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RM plc: Final Results

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

RM plc (‘RM’), a leading global educational technology (‘EdTech’), digital learning and assessment solution provider, reports its full year results for the year ended 30 November 2023 and outlines its new strategic development programme following a fundamental review of the business by its newly established leadership team.

Key Points: 
  • RM plc (‘RM’), a leading global educational technology (‘EdTech’), digital learning and assessment solution provider, reports its full year results for the year ended 30 November 2023 and outlines its new strategic development programme following a fundamental review of the business by its newly established leadership team.
  • Strategic Portfolio Roadmap of RM developed IP, products and solutions delivered to accreditors, educators and directly to learners for adjacent solutions.
  • Continuing operations excludes the results of the RM Integris and RM Finance businesses which were sold on 31 May 2023 and have been included in discontinued operations.
  • Plans to further simplify group, de-leverage, return to growth, and enrich the RM products and solutions to greater profitability.

Syntiant Unveils NDP250 Neural Decision Processor with Next-Gen Core 3 Architecture

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

IRVINE, Calif., April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntiant Corp., a leader in low power edge AI deployment, today introduced its Syntiant® NDP250 Neural Decision Processor™ (NDP), the company’s most powerful chip that delivers 5x the tensor throughput than its previous generation of deep learning hardware.

Key Points: 
  • IRVINE, Calif., April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntiant Corp., a leader in low power edge AI deployment, today introduced its Syntiant® NDP250 Neural Decision Processor™ (NDP), the company’s most powerful chip that delivers 5x the tensor throughput than its previous generation of deep learning hardware.
  • Built using the Syntiant Core 3™ programmable deep learning architecture, the NDP250 is designed for numerous imaging, speech and sensor applications in power-constrained devices, such as person detection, object classification, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text to speech (TTS) and motion tracking, among others.
  • “Our NDP250 builds on two generations of neural network architectures to deliver 30 GOPS, making it our fastest, highest-performing chip yet,” said Kurt Busch, CEO of Syntiant.
  • Syntiant will be demonstrating the NDP250 and various hardware-agnostic deep learning vison models at Embedded World 2024 (Hall 2 – Booth 2-238), April 9-11 in Nuremberg, Germany.

NVIDIA Digital Human Technologies Bring AI Characters to Life

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Monday, March 18, 2024

“NVIDIA offers developers a world-class set of AI-powered technologies for digital human creation,” said John Spitzer, vice president of developer and performance technologies at NVIDIA.

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  • “NVIDIA offers developers a world-class set of AI-powered technologies for digital human creation,” said John Spitzer, vice president of developer and performance technologies at NVIDIA.
  • “These technologies may power the complex animations and conversational speech required to make digital interactions feel real.”
    The digital human technologies suite includes language, speech, animation and graphics powered by AI:
    NVIDIA ACE — technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life with facial animation powered by NVIDIA Audio2Face ™ and speech powered by NVIDIA Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS).
  • To showcase the new capabilities of its digital human technologies, NVIDIA worked across industries with leading developers, such as Hippocratic AI, Inworld AI and UneeQ, on a series of new demonstrations.
  • For GTC, NVIDIA collaborated with Hippocratic AI to extend its solution to use NVIDIA ACE microservices, NVIDIA Audio2Face along with NVIDIA Animation graph and NVIDIA Omniverse™ Streamer Client to show the potential of a generative AI healthcare agent avatar.

Deepgram Launches Aura, a Text-to-Speech API for Real-Time, Conversational Voice AI Agents

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Aura is designed for developers who want to build real-time, conversational voice AI agents that can interact with customers, employees, and other users in a natural and engaging way.

Key Points: 
  • Aura is designed for developers who want to build real-time, conversational voice AI agents that can interact with customers, employees, and other users in a natural and engaging way.
  • With this release, Deepgram offers developers a complete voice AI platform, giving them the essential building blocks they need – from transcription to sentiment analysis to voice synthesis – to build high throughput, real-time AI agents of the future.
  • Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform provider for enterprises and conversational AI leaders.
  • Deepgram is on a mission to unlock the value of voice data and make voice AI accessible and affordable for everyone.

Introducing MFinder: A Real-Time Lost Phone Tracking App

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

MFinder operates exclusively on Android, and the app must be installed in advance as a precautionary measure against mobile phone loss.

