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Provation serves thousands of hospitals, surgical facilities, anesthesia groups, and medical offices, including 43 of the top 50 U.S. hospitals for gastroenterology (GI) and GI surgery.

Iterative Scopes is a gastrointestinal data company, working to deliver AI toolkits to the practice of gastroenterology by providing real-time, actionable insights to providers and the life sciences.

Minneapolis, MN and Cambridge, MA, March 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Provation and Iterative Scopes announced today an exclusive partnership, bringing together the premier clinical productivity and gastroenterology (GI) documentation software provider with a leading startup in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for precision GI.

Through this partnership, the two companies are focused on delivering AI-based solutions to healthcare providers and life science researchers, including AI-assisted diagnostic tools, procedure documentation, and clinical trial recruitment.

One of the first initiatives under the partnership will be an AI-based patient recruiting solution for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. This new recruitment method is expected to accelerate the time needed to bring new therapies to market, bypassing many of the problems pharmaceutical companies currently face.

Our partnership with Iterative Scopes is a logical one. Provation is the market leader in GI documentation, with more than 3,500 customer facilities including 80% of the top academic and large health systems. Our IBD data can enable Iterative Scopes to facilitate clinical trial recruitment and deliver clinical endpoint evaluations to their pharmaceutical partners, said Craig Moriarty, Provation Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product. In addition, Iterative Scopes can bring its extensive AI toolkit to our GI documentation solutions, including Provation Apex.

The integration of these technology platforms will enable more efficient and accurate documentation of gastroenterology procedures benefiting physicians and the patients they serve.

I am thrilled to partner with Provation, to accelerate the adoption of AI into gastroenterology and to be able to learn from the deep expertise and trusted position Provation holds. We look forward to unlocking tremendous value for patients, physicians and life science partners. said Jonathan Ng, CEO, Iterative Scopes.

About Iterative Scopes

Iterative Scopes is a gastrointestinal data company, working to deliver AI toolkits to the practice of gastroenterology by providing real-time, actionable insights to providers and the life sciences. Spun out of MIT in 2017, the team has since raised $14M in funding and is based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit iterativescopes.com.

About Provation

Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions. Our purpose is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. We provide innovative solutions in clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting and billing. Celebrating 25 years, Provation serves thousands of hospitals, surgical facilities, anesthesia groups, and medical offices, including 43 of the top 50 U.S. hospitals for gastroenterology (GI) and GI surgery. Our comprehensive portfolio spans the entire patient procedure, from pre-op through post-op recovery and follow-up, with solutions for physician and nursing documentation (Provation MD, Provation Apex, MD-Reports and Provation MultiCaregiver), patient engagement, surgical care coordination, quality reporting, and billing capture (Provation SurgicalValet), order set and care plan management (Provation Order Set Advisor and Provation Care Plans), and EHR embedded clinical documentation (Provation Clinic Note). Provation is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. For more information about our solutions, visit provationmedical.com.

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Barely five months after last year's event, Ignite 2021 was in some ways a timely opportunity for Microsoft to reconnect with customers in the throes of their digital transformation efforts. As the pace of digitization continues to accelerate in businesses, the event offered IT leaders announcements in several areas of interest: Teams collaboration, mixed reality computing, zero-trust security and developer productivity, to name a few.

However, a standout area this year was at the intersection of several of Microsoft's most important strategic domains: hybrid cloud and edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and industry clouds. Each of these areas are growing in influence in their own right, but it's becoming more and more important to watch where Microsoft's products cross paths. As the firm continues to strengthen the ties between its enormous flywheel of solutions, it's at these intersections where you can get a good glimpse of Microsoft's strategic direction and longer-term differentiation in the cloud market.

Let's take a closer look at this in the context of Ignite's highlights and what they mean for Microsoft.

The opening keynotes at Ignite 2021 balanced big-picture vision in areas such as cloud computing, mixed reality collaboration and AI at scale, with lauding the resilience of IT professionals and developers over the past year in helping their firms transform at an unprecedented rate.

