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Forbes: How AI is Impacting DevOps

How AI is Impacting DevOps

Dan Garfield of Codefresh discusses some unique aspects of DevOps that make it uniquely adaptable to AI augmentation. There’s a huge opportunity for teams to dramatically improve their software delivery processes by leveraging AI to help them generate the automation that they're going to be using.

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Homeland Security Today: Using Decision Intelligence to Combat Smuggling Networks

Using Decision Intelligence to Combat Smuggling Networks

Cognyte offers its perspective on using decision intelligence to combat smuggling: Smuggling – the illicit movement of goods into or out of a country – is a major challenge for customs administrations and tax authorities alike. Smuggling plays a key role in the cross-border flow of drugs, fake medicine, weapons, and more, and it’s an insidious threat to fair trade, with both immediate and long-lasting implications for local economies and residents.

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Spiceworks: Using Decision Intelligence to Investigate Money Laundering

Using Decision Intelligence to Investigate Money Laundering

The modern global financial system is a money launderer’s dream and a financial investigator’s nightmare. Decision intelligence, digitization and technology can improve outcomes for AML investigations by empowering financial investigators in identifying and prosecuting money laundering networks, shares Rosa van Dam, decision intelligence platform product manager, Cognyte.

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insideBIGDATA: Harness Unstructured Data with AI to Improve Investigative Intelligence

Harness Unstructured Data with AI to Improve Investigative Intelligence 

In this special guest feature, Jordan Dimitrov, Product Manager, Unstructured Data Analytics, Cognyte, addresses the importance of unstructured data, why AI is an invaluable tool and how to move beyond legacy approaches to data management.

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WCO News: Moving from risk management to decision intelligence: what it means and where to start

Moving from risk management to decision intelligence: what it means and where to start

Tom Saltsberg, Product Manager at Cognyte, discusses the delicate balance between facilitating legitimate trade and combatting illicit trade. This raises numerous challenges for Customs administrations, and to overcome them, Customs authorities need to work smarter and more efficiently.

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IDC Retail Insights: What We Learned About Retail Experiential Operations at the 2023 NRF Big Show

What We Learned About Retail Experiential Operations at the 2023 NRF Big Show

Analysts Leslie Hand and Anne Parris discuss their findings from NRF 23: "GK Software, Hitachi, and Shekel teamed up to create an autonomous checkout solution using the customer's own device to create a virtual shopping basket that connects to a combination of cameras and scales to keep track of what the shopper buys."

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Retail Leader Pro: Tech Improvements Key to Consumer Happiness, CX Research Shows

Tech Improvements Key to Consumer Happiness, CX Research Shows

New research from Shekel Scales showed that 90% of consumers believe technology will significantly improve the overall shopping experience. While nearly 60% of consumers wanted technology that speeds up and simplifies the self-checkout process, more than 30% of respondents expressed a desire for technology that helps them get in and out of the store as fast and as easily as possible.

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RIS: Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways

Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways

A consumer shopping survey by Shekel Scales, advanced weighing technology, found that 90% of consumers believe technology will significantly improve the overall shopping experience, particularly tech that simplifies the self-checkout process, according to 60% of consumers. 

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The Shelby Report: Consumers Believe Technology Will Improve Shopping Experience

Consumers Believe Technology Will Improve Shopping Experience

A consumer shopping survey sponsored by Shekel Scales revealed that 90 percent of consumers believe technology will improve the overall shopping experience. While nearly 60 percent of consumers cited technology that speeds and simplifies the self-checkout process, more than 30 percent of respondents expressed a desire for technology that helps them get in and out of the store as fast and as easily as possible.

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GCN: Why big data isn’t enough for law enforcement: Investigating with critical thinking

Why big data isn’t enough for law enforcement: Investigating with critical thinking

Cognyte discusses combining decision intelligence methodologies with big data, AI and machine learning to help analysts make sense of data and analytics insights.

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Homeland Security Today: Machine Learning and Data Fusion Enable Improved Decision Intelligence to Screen Asylum-Seekers and Refugees

Machine Learning and Data Fusion Enable Improved Decision Intelligence to Screen Asylum-Seekers and Refugees

Data-driven decisions take some of the guesswork and bias out of immigration management processes and help to promote overall fairness. According to Cognyte, machine learning (ML) and data fusion technologies form the bedrock of this approach, with their combined ability to leverage big data and advanced analytics to manage the risk posed by potential asylum-seekers and refugees. This includes closer scrutiny of criminal and terrorist elements, with more efficient threat assessment and risk scoring – leading to improved prioritization.

