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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

TechCrunch

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

TechCrunch

Hivery has its origins in the pre-pandemic era — the Australia-based company was founded in 2015 — but Hosking argues that many of its technologies have become more relevant over the last several years. chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance. A deep dive into model interpretation as a theoretical concept and a high-level overview of Skater. There is often a need to verify the reasoning of such ML systems to hold algorithms accountable for the decisions predicted.

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The curious case of the disappearing Hydrox cookies

The Hustle

It came back in 2015 thanks to Leaf Brands, a San Diego-based company that specializes in reheated nostalgia. She’s visited multiple grocery stores near her home in the Bronx, followed a Facebook group, and even talked to a manager at a production facility in El Segundo, California, about supply shortages. And it’s a dirty path, I tell you.”

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Off-the-shelf RATs Targeting Pakistan

AlienVault

The corrupted EPS tries to exploit CVE-2015-2545, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code allocated inside an EPS header. The corrupted EPS tries to exploit CVE-2015-2545, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code allocated inside an EPS header. These are served from the compromised domains www.serrurier-secours[.]be

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7 web dev trends on our radar

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

These advances make it possible to quickly deploy off-the-shelf models and research paper models into production environments. Ever since Alex Russell and Frances Berriman first described them in 2015, people have been talking about progressive web apps (PWAs). GraphQL leaves the nest. Adam Neary, Tech Lead at Airbnb.

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Next Generation Storefront for Airlines and Travel Sales Channels: Building a Consistent Shopping Display

Altexsoft

When IATA introduced New Distribution Capability (NDC) in 2015, airlines rejoiced. According to the NGS standard, the existing data products are rated, sorted into drawers, and grouped based on certain attributes, Source: NGS Working Group Kick-Off as of Feb 13th, 2019. Today we explain how NGS works and what you need to adopt it.