Noting Microsoft's own, decade-long journey in cloud technologies, CEO Satya Nadella outlined five elements (see images below) that will enable cloud innovation over the next 10 years, driving Microsoft's overall cloud strategy and road map. The company's role, Nadella said, is to help customers build " tech intensity" an ethos driving companies to adopt technology, break down silos, change culture and build up their digital capabilities to enable their own digital transformations.

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The first element, "ubiquitous, decentralized computing," is arguably Microsoft's greatest area of focus right now. This essentially calls out the new era unfolding for more distributed cloud computing, coming off the current "peak centralization" of the cloudand is a reincarnation of theintelligent cloud and intelligent edge concept Microsoft first introduced at Build 2017.

The hybrid cloud, and specifically Azure Arc, has become one of the core vehicles of Microsoft's cloud strategy over the past year and focus of several of the leading announcements at Ignite 2021 as a result. The firm announced the general availability of Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, allowing organizations to manage and govern Kubernetes clusters deployed on-premises, in the public cloud or at the network edge.

The flexibility that Arc-enabled Kubernetes provides will be welcome news for customers, especially as the platform matures. In the next few years, we expect over 40% of large firms will continue to run more than 40% of their IT workloads on-premises, with 46% of companies adopting multi-cloud strategies, according to CCS Insight's latest survey data.

Microsoft also announced a major move at the intersection of hybrid cloud and AI. Azure Arc-enabled machine learning allows customers to build machine learning models and run inference where data lives, whether in on-premises data centers, on dedicated AI hardware, in edge environments or in multiple public cloud environments, for example.

Customers are looking for more flexibility in the environments in which they run their machine learning applications, and want the option to use their existing hardware investments. This is where Azure Arc is squarely positioned. According to my firms "Senior Leadership IT Investment Survey, 2020," for example, close to a quarter of organizations said that the ability to support a hybrid IT or on-premises environment was the top consideration for their investment in machine learning, and 55% said they wished to pursue a multi-cloud approach for AI.

With the exception of IBM, which launched Watson Anywhere in 2019, Microsoft leads other players in this trend, giving it a unique window of opportunity against its cloud rivals. Google Cloud has announced a few hybrid AI capabilities this year, such as Speech-to-Text On-Prem, building on the 2020 release of BigQuery Omni, its hybrid, multi-cloud analytics solution. But so far, Google has fallen short within its core platform. Similarly, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has yet to announce compatibility between Amazon SageMaker and AWS Outposts, although I expect it will do so imminently.

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Another big move targeted the intersection of AI, the internet of things and edge computing, strengthening Microsoft's play in industrial settings.

The Azure Percept hardware and services platform aims to solve the challenges of using AI on low-power, connected devices in factories and warehouses, spanning device management, machine learning model development and analytics. Microsoft released two hardware development kits as part of the solution,pre-integrated with Azure IoT Hub for secure deployment and management, as well as with Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning and Azure Video Analytics.

The move is part of a bigger push by Microsoft to infuse AI everywhere: in its products, in its research and in its operational practices. Together, these give customers options to forge their own paths with the technology, whether it's a classical big data and machine learning path through enhancements to Azure Machine Learning, a modern AI approach through its large-scale models through Project Turing and its supercomputing resources in Azure, or with edge solutions for industries such as Azure Percept. This flexibility and variety of options is quickly becoming a hallmark of Microsoft's differentiation and strategy in AI.

Above all though, Ignite 2021 also showcased Microsoft's growing commitment to industry verticals. It's here that we see several products meet, spanning several of Microsofts clouds including Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.

In the days before the event, the firm introduced three new industry cloud offerings, adding Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing to its existing solutions for healthcare and retail. The launch is its response to customers pushing Microsoft harder to integrate and align innovation between its entire portfolio with industry outcomes and data protection standards.

