SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider, strengthens its presence in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong with the appointment of Victoria Harverson. In her leadership role she joins the sales team in the regional head office based in Singapore, and reports to Radha Pillay, Head of Sales Apac. With the advancement of SmartStream's artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, and the availability of fast onboarding of new solutions as managed services or in the cloud - customers in the region can start to realise the benefits this brings to their middle- and back-office operations. Victoria will be working with the local team to implement account management best practices as well as being responsible for driving and nurturing new opportunities in the adoption of digital strategies within the Asian customer base. Victoria joins SmartStream from Duco where she served as Business Development Director and Head of Sales Apac.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and computer-assisted technologies for joint replacement surgery, and KenSci, a healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) platform company, announced today that a collaborative, foundational study on using machine learning (ML) to predict outcomes after shoulder arthroplasty has been published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, one of the premier scientific journals in orthopaedics. The research analyzes the potential of ML to use preoperative data to anticipate patients' post-operative results after anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) or reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA). These results can help surgeons preoperatively identify if a patient will achieve certain clinical improvement thresholds to appropriately risk-stratify patients for these elective procedures. Specifically, this research explores the efficacy of ML to predict the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (ASES), Constant, global shoulder function and VAS pain score, as well as to predict a patient's active range of motion in abduction, forward flexion and external rotation. This research also studies the ability of ML to identify if a patient may achieve clinical improvement that exceeds the minimal clinically important difference threshold as well as the substantial clinical benefit threshold for each outcome measure.

There are many who believe that the power of artificial intelligence (AI) might be what brings London out of the current Covid-19 crisis. In fact, many leaders in the AI industry in the UK and worldwide, from companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google have even been attending meeting to discuss how their combined efforts might help to flatten the curve. One major strength that many of these companies have in common is their incredible means for gathering, sorting, and evaluating massive amounts of data. In some respects, these companies were literally created to help with a massive outbreak like this, especially in highly concentrated cities like London. Facebook, for example, has the information needed to gather data about population in the UK.

Microsoft has revealed 13 games coming to its Xbox Series X console when the machine launches this winter. In an hour-long presentation, streamed live on Thursday, the company announced that well-known titles such as the recently announced Assassin's Creed Valhalla, as well as Madden NFL 21 and Yakuza: Like a Dragon, will all be on Xbox Series X. Also featured was Paradox Interactive's vampire adventure, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Codemasters presented its racer DiRT 5 complete with impressive lighting and mud splatter effects, and an option to run it in 4K at 60 frames-per-second or in a lower resolution at 120fps. Namco Bandai showed a new anime-style sci-fi thriller named Scarlet Nexus, about a group of psychic law enforcers. The rest of the games were from independent studios: futuristic first-person action shooter called Bright Memory Infinite, which is already coming to PC; supernatural horror game The Medium from Blair Witch creator Bloober Team (with music by Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka); a 1930s puzzle adventure named Call of the Sea from Swedish indie publisher Raw Fury; space combat shooter Chorus from Deep Silver; cyberpunk action-RPG The Ascent from Curve Digital; Second Extinction, a three-player co-op dinosaur shooter from Systemic Reaction; and finally, Scorn, a first-person horror adventure set in a sinister Giger-esque dream world developed by Serbian team, Ebb.

New York-based tech consultancy ABI Research has stated in a press release that, whilst biometric investment struggles, AI has been gaining traction. The reason, the firm explains, is a logical one: government regulations seeking to limit contact and cross-contamination have made biometric equipment unappealing to the tech market, whilst the need AI-powered automation to maintain business continuity is growing. Dimitrios Pavlakis, Digital Security Analyst at ABI, considers that the biometric sector's loss could reach approximately US$2bn, which could have significant implications for the public sector. "Fingerprint biometrics vendors are struggling to uphold the new stringent hygiene and infection control protocols. These regulations have been correctly introduced for the safety of users and personnel, but they have also affected sales in certain verticals," he said.

Digital transformation using artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud has accelerated amid the COVID-19 pandemic and these new technologies can play an important role in helping companies gain competitive advantage, IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said on Tuesday. Speaking during a keynote at the IBM's Think Digital 2020 conference, Krishna, who took charge last month, said the pace of adoption of transformation journeys by enterprises has been "compacted" into months. He noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised on the "critical importance of technology solutions that enable speed, flexibility, insight and innovation". "They determine how quickly you can pivot to new market opportunities, how well you serve your clients, how much you can scale. And how fast you can respond to a crisis, like the one we are facing today," he said.

Trinamix, a Platinum-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced the launch of Industry 4.0 Lab to help enterprises enable smart manufacturing using Oracle Internet of Things (IoT), Oracle Adaptive Intelligence, and Oracle Blockchain applications. Hosted at Trinamix's San Jose office, the lab will offer visiting customers a miniature experience that highlights how Oracle solutions will work in an industrial scenario, connected with machines through devices and gateways. Trinamix has been working on Industry 4.0 (I4.0) solutions for the last two years and has undertaken various initiatives to provide an end-to-end offering to its customers. Trinamix offers design thinking, creating quick proof of concept, road map and implementation services on I4.0. This lab drives Trinamix's focus on the newest and the next wave of disruptive technologies including Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, data science and factory automation.

Artificial Intelligence is anticipated to disrupt every business and enterprises across the world. One of the major factors that drive the growth of artificial intelligence market in retail is the advancement in big data, and adoption of artificial intelligence enabled devices and services across various different domains. Additionally, the expansion of human-aware artificial intelligence systems and the wide scope of AI technologies are the opportunities in retail market that exist at present. Further, artificial intelligence technologies are the future for many industries that are determined for effective, low-cost operations and high productivity in their respective business segments and markets. The factors that drive the market growth comprise of growing need for surveillance and monitoring at a brick and mortar store, rising responsiveness and application of artificial intelligence in the retail industry for effective logistics and product delivery, improved user-experience, amended productivity, and higher return on investment (RoI).

Dascena Inc., a machine-learning diagnostic algorithm company, closed on a $50 million Series B financing round led by Frazier Healthcare Partners. The Oakland, California-based company targets early disease intervention, such as acute decompensation (heart failure), sepsis and acute kidney injury, to improve patient care outcomes. In addition to Frazier, the funding round also included Longitude Capital, existing investor Euclidean Capital and an undisclosed investor, according to a company press release. Ritankar Das, founder and CEO of Dascena, said in a written statement that more than 250,000 patients die of sepsis annually. Dascena's flagship sepsis algorithm, InSight, has helped reduce the number of deaths by 58 percent and decrease the length of hospital stay by 21 percent, in patients with sepsis, according to the company.

TUSTIN, Calif., May 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Nigel Willson joins Marktechpost.com Nigel is a Global Speaker, Influencer, and Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and Co-founder of We and AI. He is ranked amongst the top AI Influencers in the World and as Co-Founder of We and AI (a non-government organization) is working to raise awareness of the risks and rewards of AI and helping to give humanity a voice in the age of machines. Marktechpost.com is a California-based Artificial Intelligence platform for the latest updates in machine learning, deep learning, and data science research. The theme of the platform is set in such a way that AI and Data Science professionals can share their knowledge and suggestions with the AI and Data Science aspirants.