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Liopa - The AI startup that's innovating visual speech recognition Anyone who uses speech recognition technology, such as Siri or Alexa, for example, knows that it can be difficult to get the thing to understand what you are saying sometimes. Particularly if you are in a noisy environment. If other people around you are also talking, it may have a hard time identifying what is you and what isn&rs...
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The lowdown on Frequency, the Dublin-based startup that's on a mission to innovate internet based communication systems for the aviation industry... Delays cost airlines around $25 billion every year - just over $1 million per aircraft. This is the problem that 3 Aer Lingus pilots founded Dublin-based Frequency to combine their 40 years of flight experience in order to solve. They say ...
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The lowdown on the innovative and versatile floating platforms from ScaffFloat... Building and repair work can be dangerous. This can often be needed at great heights or in other unsafe environments, like in choppy water. As well as the dangers of trying to carry out construction work or welding bridge struts, for example, there is the question of how to get there, with all of the equipment,...
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Innovative Startups in Paris... While there are now a multitude of startup hubs across France, Paris remains the epicentre of French ingenuity. Parisian startups are taking advantage of the great infrastructure, funding and inherent appeal of the city, with tech startups experiencing a particular boom. Here are eight of the most impressive up-and-coming startups in Paris, and why they deserve you...
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Innovation to help the sustainability of commercial fishing... Everyone is aware of overfishing as a big problem, with fish being caught at a rate that they can’t replenish their numbers. A lesser known issue around fishing is called bycatch, where one in every five fish caught is not a fish that can be sold and used, either because it’s not legal, it’s endangered, or it&rs...
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United Utilities, the North West England water firm has recently launched its third Innovation Lab - the successful accelerator programme which helps innovative businesses grow and develop.  In collaboration with corporate innovation specialist, L Marks, the United Utilities’ Innovation Lab will once again give innovative businesses a unique opportunity to collaborate with the water co...
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We Build Bots! The Cardiff-based startup that's creating innovative AI powered automation solutions for Local Governments and Public Sector organisations  At one point or another, most of us will have contacted a business’s customer service and found ourselves answered on the first touch by a chatbot. If we are looking for simple information on policies, dates and times, and small issu...
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Retail tech innovation in a world still dealing with COVID-19, thanks to Ksubaka With the easing of lockdown restrictions, it is easy to fool ourselves into thinking that COVID-19 is no longer a problem. Even while our logical minds tell us that it hasn’t magically vanished, being allowed to go shopping, visit family, and even sit in a pub again has the dangerous effect of allowing us ...
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AI innovation for wholesale and distribution businesses. The lowdown on Bubo AI, the Yorkshire-based startup that's using AI to create value-based pricing for wholesale and distribution businesses. Anyone who has offered services or sold products in practically any capacity has probably known the struggle of deciding what to charge. Most of us want to make a profit, obviously, without hurtin...
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The insurance that's powered by the cycling community...  No one can surely be a big fan of insurance companies? They are generally thought of the world over as the soulless entities you must pledge money to in return for the vague idea that if anything should happen, you might possibly be somewhat protected from having to pay even more for repairs... But insurance does work, and ...
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