Unlike other industry clouds, Microsoft's approach combines its infrastructure services, software-as-a-service applications for individual sectors, co-development initiatives with industry customers and a partner ecosystem to address specific business processes and industry challenges. Although it's early days in the shift to industry clouds, Microsoft's solution-centric and integrated approach to its cloud offerings will be a big part of how it plans to differentiate against other industry offerings.

CCS Insight has predicted for the past several years that 2021 will be the year of vertical clouds, as cloud providers ramp up activities to make their largely horizontal platforms more relevant to various sectors. In the past 12 months, we've seen IBM launch its Cloud for Financial Services, AWS deepen its capabilities in government, telecommunication and industrial sectors, and Google Cloud announce a focus on several industries for its AI solutions. In my view, Microsoft's announcements in this area leapfrog many of these efforts at this early stage of the game.

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Microsoft's relentless focus on achieving greater synergy and strengthening the connective tissue between its growing portfolio of products is perhaps its greatest strength in the market right now given the improved differentiation, product "stickiness" and customer value this strategy affords it. The area is also becoming an important source of innovation as well, especially at the intersection of some of its most important domains such as hybrid cloud and edge computing, AI and industry clouds as well as other areas including Teams and security, all of which came alive at Ignite 2021.

But as Microsoft continues down the right strategic paths in 2021, a new economic reality faces swathes of companies, putting pressure on IT budgets around the globe. How Microsoft complements this innovation with improvements to its commercial and licensing models to help customers reduce financial risk will be a vital new area on which it must now focus. Areas such as new bundling options across its clouds, more dedicated SMB offerings and above all, as it pursues industry solutions, a deeper focus on outcome-based pricing models should all come into play.

With many businesses across the globe struggling, helping customers find new ways to finance and consume its products will be just as important moving forward as the integration and intersecting areas of its portfolio are to Microsoft's strategy today.

Nicholas McQuire is vice president, enterprise research and artificial intelligence research at CCS Insight. He has over 15 years' experience in enterprise technology advisory services. He leads CCS Insight research in cloud computing, machine learning and the digital workplace.

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Smart speakers are known for playing your favorite music, telling you the weather or reminding you when to get up and take a walk. They also could be an important tool in cardiology.

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a form of contentless monitoring, allowing smart speakers to identity and monitor individual heartbeats using sonar technology. Machine learning (ML) makes this technology possible. The UW researchers published the findings on March 9 in the journal Communications Biology.

Co-senior author Shyam Gollakota, a UW associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, says its not detecting heartbeats that is a surprising smart speaker skill but the fact that it can detect irregular heartbeats.

Regular heartbeats are easy enough to detect even if the signal is small because you can look for a periodic pattern in the data, Gollakota said in a statement. But irregular heartbeats are really challenging because there is no such pattern. I wasnt sure that it would be possible to detect them, so I was pleasantly surprised that our algorithms could identify irregular heartbeats during tests with cardiac patients.

The algorithms can detect motion of the chest wall and separate signals from breathing motions and ambient noise, according to the study.

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Specifically, the speaker emits an inaudible high-frequency sound that gets reflected back by the user's chest and received by the microphone array, lead author Anran Wang, a doctoral student in UWs Allen School, told Fierce Healthcare. We designed a self-supervised learning algorithm to analyze the signal and obtain the tiny skin vibration caused by the heartbeat.

Some study participants wore a Polar H10 Sensor System that outputs heart rate and intervals of R waves, called RR intervals. Others wore a CorSense monitor on their fingertip. They transmitted data to their smartphone using Bluetooth. Researchers compared results from the smart speaker to that of an ECG monitor. They found the difference in data to be not medically relevant, according to The Washington Post.

If a smart speaker could offer an inexpensive test for people, it could help diagnose cardiac arrhythmias, which cause strokes, according to co-senior authorArun Sridhar, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at the UW School of Medicine.