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SpiceWorks: Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Require Greater Multi-Sector Cooperation & Improved Decision Intelligence Capabilities

Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Require Greater Multi-Sector Cooperation & Improved Decision Intelligence Capabilities

Across the globe, money laundering remains a key challenge to address organized crime. This is exacerbated by cryptocurrency, blockchain and the anonymity they afford bad actors who are trying to obscure the source of illicit funds. Rosa van Dam, decision intelligence platform product manager at Cognyte, sheds light on the importance of better multi-sector cooperation and decision intelligence capabilities to improve anti-money laundering investigations.

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insideBIGDATA: Data Fusion and Analytics for Chief Investigators: Survey Report, August 2022

Data Fusion and Analytics for Chief Investigators: Survey Report, August 2022

Our friends over at Cognyte have a second survey on data fusion and analytics – this time for chief investigators. In their last survey, the 2022 IT leaders in the Data Fusion/Analytics Domain, the company spoke to CIOs and IT executives about their challenges and investment priorities for data fusion.

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Analytics Insight: Investigating Future Security Threats with AI, ML and Data Fusion

Investigating Future Security Threats with AI, ML and Data Fusion

Cognyte discusses the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, which have been transformative for security organizations. With their arrival, organizations are no longer limited to reactively investigating and resolving criminal acts that have already been committed. AI and ML – complemented by sophisticated data fusion and analytics capabilities – have introduced a new era of proactive, predictive threat assessment that can help us identify and mitigate threats before they occur.

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Hackernoon: Tackling a New Human-Centric AI Paradigm: Startup Interview with AIR Cofounders

Tackling a New Human-Centric AI Paradigm: Startup Interview with AIR Cofounders

AIR is a Canadian startup focusing on a new AI training approach that allows the tackling of challenges that are too complex for traditional machine learning methods. Hackernoon interviews the company on its mission and purpose as part of the Hakernoon Start Up of the Year Series.

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Military Embedded Services: The future of human-AI systems is already here – it’s just not evenly architected

The future of human-AI systems is already here – it’s just not evenly architected

The operational structure, strategies, technologies, and ethical concerns of the future remain unknowable, but they will undoubtedly need to include both human users and AI agents, and both need to be trained. Introducing a modular and flexible architectural layer that remains consistent – from military simulation and training requirements to real-life operational needs – decisively answers these challenges

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VentureBeat: AI Redefined commits to better training models under new CEO

AI Redefined commits to better training models under new CEO

AI Redefined (AIR) is the developer behind an open source Cogment framework that makes it simpler for humans to train virtual agents created using AI models. Today the startup named G. Craig Vachon to be its CEO in place of Dorien Kieken, who will now assume the role of president.

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Vending Times: Shekel Brainweigh Teams with Parlevel Systems, Imbera on Smart Cooler

Shekel Brainweigh Teams with Parlevel Systems, Imbera on Smart Cooler

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, is teaming up with Parlevel Systems, a software provider, and Imbera, a provider of commercial refrigeration equipment, to introduce hubz, a cooler that offers a secure way to sell any product, anywhere and anytime, according to a press release.

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Kiosk Marketplace: French retailer Monoprix teams with Shekel Brainweigh on cashierless store

French retailer Monoprix teams with Shekel Brainweigh on cashierless store

Monoprix S.A., a Clichy, France-based retailer, has teamed with Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., an Israel-based weighing technology provider, to introduce an AI-powered autonomous shopping system on a self-service retail concept to offer 24/7 service.

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Retail Technology Innovation Hub: Groupe Casino enlists Shekel Brainweigh for automated store pilot

Groupe Casino enlists Shekel Brainweigh for automated store pilot

French retailer Groupe Casino is working with Shekel Brainweigh on an automated store situated at its Monoprix HQ in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris.

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Kiosk Marketplace: Shekel Brainweigh integrates Nayax payment solutions for micro market coolers

Shekel Brainweigh integrates Nayax payment solutions for micro market coolers

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, has integrated Nayax payment solutions as a standard payment method for its Innovendi machines.

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Forbes: Fake Video Election? Deepfake Videos ‘Grew 20X’ Since 2019

Fake Video Election? Deepfake Videos ‘Grew 20X’ Since 2019

Deepfake videos are proliferating on social media and the internet, and most of them are focused on politics and the coming U.S. election, according to a study by an AI-powered “synthetic media” hunting startup CREOpoint.

