Voximplant’s service to build voice and video comms into apps comes out of beta

Companies that help businesses integrate voice and video communication into their apps and services have proliferated in recent years, with services such as Twilio and Diagflow, an NLP platform developed by Google, proliferating. Voximplant has raised $10.1M so far to

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US military has approved religious exemptions to vaccine mandate for 15 service members out of 16,000 requests

The Marine Corps has approved religious exemptions for six Marines and the Air Force has approved nine requests for exemptions. The Navy has given conditional approval for a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, but that member would have to

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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

RedRoute, a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at

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LittleBigTrouble: Sony kills multiple games’ online service without notice

Enlarge / Almost every LittleBigPlanet release just lost its online hub. After a year marked by targeted hacks and unexplained downtime, the online service for four of Sony’s LittleBigPlanet games—and arguably the heart of their “play.create.share” mantra—is no more. Announced

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Locast’s free TV service is in peril as Big 4 networks win copyright ruling

The major broadcast networks have won a big copyright ruling against Locast, a nonprofit organization that provides online access to broadcast TV stations. Although it’s a partial summary judgment, the ruling by a federal judge rejects Locast’s primary defense against

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