SANTA CLARA l MUMBAI, April 27, 2018: Digitate, a software unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), today announced that its cognitive automation solution, ignio, won an award for the first use of machine learning within the workload automation (WLA) analytics industry from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Connecting organizations across a common automation language, WLA builds skills that reduce errors, speed development and remove highly repetitive work, which increases productivity and reliability in defining automated tasks. As WLA continues to evolve, digitization increases and IT accelerates the integration of new technologies such as machine learning. In its quarterly WLA Radar Summary Report, EMA recognized ignio for Batch, underscoring how it keeps business processes running smoothly, reducing the time required to plan and make changes with impact analysis in minutes. Workload automation for batch jobs execution is critical to the proper operations for enterprises that have large numbers of transactions within banking and financial services, retail and manufacturing industries. For services running over 100,000 batch jobs on a daily basis, any failure could lead to business downtime the next day.

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In the movies, Captain America is a white guy. But what if he were played by Korean-American actor John Cho? This was tricky to imagine a few months ago, as movie studios remain allergic to casting Asian actors in starring roles. Now, thanks to a new collection of "deepfakes," seeing is believing as a new project illustrates what Asian-Americans might actually look like as the heroes of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Digital strategist William Yu is the creator of #SeeAsAmStar (short for "See Asian-American Stars"), a collection of videos and GIFs published on May 4. The title is the goal, as Yu tells Inverse he wants to "break that notion and assert that we can play anything."

Indie game To The Moon developed a cult following since its 2011 release, with the heartbreaking RPG earning kudos for its plot and memorable soundtrack. It's about two doctors who try to help a man (kind of) fulfill his dying wish of going to the moon -- by going into his mind and creating artificial memories. A sequel, Finding Paradise, followed last December, but the saga doesn't end there: creator Kan Gao says there's a To The Moon animated film adaptation in the works. Gao did not reveal who was financing the movie, other than to say it has Chinese funding and there's a "pretty significant" budget in place -- one that's higher than that of animated hit Your Name. The bulk of the production will be carried out in Japan, Gao says, with major Japanese companies involved.

Blacksburg, VA – B. Aditya Prakash, an assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering is being celebrated as one of the 10 …

Get shown news tailored to your preferences with the Google News app, now available for iPhones and iPads. The new Google News app that was first teased at the company's I/O developer conference last week has just rolled out to iOS; it's also already available for Android and the Web in 127 countries. The world wide web launched nearly 30 years ago, so the amount of content available to searchers is massive; in fact there are over 2 billion websites, not to mention social media posts and video footage. A blog post from the company describes how AI is a way for them to "find the best of human intelligence – the great reporting done by journalists around the globe"; using AI to help searchers sift through the haystack and find the right needle. The Google News app is divided into parts.

Together, they suggest a shared cultural understanding of a camera: a classic point-and-shoot. But the cameras we encounter every day bear little resemblance--in form or function--to this vestigial object. New capabilities in software, new hardware formats and imaging technologies, and emerging user behaviors around image creation are radically reshaping the object we know of as the "camera" into new categories. Perhaps the most impactful influence on the camera is being brought about by computer vision: empowering cameras to not only capture various kinds of images but to also parse visual information--effectively, to understand the world. Software trained on vast datasets of labeled images can recognize things like vehicles, dogs, cats, and people, along with facial features, emotions, and second-order information like movement vectors and gaze direction from raw images and videos.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest buzzword in HR software-speak, and for good reason: It's real and it works. AI is a type of technology automation that leverages machine learning and Big Data to actually learn how to better perform the tasks it is automating. Technology that can make calculated decisions based on logic and reasoning and digitally communicate accordingly? Will AI replace the recruiter? That is a very bold assumption. Did technology replace the need for airline pilots? No, but pilot engagement and how they operate their aircraft has changed radically due to innovations in the technology used to fly planes.

Baidu (BIDU) stock sold off Friday as analysts pondered whether its push into artificial intelligence will stall in the wake of its chief operating officer stepping down. COO Qi Lu, a former Microsoft (MSFT) executive, headed Baidu's artificial intelligence research. Baidu is just one stock to watch for artificial intelligence developments. The China-based internet search leader fell 7.4% to 259 on the stock market today, tumbling out of a buy zone. Credit Suisse downgraded Baidu to neutral on the management shake-up, announced late Thursday.

Banks Must Invest in Reskilling Their Workforces to Seize AI-driven Growth Opportunities, Accenture Report Finds Stronger commitment to AI could boost revenues 34 percent and employment 14 percent by 2022 NEW YORK; May 2, 2018 – Although bank leaders recognize that intelligent technologies are reshaping the core banking process and can transform customer experiences, few plan to significantly increase investments in reskilling their workforces to enable these technologies in the near-term, according to a report by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Based on two surveys – one of 100 banking executives and another of 1,300 non-executive bank employees – the report, "Future Workforce Survey - Banking: Realizing the Full Value of AI," estimates that if banks invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and human-machine collaboration at the same rate as top-performing companies do, they could boost revenues by 34 percent and raise employment levels 14 percent by 2022. "As AI becomes more nuanced, its role in banks is moving beyond automation to elevating human capabilities," said Alan McIntyre, a senior managing director at Accenture and head of the company's Banking practice. "To benefit from the potential of AI, banks need to implement'applied intelligence' – combining technology and human ingenuity – across all areas of their core business. To achieve this, they will need commitment from the highest levels of leadership and an understanding that this evolution will require a dramatic change in their workforce."