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VentureBeat: Synthetic media targets politics ahead of U.S. presidential election

Synthetic media targets politics ahead of U.S. presidential election

As the U.S. presidential election season swings into high gear, the amount of synthetic media targeting politicians is soaring. According to a new report from brand protection startup Creopoint, the number of manipulated videos shared online grew 20 times over the past year.

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International Business Times: 5 Tech Trends Expected To Shape Retail Through The End Of The Year As Result Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

5 Tech Trends Expected To Shape Retail Through The End Of The Year As Result Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

Technology firm Shekel Brainweigh said 87% of respondents to its global consumer survey indicated they would choose stores with self-checkout over those with only cashier lines.

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Mashable: As protests spread, misinformation in Facebook Groups tears small towns apart

As protests spread, misinformation in Facebook Groups tears small towns apart

Jean-Claude Goldenstein, founder and CEO of CREOPoint, discusses how the spread of fake news about the protests is reminiscent of what happened with coronavirus misinformation.

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Kiosk Marketplace: How self-service equipment helps define the 'new normal' against COVID-19

How self-service equipment helps define the 'new normal' against COVID-19

Shekel, a provider of AI-powered advanced weighing solutions, has introduced Fast Track, a touchless machine-learning, cloudless self-checkout solution for supermarkets. Shekel's Fast Track eliminates the need for consumers to enter product codes via touchscreens by automatically recognizing produce, bakery and specialty items.

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Chain Drug Review: Shekel's Fast Track answers urgent call for touchless self-checkout

Shekel's Fast Track answers urgent call for touchless self-checkout

With social distancing driving an urgent consumer demand for touchless grocery self-checkout, Shekel, the leader in AI-powered advanced weighing solutions, brings to market the Fast Track – the first touchless machine-learning, cloudless self-checkout solution enabler.

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MarketWatch: Bubble-wrap maker Sealed Air and Simplehuman CEOs are prepping for a touchless future after coronavirus pandemic

Bubble-wrap maker Sealed Air and Simplehuman CEOs are prepping for a touchless future after coronavirus pandemic

A study by Shekel Brainweigh, an Israeli company specializing in advanced weighing systems, shows that 87% of U.S. consumers would prefer a shopping experience with more touchless and self-checkout options. Nearly three-quarters of shoppers use self-checkout frequently.

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Retail Customer Experience: The consumer after COVID-19

The consumer after COVID-19

Nearly two-thirds of consumers are changing their grocery shopping habits in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent consumer survey from Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technologies.

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MediaPost: 87% Prefer Stores with Touchless Checkout During COVID-19: Study

87% Prefer Stores with Touchless Checkout During COVID-19: Study

Most shoppers would prefer to shop in stores with touchless self-checkout options, according to a new survey by Shekel.

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Kiosk Marketplace: Hitachi, Shekel Brainweigh team on autonomous shopping solution

Hitachi, Shekel Brainweigh team on autonomous shopping solution

Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a provider of weighing technology, and Hitachi today unveiled Capsule, a framework for an autonomous micro-market solution based on Hitachi's LiDAR sensors and Shekel's Product Aware Shelves, according to a press release.

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MediaPost: Shoppers Want Better Self-Checkout Tech

Shoppers Want Better Self-Checkout Tech

Nearly all (89%) consumers say they want self-checkout machines that can automatically identify items, according to the study, comprising a survey of 270 U.S. adults conducted by Shekel Brainweigh.

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VMblog: DEI 2020 Predictions: Data, Workflows, and AI

DEI 2020 Predictions: Data, Workflows, and AI

Last year, I made predictions about gigabit WAN connectivity and non-public data distribution workflows. In 2020, enterprises should consider workflow diversification and AI practicalities.

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EE Times: Industry 4.0 Drives New Perspective on PCB Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 Drives New Perspective on PCB Manufacturing

“PCB users and AI systems want to know everything they can about every PCB coming off the production line. New advanced traceability techniques associated with process control and visualization capabilities can tell them a lot."

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EDN: PCB factories embrace AI

PCB factories embrace AI

The evolution of PCBs from large and antiquated “printed wiring boards” to today’s fine-line designs on high-density interconnect PCBs, IC substrates and more, has been matched by manufacturing processes that have evolved from manual assembly to highly automated production. As manufacturing technology further develops, processes become more complex and more sophisticated, including the ability to inspect and then shape defects that would once have resulted in scrapped panels. A significant opportunity is now emerging for the PCB manufacturing industry to capitalize on artificial intelligence (AI) and optimize production processes and, ultimately, the entire PCB manufacturing facility.