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Minor Hotels lays foundations for a purely digital future

CIO

The hotel sector has been undergoing a digital revolution for years, transforming not only the way hotels operate and interact with their customers, but also with the environment, all without harming their bottom lines. Having to manage that change and train so many people was a huge undertaking,” Marcos says.

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Suspect a hidden camera in your Airbnb or hotel? Here’s how to tell

The Parallax

The problem of surreptitious guest surveillance isn’t limited to home rental organizations, of course: A hotel chain was caught spying on more than 1,600 guests across 10 South Korean cities in March. You have to kick off your own investigation in that house,” she says. What to do next. If you find something, take pictures of it.

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AI-driven voice assistant PolyAI raises $14M round led by Khosla Ventures

TechCrunch

In a statement, Vinod Khosla said: “PolyAI is one of the first AI companies using the newest generation of large pre-trained deep learning models (akin to BERT and GPT-3) in a real-world enterprise product. I wish I could hire more agents like that!”.

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A New Dawn For Search: Why LLMs Reinvigorate The Sleepy Category

Crunchbase News

But modern LLMs pre-trained on the entirety of the internet have new capabilities around language comprehension, information retrieval and basic reasoning. and studied computational neuroscience at Brown University , where he built brain-computer interfaces and trained machine learning algorithms on neural data.

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Hotel Data Management: Solutions and Practices to Turn Information into a Valuable Asset

Altexsoft

Hotel business produces a plethora of data literally every moment. Let’s take a closer look at major data management processes — data collecting, storing, and analyzing — as applied to the hotel domain. Hotel data collection: what and where to look for. Important hotel data sets and overlaps between them.

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Trolls in Chelsea: How to Manage Meanies

Let's Grow Leaders

As I stepped off the train in Manhattan, my phoned beeped of a “tweetup” at the “Black Door.” ” A Tweet Walks into a Bar I got to the hotel and asked the concierge for directions. Being agnostic to trolls, I took a day off work for growth and adventure. He looked at me… “change your [.]

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For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career

TechCrunch

However, Fora has a unique approach compared to some of its competitors: It is actually teaching people to sell travel through training sessions, content authoring tools and negotiated rates at the world’s top hotels. “A Another is Thatch, which took in $3 million in August to enable travel creators to monetize their recommendations.

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