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NCI Information Systems, a leading provider of advanced information technology solutions and professional services to U.S. federal government agencies, announced the launch of the NCI Empower platform to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption in the public sector. "Our philosophy has always been that by Scaling Humans with Artificial Intelligence, or Shai, a workforce can be empowered to reach their full human potential," said Paul A. Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI. "Today, we are excited to take that philosophy one step further with the announcement of our NCI Empower platform."

Dataiku, the leading Enterprise AI and machine learning platform, announced the release of Dataiku 7, bringing deeper integration for technical data professionals to work on machine learning project development and row-level explainability for white-box AI. Additional feature highlights with this latest release include Kubernetes-powered web apps to expand on the capabilities introduced in Dataiku 6 and a machine learning-assisted data labeling plugin. "Collaboration has been at the core of Dataiku since our founding in 2013, and with Dataiku 7, we're continuing to add features that deepen our philosophy to effectively democratize AI in the enterprise," said Dataiku CEO, Florian Douetteau.

Security company is using thermal imaging and AI to identify people with a temperature of 100 degrees. Lisa Falzone, co-founder and CEO of Athena Security, said the platform combines infrared cameras and an algorithm that analyzes body temperature to detect people who have a temperature higher than 100 degrees.

Onfido, the global identity verification and re-authentication provider, announced new accessibility features to its Software Development Kit, focused on enabling people with disability and impairments to connect to more businesses and services remotely with secure digital access. Designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind, the enhancements enable Onfido customers to verify more users during registration, identity verification and re-authentication, improving the digital customer journey with the highest level of fraud protection.

Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has validated an innovative new software approach, leveraging Artificial Intelligence and advanced data analytics, in Nokia's 5G base station manufacturing processes, significantly improving test efficiency. Following the successful validation, Nokia has moved to implement Keysight's advanced AI software into the vendor's 5G manufacturing processes.

Radisys, a global leader of open telecom solutions, announced the deployment of the Radisys Engage portfolio of digital engagement and AI-based real-time media applications on Open Network Edge Services Software, an open source multi-access edge compute platform initiative led by Intel to accelerate innovation and unique experiences on 4G/LTE and 5G networks. Radisys' Engage advanced real-time media applications are available on the OpenNESS platform, enabling new digital experiences.

SECURITI.ai was selected winner of the fifteenth-annual RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest and named "Most Innovative Startup" by a panel of leading venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry veterans. Its PRIVACI.ai solution automates privacy compliance with patent-pending People Data Graphs and robotic automation.

From buzzword to practical application, artificial intelligence quickly has made an impact in cybersecurity - particularly in the security operations center. Bryce Schroeder of ServiceNow projects how AI and automation will continue to influence SOCs - and the analyst's role.

Assembling strong data sets and developing domain expertise are more important than choosing an algorithm. Before selecting an algorithm to analyze data, companies have to know what they want to learn from the data.

Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup that's gobbled up more than three billion of our photos by scraping social media sites and any other publicly accessible nook and cranny it can find, has lost its entire list of clients to hackers - including details about its many law enforcement clients. Clearview, which has sold access to its gargantuan faceprint database to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, first came to the public's attention in January when the New York Times ran a front-page article suggesting that the "Secretive company [] might end privacy as we know it."