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“Our AI Recognises Gestures Even When People Sign Slightly Differently, Achieving About 98% Accuracy” – Aishwarya Karnataki, Glovatrix
– Advertisement – Glovatrix’s AI-powered gloves translate sign language into speech and text, bridging communication gaps for the deaf, starting in workplaces, empowering lives, and shaping the future of accessibility. In an exclusive conversation with EFY’s Nidhi Agarwal, Aishwarya Karnataki, Founder and CEO of Glovatrix, discusses the journey behind the innovation, challenges faced, and the…

GenLayer launches a new method to incentivize people to market your brand using AI and blockchain
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more GenLayer, a startup building decentralized legal infrastructure for AI and machine agents, has launched its first incentivized testnet, dubbed Asimov. This marks the initial rollout of its multi-phase validator onboarding and technology…

“The Goal Was That People Should Not Be Able To Tell If The Food Was Made By A Machine Or By Hand”- Yatin Varachhia, NOSH
– Advertisement – What if one got tired of cooking or bland takeout? A cooking robot came to the rescue, which even had to pass the ‘Mom’ test. Yatin Varachhia from NOSH tells EFY’s Nidhi Agarwal how this Bengaluru startup is redefining home-style meals with smart automation. Yatin Varachhia, Co-Founder and Head of Product, NOSH…

Gaming’s demographic reach: 36% of people ages 80 to 90 play video games | ESA
Every year, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) releases data that impresses us, with 64% of the U.S. population playing games — or 205.1 million gamers, up from 61%, or 196 million, a year ago. But the demographic reach of games is even more crazy, as 36% of the Silent Generation (ages 80 to 90) is…

Microsoft AI Introduces Magentic-UI: An Open-Source Agent Prototype that Works with People to Complete Complex Tasks that Require Multi-Step Planning and Browser Use
Modern web usage spans many digital interactions, from filling out forms and managing accounts to executing data queries and navigating complex dashboards. Despite the web being deeply intertwined with productivity and work processes, many of these actions still demand repetitive human input. This scenario is especially true for environments that require detailed instructions or decisions…

Blizzard’s Overwatch Team Just Unionized: ‘What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People’
The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized. That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn’t have someone else reporting to them. It’s the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since the World of Warcraft team unionized last July. Overwatch 2’s…

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Less than a year after marrying a man she had met at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kat felt tension mounting between them. It was the second marriage for both after marriages of 15-plus years and having kids, and they had pledged to go into it “completely level-headedly,” Kat says, connecting on the need…

Alan Wake 2 Devs Designed Their Multiplayer Shooter For People With Kids And Jobs
Games from Remedy Entertainment—like Alan Wake 2, Control, and Max Payne—tend to be single player, third-person, linear adventures with cutscenes, lots of dialogue, and endings. FBC: Firebreak isn’t like those past games at all. And while it might disappoint some Remedy fans, I’m excited to see the studio doing something so different. Is Alan Wake…

The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe | TechCrunch
Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans of his companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and a crop of fresh-faced hackers and software engineers —…

How trans people use technology to fight back against aggression
“Technology is anything that extends your agency,” posits Allucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone, a foundational trans studies pioneer and digital performance artist included in Trans Technologies, a new book from MIT Press written by trans academic Oliver Haimson. Technology, then, is a near boundless way to intervene in the challenges of every day life, to make…
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