Availability of a low-cost test that can be performed frequently and at the convenience of home can be a game-changer for certain patients in terms of early diagnosis and management, Sridhar said in a statement.

Researchers used ML to take signals coming from a smart speakers multiple microphones to spot an "elusive heartbeat signal, according to the researchers. Just as a smart speaker like Alexa can spot a persons voice even if a TV is playing or several people are in the room, the smart speaker can also pick out a heartbeat among other sounds.

The self-supervised learning algorithm learns the spatial locations of the heartbeat by their characteristics meanwhile minimizing otherinterferences,such as environmental noise and respiratory motion, Wang said. It then focuses on the heartbeats and derives the beat-to-beat intervals.

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The news follows a proof-of-concept tool UW researchers introduced last year that uses a smart speaker like Google Home or Alexa or a smartphone to detect if someone is gasping for air, which is known as an agonal breathing event. The app can then call 911.

In the future, medical professionals could use smart speakers to monitor heart rhythms as part of telehealth systems and to track people that require a contactless test due to skin sensitivity. The technology is also valuable for people in quarantine like during a health crisis such as COVID-19.

Doctors and nurses can set up screening procedures using smart speakers in an empty room without worrying about spreading the diseases, Wang said.

Telehealth and remote monitoring have grown significantly during the COVID health crisis, and companies such as Tyto Care have received new investments to help them ramp up remote monitoring systems.

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Now our techniques enable heart rhythms detection using smart speakers, which is a step forward to achieve telemedicine, Wang said. It can potentially benefit millions of peoplewho live far from medical services or do not have the necessary resources to check their health conditions to detect potential cardiac diseases at home.

Smart speakers like Alexa have received attention from the healthcare industry before. Last year health insurer Anthem launched an enhanced version of its Alexa skill across 13 commercial insurance markets. The skill lets customers get in touch with an Anthem customer service agent or order prescription refills. People with any Alexa device or the Alexa mobile app can use the skill.

Tech giant Google also is leveraging its smart devices as health monitoring tools. The company just announced its updated Nest Hub smart home device has a sleep tracking feature. The smart display uses radar-based sleep tracking in addition to an algorithm for cough and snore detection.

Going forward, research with smart speakers will draw on work that allows the sensors to detect sleep apnea and cardiac arrest.

We believe more and more medical applications can be developed in the future, Wang said.

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Sleep is asfoundational to hotel guest satisfaction as it is to people's health and wellness, yet there has previously been very little a hotelier can offer to actively improve sleep for their guests.

As consumers continue to prioritize their health and well-being, Bryte provides an opportunity for hotels to differentiate their wellness offering by delivering more restorative sleep as the centerpiece of their in-room wellness portfolio.

Luxury destinations including Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Carillon Miami Wellness Resort, Cavallo Point San Francisco, The London West Hollywood, Park Terrace Hotel on Bryant Park, and Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa have partnered with Bryte to introduce The Restorative Bed, and develop enhanced sleep programming for their guests, including sleep suites and health retreats.

The Restorative Bed by Bryte was developed with leading sleep scientists, including Dr. Matthew Walker, bestselling author of Why We Sleep and founder of the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley, to deliver the quality of sleep the human body needs to restore critical infrastructures of physical, mental and emotional health.

"Hotels strive to personalize the guest experience and provide a service level beyond expectations. This is exactly what the Bryte Restorative Bed offers, by transforming the overlooked hotel bed into an in-room wellness experience," stated Francisco Levine, a former hotelier who now leads Bryte's hospitality business.

'The strong reception from our hotel partners confirms our vision: a personalized, restorative sleep experience will inevitably become the new industry standard for luxury hotels and wellness resorts. It elevates the whole guest experience and continues the relationship over many visits, as travelers can save their profile, login to any bed on a future visit to retrieve their preferences and effectively "travel with their bed."'