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  • MFinder operates exclusively on Android, and the app must be installed in advance as a precautionary measure against mobile phone loss.
  • At this point, the lost mobile phone is switched to "Lost/Locked Mode" to prevent others from using the phone.
  • Each time the location is recorded, the phone's front and rear cameras take photos, making it easier to determine the precise location of the lost phone.
  • Even if the lost phone is in vibration or silent mode, it can emit a siren or text-to-speech (TTS) message to alert nearby people to the loss.

How to Remove Background from Image on Mac with Edimakor AI

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Monday, March 25, 2024

"AI cutout represents just one of the many enhancements we've made to HitPaw Edimakor," said a spokesperson of HitPaw.

Key Points: 
  • "AI cutout represents just one of the many enhancements we've made to HitPaw Edimakor," said a spokesperson of HitPaw.
  • With the new AI Cutout tool, Mac users can effortlessly remove backgrounds from images with unparalleled precision and efficiency.
  • In addition to AI Cutout, HitPaw Edimakor Mac V2.7.0 brings forth a set of other AI-driven functionalities designed to elevate the editing experience.
  • Step 2: Navigate to 'AI Tools' under 'Image' in the right column, and toggle the 'AI Cutout' feature to remove the background from your image with a single click.

RM plc: Extension and amendment of Banking facility

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

RM plc, (“RM”, the “Company”), a leading global educational technology, digital learning and assessment solution provider, announces that it has reached agreement with its lenders to extend its current facility by a further year to the end of July 2026.

Key Points: 
  • RM plc, (“RM”, the “Company”), a leading global educational technology, digital learning and assessment solution provider, announces that it has reached agreement with its lenders to extend its current facility by a further year to the end of July 2026.
  • All other requirements, including the fixed and floating charge and soft liquidity covenants, remain materially unchanged under the update.
  • "I am grateful for the continuing support of our lenders and the extension to our facility and amendment to the covenant tests.
  • RM is focused on delivering a consistently high-quality digital experience, acting as a trusted consultative partner to provide solutions that deliver real impact for learners worldwide.

Miovision acquires V2X leader TTS

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Monday, March 4, 2024

TTS has agreements with 180 agencies, providing insights from 80,000 intersections, to power in-vehicle solutions while providing traffic network data insights to traffic agencies.

Key Points: 
  • TTS has agreements with 180 agencies, providing insights from 80,000 intersections, to power in-vehicle solutions while providing traffic network data insights to traffic agencies.
  • “TTS is the pioneer in V2X services, and over the past 10 years, this team has established relationships with public traffic agencies and traffic control companies around the world to make V2X a reality,” said Miovision CFO Joe Custer.
  • With this acquisition, TTS executives and team members will become Miovision employees responsible for continuing to support and develop TTS’s leading V2X solutions.
  • This acquisition expands Miovision’s presence to 80,000 TTS intersections, bringing the total number of intersections with Miovision solutions to over 170,000.

Sound Group Embraces Generative AI to Unveil New AI-Powered Applications

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

SINGAPORE, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sound Group Inc. (“Sound Group” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SOGP), a global audio-centric social and entertainment company, announced today that it has launched new AI-powered applications for the international market.

Key Points: 
  • SINGAPORE, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sound Group Inc. (“Sound Group” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SOGP), a global audio-centric social and entertainment company, announced today that it has launched new AI-powered applications for the international market.
  • Constantly engaged in in-depth research and exploration of cutting-edge technologies such as AIGC, Sound Group leverages its strengths and expertise in product development and operations to optimize its AI technologies.
  • Looking ahead, Sound Group will continue advancing its research and exploration of AI technology.
  • Sound Group strives to build a varied AI product matrix to drive the Company’s global business development and unlock further commercialization potential.

Preceptis Medical Launches New Website to Support Increased Demand for Hummingbird In-Office Ear Tube Procedure

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Preceptis Medical, an innovative medical technology company dedicated to providing less invasive ear tube options for children, announced today the launch of its new website for the Hummingbird® Tympanostomy Tube System (TTS).

Key Points: 
  • Preceptis Medical, an innovative medical technology company dedicated to providing less invasive ear tube options for children, announced today the launch of its new website for the Hummingbird® Tympanostomy Tube System (TTS).
  • The introduction of this online resource reflects the company’s growth and increased parental and physician demand for the Hummingbird in-office ear tube procedure.
  • “Preceptis Medical’s new website demonstrates our continued commitment to changing the lives of parents and pediatric patients through decreasing costs and eliminating risks associated with traditional ear tube surgery,” commented Steve Anderson , CEO and Co-Founder of Preceptis Medical.
  • To access Preceptis Medical’s new website, or to locate a Hummingbird provider, please visit www.hummingbirdeartubes.com .