New Uber feature uses machine learning to sort business and personal rides

New Uber feature uses machine learning to sort business and personal rides

Uber announced a new program called Profile Recommendations that takes advantage of machine intelligence to reduce user error when switching between personal and business accounts. It’s not unusual for a person to have both types of accounts. When you’re out and about, it’s easy to forget to switch between them when appropriate. Uber wants to […]

Communisis joins forces with Striata to create a new secure omni-channel communication platform

Communisis joins forces with Striata to create a new secure omni-channel communication platform

Customer communications specialist Communisis Group has signed a partnership deal with digital communication and document security firm Striata to offer an end to end, omni-channel customer communication solution. The solution enabled by the partnership is designed primarily for regulated industries like Banking, Financial Services and Healthcare. It helps accelerate digital transformation by solving the ‘go-paperless’ […]

Jaguar Land Rover Comes Up Trumps with New Card Game App

Jaguar Land Rover Comes Up Trumps with New Card Game App

Jaguar Land Rover introduced an exclusive digital Top Trumps App for Goodwood Festival of Speed visitors. The app was released in June 2018 and launched officially across iOS & Android for JLR fans attending the festival. Created by Spark44, the digital version of the game featured vehicles displayed on the Jaguar Land Rover stand, including […]

Amazon launches Auto SDK to bring Alexa to more cars

Amazon launches Auto SDK to bring Alexa to more cars

Amazon announced an open source release of the Alexa Automotive Core (AAC) SDK, or Auto SDK, to help automakers integrate Alexa voice control into cars and their infotainment systems, screens often used for navigation, media, or climate control. The software development kit is free for download on GitHub and is optimised for bringing Alexa to […]

Magic Leap One AR Headset Finally Arrives — But Not for Everyone

Magic Leap One AR Headset Finally Arrives — But Not for Everyone

Magic Leap, the much-buzzed-about and secretive augmented reality firm, has finally released its headset to developers, although the AR device will only be available in six US cities. Magic Leap One Creator Edition costs $2,295 (£1,781) and is a standalone AR system that incorporates a wearable computer and head-mounted display. The headset is currently only […]

CCI and SpotX ink deal to provide Japanese broadcasters with programmatic solutions

CCI and SpotX ink deal to provide Japanese broadcasters with programmatic solutions

Cyber Communications Inc. (CCI) and SpotX have inked a deal which will see the adtech platform bring its programmatic solutions to television networks in Japan. The deal will see the country’s main broadcasters like Nippon Television Network Corporation, TV Asahi Corporation, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Fuji Television Network and TXN Network adopt SpotX’s solutions for video […]