Sleep as It Should BeFrom the first night guests can expect to fall asleep faster, sleep longer and more soundly and wake naturally feeling refreshed and restored. Over subsequent nights the bed continues to fine tune settings such as temperature and firmness to each individual, leading to significant gains in all measures of restorative sleep, including body-restorative deep sleep and mind-restorative REM sleep. Travelers can also create a portable profile that saves their preferences and continues this optimization journey over future stays at any hotel with a Restorative Bed.

"As the hotel industry emerges from the pandemic downturn and people seek wellness as part of travel, The Restorative Bed is a key differentiator of the luxury hotel guest experience." said Ely Tsern, CEO of Bryte, who co-founded the company in 2016 and was pivotal in merging sleep science and technology to create its signature product.

"Wellness hospitality is clearly moving beyond the spa and there is no better way to deliver wellness at scale than through every guest room. We are honored to partner with so many prestigious hotels as the centerpiece of their in-room wellness portfolio. "

The Restorative BedThe Restorative Bed is purpose-built to actively improve restorative sleep. An embedded sensory network detects biometrics such as heart rate and breathing patterns to identify when a sleeper enters the first stage of sleep, triggering cooling features to lower the body's core temperature and gently lull sleepers into the critical stages of deep sleep.

Meanwhile, 100 computer-controlled air cushions within The Restorative Bed alleviates pressure points by continually recalibrating the support a body needs, encouraging longer and more restorative sleep. Bryte's technology further leads sleepers naturally out of sleep with warming temperatures and lighting that mimics the glow of sunrise, while also offering the option of movement to gently nudge and softly awaken sleepers at just the right time.

Additional information about Bryte can be found at Bryte.com. Media assets can be found at Bryte.com/press.

About BryteFounded in 2016 by Silicon Valley veteran John Tompane, Ely Tsern and Jonathan Farringdon, Bryte is the leading restorative sleep technology platform powered by AI. Bryte's turn-key hardware, software and services platform is available for licensing to select mattress manufacturing partners. The Restorative Bed is now available to consumers through Bryte.com and select hotel and resort partners. For more information, visit Bryte.com.

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Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), one of China's largest multinational technology companies, has completed a fundraising round on its artificial intelligence (AI) chip, Kunlun, that would value the business at $2 billion, a source told Reuters. The round, which generated an undisclosed amount of funding, was led by CITIC Private Equity Funds Management (CPE), and is said to include IDG Capital, Legend Capital and Oriza Hua.

The Kunlun chip has been praised for its development of autonomous vehicles and is used to improve mobile phone camera quality, speech and voice recognition. With AI capabilities, the device can perform offline and still perform system duties like driving, without having to reach out to the cloud for transportation data. The imitation-learning chip is preferred by some users because their data stays on their device rather than being transmitted over the cloud.

Following the report on Monday, Baidu announced it has received qualifications from the Cangzhou traffic authorities in China to operate 35 different commercialized autonomous driving operations and 10 vehicles for driverless testing.

This guidance from Cangzhou will allow Baidu Apollo to conduct the first open-road, driverless testing within the city. The program has received permission previously from Chinese cities Changsha and Beijing, as well as from California in 2020.

The Baidu Apollo fleet consists of 500 vehicles, with open-road tests conducted in 30 cities around the world. The company's Robotaxi service has carried 210,000 passengers and is available in Beijing, Changsha and Cangzhou, with plans to move into 30 more cities over the next three years.

Earlier in March, Baidu announced it had won a bid to build a 30-kilometer smart highway in the Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park. This 5G intelligent driving zone would promote the city of Chengdu's commitment to bring together smart transportation, industrial Internet and intelligent health care services to become the benchmark for smart city developments.

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Will the US catch up to China's AI dominance?

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) recently issued a 756-page report to the United States government warning that "America is not prepared to defend or compete in the AI era." The commission stated that the government was not ready to confront the potential of AI technology and sophisticated cyber weapons China could create.

