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Balto raises $10 million to analyze call center conversations with AI

Balto, which is developing a conversational AI platform for call centers, today announced the close of a $10 million round. A spokesperson said the capital will enable Balto to triple the size of its go-to-market team while bolstering product development. With customer representatives increasingly required to work from home in Manila, the U.S., and elsewhere, some companies are turning to AI to…
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98point6 nabs $112 million for its AI-powered telemedicine platform

98point6, a telemedicine startup whose platform pairs clinicians with AI to provide text-based care, today closed a $119 million venture funding round. The company says it will use the proceeds to further invest in R&D and expand its practice as employers, health plans, and retail partners increasingly rely on remote care during the pandemic. As with other virtual health-focused platforms…
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GamingNews

Xbox Series X external storage tests: USB HDD vs. SSD vs. NVME

By now, you probably know that to play next-gen Xbox Series X games, you need to store them either on the internal SSD or the official $220 Seagate 1TB expansion card. When it comes to backward compatible games, however, you can load them from an external USB drive. And if…
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Upcoming Honor X-series phone leaks in live images

An unannounced Honor phone bearing the Dingdang codename and DNN-LX9 model number broke cover in a series of live images. Those arrived in our mailbox alongside a few of its specs and even its alleged pricing. The images reveal a trio of available colors – green…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 features trickle down to Galaxy Fold with new update

Samsung has released a new software update for the Galaxy Fold that brings several Galaxy Z Fold2’s features to the first-gen foldable smartphone, which include App Pair, Capture View and Dual Preview. App Pair allows you to open up to three apps together in your preferred split-screen layout via the Edge Panel, which is accessible with a swipe on the side of the screen. The company has…
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Snapchat finally lets all iOS users put music in their snaps

Snap is making good on its word to bring music to Snapchat and setting itself up to compete even more so with TikTok and Instagram. The company announced today that iOS users around the world will be able to include popular music in their snaps. It already brought the…
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Microsoft’s new-look Xbox dashboard is rolling out this week

The October update for Xbox is arriving this week, bringing with it a taste of the next generation. Microsoft has announced that a new dashboard design is rolling out to Xbox consoles as part of the latest update, and it’ll also run on the Xbox Series X and Series S when…
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Watch the Infinix Note 8 launch live here

We are about to witness the debut of yet another interesting phone as Infinix is about to unveil its Note 8. The new smartphone of the Shenzhen-based company will be unveiled at 8 AM PDT (3PM UTC) and we have the livestream embedded below for your perusal. The Infinix Note 8 will arrive as the successor of the Note 7, introduced back in April. This time we’ll see a Helio G80 chipset, a total of…
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