Newswire) 8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT), a leading provider of global cloud communications and customer engagement solutions, today announced key appointments to accelerate the company's Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning capabilities, and expand its human resources organization globally. The team will lead the company's efforts to leverage big data, analytics and machine learning to allow companies to gain deep, actionable insights and improve customer experiences. Dr. Ali Arsanjani was formerly the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Analytics and Machine Learning at Deep Context, a deep-learning startup. Prior to Deep Context, he was a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Analytics and Machine Learning at IBM. Ali was responsible for worldwide enablement of highly customized solutions that combined real-time, unstructured content and structured analytics and machine learning to solve customer's complex problems while at IBM. He is a recognized authority in the AI industry and has chaired and participated in numerous machine learning research bodies, including The Open Group, and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Maturity Model and Cloud Computing Architecture standards.

RapidMiner, the company that delivers real data science, fast and simple, today announced the immediate availability of RapidMiner 8.1 and RapidMiner Auto Model, a new addition to RapidMiner Studio that accelerates everything data scientists do when building machine learning models. "Automated machine learning promised data scientists a better, faster way to build models, but the reality never matched the hype," said Dr. Ingo Mierswa, founder and president of RapidMiner. When I looked closely at automated machine learning solutions, I found them to be black boxes. They restricted my ability as a data scientist to understand how the models worked and tune them when necessary. We built Auto Model on top of RapidMiner Studio to improve the productivity of data scientists without hiding the ability to understand how and why a model works. As data scientists need to tune or tweak models, they have the full power of the RapidMiner Studio visual workflow designer at their disposal."

In the middle of this live stream image of the car, on the center screen, are the words'Don't Panic'. This a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the 1979 book that was first in a series by Douglas Adams about an accidental space traveler, Arthur Dent Two of the Falcon Heavy's reusable boosters - both recycled from previous launches - returned minutes after lift-off for on-the-mark touchdowns at Cape Canaveral. Sonic booms rumbled across the region with the synchronised vertical landings. However, the craft's third and final booster missed its target - a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean - by about 328 feet (100 metres). In a press conference after the historic launch, Musk said early reports show the rocket's central core'hit the water at 300 miles per hour (480kph) and sprayed the drone ship with shrapnel'.

Trace3 will play a key role in delivering NVIDIA-based artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning solutions to enterprises worldwide. The NVIDIA partner program will include initiatives to help partners expand capabilities for the integration and deployment of NVIDIA GPU computing solutions, including NVIDIA DGX systems. The initial phase will focus on providing services for deep learning and neural network development for image analysis, natural language processing, and time-series analysis. Trace3 has been providing big data services to enterprise clients since the launch of their Data Intelligence practice in March 2014. Today, the company has new comprehensive Artificial Intelligence engagements (Server Hardware and Services) in the works at companies in the manufacturing, financial services, and banking industries as well as several other clients in the planning stages for 2018.

Amazon announced today that Amazon Music listeners will now be able to ask Alexa to make a playlist through their Alexa-enabled devices. Commands like "Alexa, add this to my playlist" and "Alexa, create a new playlist" can be used and users can ask the assistant to add songs to a specific playlist or to create a new playlist from the current song being listened to. Last month, Amazon added support for SMS messaging through Alexa-enabled devices as well as voice control to its Alexa app for Android. It introduced Alexa support to its Amazon Music app for iOS and Android last September and the company says that playlist creation has been one of its most-requested voice features. Prime Music listeners and Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers can use the few feature as can those with the Amazon Music Unlimited Echo Plan, which makes the premium streaming service available on a single Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show or Amazon Tap.

An alleged leak from earlier this week suggested that "Red Dead Redemption 2" will arrive with its own Battle Royale game mode. The CEO of Take-Two Interactive, the company that owns Rockstar and 2K Games, spoke recently during an earnings call and shared his thoughts on the success of Battle Royale in video games. Battle royale-style of competitive online multiplayer has become quite popular recently thanks to the success of games like "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and "Fortnite: Battle Royale." Since that style of online gameplay is popular, it's now expected that other video game companies will simply follow suit. "I would just observe that someone else's success is really interesting and we are obviously informed by what our competitors do. But our goal is to be as innovative as possible," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said (via GameSpot).

Edmonton, Alberta, Feb. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OneSoft Solutions Inc. (the --Company-- or --OneSoft--) (TSX-V:OSS, OTC:OSSIF)--is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, OneBridge Solutions, Inc. (--OneBridge--), has entered into a Pilot Program agreement with another U.S.-based, Fortune 500 natural gas, oil and petrochemical company (the --Client--). The Client, whose operations include natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage, primarily in the United States, will evaluate OneBridge--s Cognitive Integrity ManagementTM (--CIM--) SaaS solution.

Nexus (NXS), announced a partnership with SingularityNET (AGI), to explore the combination of both technologies. SingularityNET is looking to expand horizons creating a decentralized AI network based on blockchain. This new partnership could result in the most secure, scalable and censorship-resistant blockchain AI infrastructure in existence. Nexus and SingularityNET share an aligned mission of creating the safest and most advanced technology. In discussing the future of secure, decentralized AI, SingularityNET Chairman David Hanson commented, "It will become the single most valuable technology in all of history. This is the chance for us to change the world together."

"Automated machine learning promised data scientists a better, faster way to build models, but the reality never matched the hype," said Dr. Ingo Mierswa, founder and president of RapidMiner. When I looked closely at automated machine learning solutions, I found them to be black boxes. They restricted my ability as a data scientist to understand how the models worked and tune them when necessary. We built Auto Model on top of RapidMiner Studio to improve the productivity of data scientists without hiding the ability to understand how and why a model works. As data scientists need to tune or tweak models, they have the full power of the RapidMiner Studio visual workflow designer at their disposal." RapidMiner Auto Model accelerates the entire data science lifecycle using automated machine learning.

Callbridge is the world's most advanced virtual meeting system and includes core features such as YouTube video streaming for Webinars, deep personalization, and an Artificial Intelligence bot named'Cue'. Callbridge is the first meeting platform to provide an AI meeting assistant on a commercial basis. Cisco and Zoom have announced intention to develop AI for meetings but as of this writing have not released a commercial-grade product. "We worked with customer feedback for a long time on this," said Jason Martin, CEO of iotum. "We're glad to be first in market with AI for live meetings. It's interesting to see how a smaller firm like ours approached this challenge. I'm sure Cisco and Zoom will have a different take."