The report described areas of development necessary to make progress comparable to China's achievements. The NSCAI suggested ways to recruit digital talent into the government and boost domestic microelectronic manufacturing, diminishing U.S. reliance on foreign-made electronics. The committee urged the U.S. government to pay close attention to foreign investment in American technology and to double the country's AI research and development budget to $32 billion a year.

This AI gap did not happen by chance; it was a goal the Chinese government set out to achieve.

In 2017, China announced its ambition to develop the skills and educational resources to accomplish these breakthroughs by 2025, with a desire to be a global leader in AI by 2030.

China's AI power does not just come from Baidu. Other technology leaders have contributed to China's dominance. In 2020, Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), the Chinese leader in e-commerce sales at $72 billion, partnered with autonomous taxi companies. ByteDance, the TikTok creator, and Tencent (HKG:0700), the creator of WeChat, use AI-powered platforms to integrate products and services into the user's daily life.

"We are at the beginning of the beginning of this new era of competition," the NSCAI report explained. "The United States should invest what it takes to maintain its innovation leadership, to responsibly use AI to defend free people and free societies, and to advance the frontiers of science for the benefit of all humanity. AI is going to reorganize the world. America must lead the change."

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The studio will support Industry 4.0 use cases for everything from autonomous vehicles to collaborative robots and 3D augmented reality.

The opening of the IBM Industry 4.0 Studio in Singapore.

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A new IBM Industry 4.0 Studio opened Tuesday in Singapore, and it combines 5G connectivity with artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud and edge computing capabilities for 5G trials for the enterprise.

The Industry 4.0 Studio will develop, test and benchmark actual Industry 4.0 use cases for autonomous guide vehicles, collaborative robots, 3D augmented reality and real-time AI visual and acoustic recognition that can use 5G for real-time analysis of production line defects, according to a press release.

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"The opening of the studio in Singapore is an important milestone in applying 5G-enabled mobile and network solutions with Industry 4.0 capabilities to help transform manufacturing. Mobile and 5G capabilities like these are empowering workers and changing the way factories and warehouses operate, bringing new efficiency and productivity to operations. Samsung is pleased to be collaborating with IBM, IMDA, and M1 in this groundbreaking project to help make 5G a reality for customers," said KC Choi, Samsung Electronics executive vice president and global head of B2B business, mobile communications business, in a press release.

M1 is one of the three major full service communications providers in Singapore.

"5G is a potential game changer for Industry 4.0. It is the critical connectivity layer that can enable smart manufacturing. I would like to congratulate IBM for the opening of its 5G-enabled Industry 4.0 studio here in Singapore. It is important for Singapore to be the place where innovative 5G solutions can be developed and deployed globally. A strong 5G ecosystem will provide more opportunities for businesses and our people. We will work with industry to forge ahead with 5G, as we architect Singapore's digital future," said Lew Chuen Hong, chief executive of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), which is a statutory board of the Singapore government, in a press release.

There are several focus areas for testing that will be part of the studio, according to the release:

At the studio, Samsung's standalone 5G network solutions and mobile devices pair with IBM's hybrid cloud, edge computing and AI technologies, as well as M1's engineering and network services experience. The use cases are built on Red OpenShift and they employ IBM's AI solutions for visual and acoustic analysis and augmented reality technologies, according to the release.

"5G presents an enormous opportunity for enterprises to drive new value and transform their operations to harness the next era of industrial connectivity. This project builds on IBM's longstanding strategic partnership with Samsung, and a shared vision with M1 and IMDA, to help businesses tap into emerging hybrid cloud and AI technologies that will define their future success," said Brenda Harvey, general manager of IBM APAC, in a press release.

The studio is hosting Singapore's first 5G Industry 4.0 trial by testing real-world applications that can be used in manufacturing, while measuring and optimizing the performance of enterprise 5G for industrial use.

At least half of Singapore is expected to have full-fledged 5G standalone capability by the end of 2022.

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New Relic, Inc., the observability company, is offering new capabilities in New Relic Applied Intelligence to help engineers detect, understand, and resolve incidents faster than before.

