AI & RoboticsNews

Celonis raises $290 million for AI-powered process mining at $2.5 billion valuation

November 21, 2019
Celonis today closed a $290 million series C round for its solution that uses AI-driven data and process mining to make companies more efficient. This round raised the company’s valuation to $2.5 billion. Today’s news follows a $50 million funding round in June 2018 that was led by Accel and 83North and raised Celonis’ valuation to $1 billion. Celonis sits on top of existing enterprise IT…
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MobileNews

Apple has a plan to ensure iOS 13's buggy launch doesn't happen again

November 21, 2019
Apple is reportedly changing the way it tests new versions of iOS and iPadOS. According to Bloomberg, the company will now work on test versions, or “daily builds,” with incomplete and bug-riddled features turned off by default. Internal testers will be able to turn them back on, however, through a new section of the settings app called Flags. In theory, this will help the company to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant uses ‘Duplex on the Web’ to buy your movie tickets

November 21, 2019
Since last year, you’ve been able to purchase movie tickets using your voice with Google Assistant and Fandango. Today, Google is enhancing that capability to make it more versatile. If you own an Android phone, simply tell the digital helper that you want seats to a specific movie or search for showtimes using the Google app. Assistant will then take care of working through any website…
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ComputersNews

Trump ‘opens’ Texas Apple plant that’s built Mac Pros since 2013

November 21, 2019
As planned, today Donald Trump took a tour of an Apple manufacturing facility in Texas alongside CEO Tim Cook. While impeachment hearings continued in D.C., the president tweeted that “Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America.” While Apple did claim in September that exemptions from tariffs the Trump Administration…
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