that makes mobile games playable on the web, announced a partnership with Tilting Point to distribute its farming simulation game Homesteads: Dream Farm. Pley’s complete solution has enabled Tilting Point and game developer Enixan to port and distribute the title on Pley’s "native web" browser platform, e...

AI performance monitoring from Datadog and Vertex AI

Thursday, November 16, 2023 by Richard Harris

Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which enables Google Cloud customers to proactively observe and secure their cloud-native and hybrid applications within Datadog’s unified platform. As part of the expanded partnership and integrations, Datadog is one of the fi...