This latest update to New Relic One allows engineers to uncover anomalies automatically, now enabled by default and available for free to all users.

Engineers can now also see the probable root cause of every incident from any data source automatically, with guidance on suggested responders on their team who may be best equipped to revolve each issue.

Also available in public beta, engineers can quickly spot patterns and outliers in all of their log data using machine learning (ML) to dramatically reduce troubleshooting time.

AIOps has promised engineers the ability to harness AI and machine learning to predict possible issues, determine root causes, and intelligently drive automation to resolve them, said Bill Staples, president and chief product officer at New Relic. Despite the hype, many DevOps and SRE teams have struggled to achieve the value of AIOps, as steep learning curves, long implementation and training times, prohibitive pricing, and lack of confidence in AI and machine learning have stood in the way. With our next-gen AIOps capabilities launched today, New Relic is solving these challenges, putting the power of observability in the hands of every engineer to finally deliver the promised value of AIOps to everyone.

The modern capabilities now available in New Relic Applied Intelligence are designed to deliver on the promise of AIOps with speed of deployment, out of the box integrations, ease of use, and simplicity to help engineers quickly and easily:

New Relics new AIOps capabilities are generally available today to all New Relic Applied Intelligence customers.

Anomaly detection is available now and enabled for all customers at no additional charge, including New Relic free tier users. Log Patterns is now available in public beta.

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Lionel Messi may be one of the most famous people on the planet, but now fans can send their friends a personalised message from the Barcelona star. Well, sort of.

With legions of current and former footballers now making money selling individual videos on Cameo along with other sports stars and celebrities (with "Inbetweeners" star James Buckley topping the earnings chart in 2020 with an estimated $415,000), many of us are well used to having famous faces addressing us directly on our phone screens.

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But still, the sight of six-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi looking up at you and saying "hey" is an arresting one, although all is not what it seems.

In partnership with potato chip brand Lay's, the "Messi Messages" service allows fans to create and share their very own message from the Barcelona superstar -- or rather a "face-mapped" version of him.

After entering a few pertinent details, the message is produced using advanced lip-synching technology from AI and facial mapping specialists Synthesia make it appear as though Messi is speaking directly to the recipient.

The resulting clip sees the Barca forward offer a personal greeting in a synthesised voice (which can be relayed in one of 10 languages) before inviting everybody to watch "the big match" together.

"Hey [insert name here], what's up? [Insert name] has invited us to watch the big game on [insert day]. I hope I can make it. If I can't be there, enjoy the game. Ah, and don't forget to bring the snacks. Ciao!"

You'd think, being a multi-millionaire with an endorsement deal from a potato-chip manufacturer, Messi could offer to provide the snacks himself. But, as he can't guarantee he'll definitely make the watch party, it's probably best to make other arrangements anyway.

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While the technology is undoubtedly impressive, the end result is a video that sits within "uncanny valley," where the effect is not quite realistic enough to be satisfying and can actually be a little unsettling.

And there is no scope at all to truly personalise the message beyond the limited options to select names and days. And even then, the list of names to choose from is simultaneously both arbitrary and carefully selected (there is no option to send a message to "Cristiano," for example).

Which all makes sense, given the Internet's fondness for abusing any invitation to contribute online to basically anything (Boaty McBoatface, anyone?).

Still, you can't help but wonder what fans would like to hear Messi's AI alter ego say if they had the power:

"Hey Cristiano, what's up? UEFA has invited us to watch the Champions League quarterfinals together. I hope we can make it. Well, I know we can, because neither of us will be playing. Ciao!"

"Hey Xavi, what's up? Did you hear I equalled your old Barcelona appearance record last night? 767 not out, and only 576 goals more than you managed. Ciao!"

"Hey Pep, what's up? Sure I'd love to come join you at the Etihad next season. I hope I can make it. If I can't be there, there's every chance I'll be in MLS instead. Ciao!"

