After an election last November, Myanmar’s army chief had faced imminent retirement, as well as the sidelining of the army’s favoured political party and foreign calls for him to be tried for war crimes against Rohingya Muslims. On Monday, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was in full charge of Myanmar after a coup toppled elected…
Avaya has extended the capabilities of its contact center platforms to include an enhanced version of Google Cloud Dialogflow CX that can be employed to create virtual agents infused with AI capabilities that can verbally interact with customers. Residing on the Contact Center AI (CCAI) cloud service provided by Google, the conversational AI capabilities being…
Exabeam has become the latest vendor to join a security ecosystem that is starting to emerge around the Snowflake data services platform residing on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The provider of a security event information management (SIEM) platform revealed this week that it will now work with customers that have made Snowflake their…
Tech giants and their AI-powered digital platforms and solutions can affect the destinies of world leaders, nation states, multinational corporations, global stock market, and individuals alike. The creators of major digital platforms as well as the designers and developers of ubiquitous AI systems treat individuals as mere users, customers, or data points, oftentimes completely ignoring…
The Labor Party will continue its revival on Monday, when 62 candidates compete in primaries that will be held online and in nine polling stations across the country.The polls will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and results will be available hours later. Labor leader Merav Michaeli said that by holding primaries, Labor was…
Following reports of large numbers of guests converging on the Belz hassidic center Thursday night, the police said they found no evidence that coronavirus violations were violated. Followers of the Belz Hassidic movement attend a wedding in Jerusalem. (photo credit: REUTERS) Despite what appeared to be hundreds of hassidim gathering at – and entering –…
The images of soldiers wearing uniforms and patrolling inside Arab-Israeli villages might seem harsh to some people, but the assistance of Home Front Command to Arab society during the coronavirus crisis has been received with an open hand, OC Northern District Brig.-Col. Guy Berger said Sunday.Since the Second Intifada, in incidents that were dubbed as the…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed a 73-second campaign video on his Facebook page last week that seemed, well, not very Netanyahu-like.“We drained the swamps together, as one people,” Netanyahu declared, as footage of the early pioneers flashed in the background.” We got excited together on the 29th of November [the UN partition vote in 1947],…
Plans for a large-scale garbage incineration plant at the Good Samaritan junction, past Ma’aleh Adumim on the road to the Dead Sea have local residents up in arms.They claim that the facility will harm air quality and clog the roads with hundreds of trucks from around the country bringing garbage to the site.They also claim…
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