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The perfect partner for robotic milking – IAM Network

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Brian McClure, Churchview Farm with Matrix Animal Health agent Robert ShannonBrian, alongside his father David, run a herd of 100 cows, milked through two Lely robots. The second robot having only recently been installed is allowing Brian to increase his cow numbers further. Cows are housed all year round and three cuts of quality silage are made every year.Silage quality is paramount to the McClure's philosophy of maintaining healthy, efficient and productive cows averaging 10500lts.Matrix Animal Health sales agent for Co.Antrim, Robert Shannon chatted to Brian this week to see how he was getting on with the Healthy Udder Boluses."We were having quite a few problems keeping cases of clinical mastitis under control and had been using an awful lot of antibiotics with varying success," said Brian."This lead to the financial implications of lots of wasted milk, as well as a constant fear of contaminating the milk. " I have also been very concerned over the potential for antibiotics to get into the food chain and believe that farmers as food producers play a major role in the fight to combat this."I was talking to a friend who recommended I would try the'Healthy Udder …


6 Ways that Subject Line Writing Has Changed

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Have your subject line writing strategies and tactics kept up with the times? Check and see if you're accounting for these six changes in subject line writing, going from the oldest to the newest trend: Everyone knows that subject lines are super important. That's why they're the most tested email element. However, preview text is also really important, since it's the third piece of envelope content, along with the sender name and subject line. But it gets far less attention and is less than half as likely as subject lines to be regularly A/B tested.


Silencing Malware with AI

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Stuart McClure is on a personal mission. After more than two decades in the anti-malware industry, he firmly believes that ninety percent of malware attacks today can be prevented by not clicking on this, not clicking on that, and not opening that attachment either. While he's not the first nor alone in suggesting the user bears at least some responsibility, the anti-malware industry up until now hasn't yet produced an effective alternative to signature-based solutions based on known attacks. McClure's company, Cylance, thinks it has the answer with its first-generation AI-driven anti-malware products for both enterprises and consumers. "Why couldn't we simply train a computer to think like a cybersecurity professional to know what to do and not to do based on the characteristics and features of known attacks?" asked McClure.


AI can reduce workplace bias, says CEO of leading HR group

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Cylance raises $120 million to grow its AI-powered cybersecurity platform globally

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Cylance, a cybersecurity startup that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to combat online attacks, has raised $120 million in a series E round of funding led by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, with participation from other unnamed investors. Founded in 2012 by Stuart McClure, an entrepreneur who sold an Internet security firm to McAfee for $86 million in 2004, Cylance is an endpoint protection platform designed to thwart malware, ransomware, and other forms of advanced threats using AI. Its suite of algorithm-based security protocols essentially inspect networks for weaknesses and shuts them down if any are detected. Cylance claims in excess of 4,000 customers, and said that it has revenues of $130 million for the 2018 fiscal year, representing a year-on-year growth of 90 percent. Prior to now, Cylance had raised around $177 million, including a $100 million tranche two years ago, and with another $120 million in the bank it said that it plans to double down on its global expansion efforts, with a particular focus on Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, and extend its product range.


Cylance raises $120 million to grow its AI-powered cybersecurity platform globally

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Cylance, a cybersecurity startup that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to combat online attacks, has raised $120 million in a series E round of funding led by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, with participation from other unnamed investors. Founded in 2012 by Stuart McClure, an entrepreneur who sold an Internet security firm to McAfee for $86 million in 2004, Cylance is an endpoint protection platform designed to thwart malware, ransomware, and other forms of advanced threats using AI. Its suite of algorithm-based security protocols essentially inspect networks for weaknesses and shuts them down if any are detected. Cylance claims in excess of 4,000 customers, and said that it has revenues of $130 million for the 2018 fiscal year, representing a year-on-year growth of 90 percent. Prior to now, Cylance had raised around $177 million, including a $100 million tranche two years ago, and with another $120 million in the bank it said that it plans to double down on its global expansion efforts, with a particular focus on Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, and extend its product range.


This online retailer uses AI for product categorisation - here's how

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Whilst the use of machine learning in marketing seems to be skyrocketing, there's a dearth of coverage in the media that tries to get to the bottom of this technology in terms a layman can understand. I am irrefutably a layman, and have written a little on the topic of AI for Econsultancy, often specifically about ecommerce. In this blog post, we'll be talking to the founder of LoveTheSales.com, Before we start, let me point out that this year's Festival of Marketing has a whole stage (one of 12) dedicated to AI. View the agenda and get your tickets here. Machine learning is used to classify these products, tagging them to enable the website to sort them into the right categories and to show a user products they may be interested in.


Rise of the Machines: Should we fear for our jobs or embrace artificial intelligence? - The Economic Times

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NEW YORK: While the rise in machine learning technology may be making people's lives smarter and easier, it has conversely given rise to fear and anxiety among people about losing jobs to artificial intelligence (AI) devices, a study has showed. "Technophobes" -- persons who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don't understand -- are three times more likely to be fearful of losing their jobs to technology when compared to others and nearly three times more likely to fear not having enough money in the future, the study has shown. This is a real concern among a substantial portion of the population. They are not simply a subgroup of generally fearful people," said researcher Paul McClure, a sociologist in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, in Texas, US. "People in certain occupations may legitimately fear losing their jobs to robots and software that can work for cheaper and for longer hours than any human," McClure added, in the paper published in the journal Social Science Computer Review. Technophobes also have 95 per cent greater odds of not being able to stop or control worrying when compared to others, and 76 per cent greater odds of feeling as if something awful might happen and are also more likely to suffer anxiety-related mental health issues.


Fear of losing jobs to machines growing with rise of artificial intelligence: Study

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While the rise in machine learning technology may be making people's lives smarter and easier, it has conversely given rise to fear and anxiety among people about losing jobs to artificial intelligence (AI) devices, a study has showed. "Technophobes" -- persons who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don't understand -- are three times more likely to be fearful of losing their jobs to technology when compared to others and nearly three times more likely to fear not having enough money in the future, the study has shown. This is a real concern among a substantial portion of the population. They are not simply a subgroup of generally fearful people," said researcher Paul McClure, a sociologist in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, in Texas, US. "People in certain occupations may legitimately fear losing their jobs to robots and software that can work for cheaper and for longer hours than any human," McClure added, in the paper published in the journal Social Science Computer Review. Technophobes also have 95 per cent greater odds of not being able to stop or control worrying when compared to others, and 76 per cent greater odds of feeling as if something awful might happen and are also more likely to suffer anxiety-related mental health issues.


AI Is Critical To The Future Of Cybersecurity, But Not A Silver Bullet

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The future of cybersecurity is a preventative approach -- identifying and thwarting threats before they are perpetrated. And to achieve preventative cyber protection, AI will be critical. "Imagine you wake up to find a burglar in your daughter's room. Would you rather know immediately that the burglar is there and then go stop him, or would you rather know that he is going to break in before he does it, and prevent the attack from happening in the first place?" That was the question asked by Stuart McClure, CEO of cybersecurity company Cylance, speaking at CB Insights' Innovation Summit.