"Hey Barca fans, what's up? Sure I'd love to sign a giant contract that keeps me at the club until the day I retire. I hope I can find my pen. If I can't be there, use the money to buy an entire new team. Ciao!"

"Hey Kylian, what's up? Of course I'd love to see you at Barca next year. I hope it can happen. I might not be there, but you have fun carrying the whole club for the next two decades. Ciao!"

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"Rising demand for consumer-centric services and tools in Europe's healthcare system is leading to the development of new business models," said Chandni Mathur, Healthcare & Life Sciences Senior Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "Adoption of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, blockchain, the internet of medical things (IoMT), wearables, and cloud computing is expected to disrupt the telehealth market. 5G will feature as a key enabler to boost the adoption and effective utilization of these disruptive technologies."

Mathur added: "From a product type perspective, virtual visits will lead the overall telehealth market, registering growth at an astounding CAGR of 41.2% over the forecast period, followed by remote patient monitoring (RPM) at 20.4%. Further, mhealth and personal emergency response systems (PERS) will also contribute significantly to the market, garnering revenue at 27.5% and 7.7% CAGR, respectively."

Telehealth equipment makers, service providers, and technology enablers have an uphill task catering to the pandemic-driven sudden demand, which will require business model revision across the telehealth ecosystem. As a result, telehealth market participants have the following growth opportunities:

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Innovative Business Models Powering the Telehealth Market in Europe

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AI and Cloud to Empower the European Telehealth Market Securing Efficient Access to Essential Healthcare Services - PRNewswire

Since last January, when we launched our AI for Health program, weve been dedicated to using AI and data science to help improve the health of people and communities worldwide. As we reflect on how the world has changed this past year due to the pandemic, we want to take a moment to shed light on the great work our grantee partners are doing to tackle some of the most difficult health challenges.

Our AI for Health programs commitment is to empower grantees. To date, we have awarded over 180 grants in four areas of focus, which include accelerating medical research, increasing global health insights, addressing health equity and building research capabilities. Access to Microsofts technology such as Azure High Performance Computing, Azure Machine Learning, Power BI, Return to School Power Platform solution and the SmartNoise differential privacy platform have accelerated the progress made in grantee research.

You can see some of our grantee projects below as well as on the AI for Health website:

Covid-19 research

Shortly after the launch of Microsoft AI for Health, Covid-19 struck, leading to a dramatic shift in the world as we knew it. Recognizing the global impact of this disease, the AI for Health program focus shifted to helping those on the front lines of Covid-19 research including a focus on:

Grantees to support this research include a range of disciplines including researchers, academia, policymakers and nonprofits leaders. Weve awarded more than 150 grants toward their endeavors. Below are the latest grantees whose work is using AI and Azure High-Performance computing in partnership with our AI for Health data scientists and MSR researchers:

Also, for the past 12 months, weve created several interactive visualizations to provide transparency into Covid-19 trends globally as part of our pledge to support policymakers and the public.

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The latest is a Vaccine Tracking dashboard that tracks toward the U.S. federal goal of100 million vaccine doses in 100 days and allows for comparisons between U.S. states and countries. The dashboards standardized look at the vaccination progress can be explored, synced, saved and shared openly. This dashboard, produced in partnership with the Brown University School of Public Health, pulls from publicly available data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to gather state-level figures on how vaccinations are progressing. Globally, the vaccination data is pulled from Our World in Data. This work builds on other dashboards weve created forCovid-19 cases, infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths.

Our grantees inspire and motivate us to continue our commitment and support against some of the worlds most complex health problems. We are humbled by their incredible efforts and honored to be part of their journey.

Tags: AI, AI for Health, artificial intelligence, Azure, COVID-19, Kinect, Microsoft Philanthropies, Open Data, vaccine dashboard, Washington state

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AI for Health a year of innovations from grantees across the globe - Microsoft On the Issues - Microsoft