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Lofree Unveils the Lofree Flow, the Smoothest Mechanical Keyboard

Lofree Unveils the Lofree Flow, the Smoothest Mechanical Keyboard

Lofree Unveils the Lofree Flow, the Smoothest Mechanical KeyboardThe World’s First Low-Profile Keyboard With Kailh Full POM Switch & Gasket Mount

Lofree, the renowned innovator in keyboard design, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated launch of its latest masterpiece, the Lofree Flow. As the world’s first low-profile keyboard featuring Kailh Full POM Switch and Gasket Mount design, the Lofree Flow revolutionizes the typing experience with its exceptional smoothness and advanced features. The official launch of this groundbreaking keyboard is set to take place May 30 on Kickstarter.

The Lofree Flow sets a new standard in keyboard technology, combining the highly acclaimed Kailh Full POM Switches and innovative Gasket Mount design. The Kailh Full POM Switches offer an unprecedented level of smoothness, allowing users to enjoy a truly seamless and responsive typing experience. Coupled with the Gasket Mount design, which reduces vibrations and enhances stability, the Lofree Flow ensures every keystroke is precise, satisfying, and effortless.

Designed to impress both in performance and aesthetics, the Lofree Flow features an all-aluminum design that exudes elegance and durability. Its slim and sleek profile adds a touch of sophistication to any workspace while the ultra-thin construction enhances portability without compromising on quality. The keyboard also offers the flexibility of wireless or wired connectivity options, making it compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems.

Versatility is at the core of the Lofree Flow’s design. The hot-swappable functionality allows users to easily change switches without soldering, enabling customization and experimentation with different switch types to suit individual preferences. The RGB sidelits illuminate the keyboard with a captivating array of colors, creating a visually stunning ambiance that can be personalized to match any mood or style.

“We are proud to introduce the Lofree Flow, the smoothest mechanical keyboard designed to elevate the typing experience to a whole new level,” said Ken Jiang, spokesperson for Lofree. “With its unique combination of Kailh Full POM Switches, Gasket Mount design, and exquisite craftsmanship, the Lofree Flow offers an ever-smoother feel over time, ensuring our users enjoy an unparalleled typing experience that enhances their productivity and creativity.”

The Lofree Flow will be available on Kickstarter starting on May 30 at 9 a.m. ET. Early backers will have the opportunity to secure their unit and enjoy exclusive promotional offers. For more information and to experience the next generation of typing, visit https://bit.ly/3oBBNpc.

About Lofree:

Lofree is a lifestyle brand created by a group of brainy designers. Our founder and designer Tim Chu has 20 years of experience designing more than 150 electronic products in the keyboard and related consumer electronics businesses. We clearly understand the group of people who value their own loved space. Lofree develops interesting and professional products to inspire like-minded people to build their styled 2m² space at fingertips, chasing away the boring life. After the great popularity of mechanical keyboard series of DOT typewriter, TOUCH PBT, and 1% Transparent, FLOW will lead you to a new state of typing experience.

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Thematic’s Leading AI-Driven Platform Incorporates Generative AI, Embracing Large Language Models for Customer Feedback Analysis

Thematic’s Leading AI-Driven Platform Incorporates Generative AI, Embracing Large Language Models for Customer Feedback Analysis

Thematic’s Leading AI-Driven Platform Incorporates Generative AI, Embracing Large Language Models for Customer Feedback AnalysisGlobal feedback analytics leader levels up its own proprietary AI algorithm with the latest large language models to deliver the most thorough, transparent customer feedback insights for clients.

Thematic, a unique AI-powered platform for analyzing customer feedback, announces Generative AI integration, expanding their analytics toolkit to incorporate large language models that offer more thorough and transparent insights.

Founded in 2017, Thematic employs its proprietary AI algorithm to evaluate customer feedback analysis collected through sources such as customer satisfaction surveys, reviews, social media, and contact center logs. By aggregating insights from these sources in one place, clients can perceive the needs of their customers, without the need for training a language model or manual coding, in order to make informed decisions based on insights to improve products and customer experiences.

Thematic is the brainchild of co-founders Alyona Medelyan and Nathan Holmberg, both experts in computer science, big data and business. Medelyan, CEO of Thematic, holds a doctorate in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, and her peer-reviewed research articles have been cited by more than 3,000 academics.  

Holmberg, Thematic’s Chief Technical Officer, was VP of Engineering at Entopix and Chief Architect and Lead Developer at Serato Inc. He has a degree in computer science and international business and as a developer and software engineer focused on computer graphics, interprocess communications and live-performance entertainment software, specializing in concurrency and real-time performance considerations. 

The idea of Thematic came out of Medelyan’s work in NLP consulting. Three companies recruited her for help with the same problem: understanding what drove their NPS performance. Medelyan collaborated with the companies to develop an NLP algorithm that harnessed unstructured customer feedback from surveys, analyzed the textual data, identified themes and tied them to metrics to explain what drove the responses.

Thematic now incorporates Generative AI, and their first feature using this technology, Theme Summarizer, can provide an instant understanding of any theme in a client’s customer data. Advances in Generative AI using large language models (LLMs) allow Thematic to create easy-to-read summaries of each theme.  

“Thematic has the unique ability to distill the common themes hidden in the ocean of text coming through the many, many avenues where customers give their opinions of products and services,” Medelyan said. “Simply put, we help our clients understand their users, save time, improve customer loyalty and satisfaction, and make the right product decisions.”

The Thematic platform provides visualizations and reports that help inform product roadmaps and clearly show trends in customer feedback. Insights and product teams use Thematic to understand feedback at scale, work more efficiently and make the right product decisions.  

“What our customers need is not just a summary but trusted analysis that they can trace to the context,” Medelyan said. “Rather than simply adding LLMs, we have embedded them in our platform, still giving customers the ability to trace analysis to its source and edit themes. This ensures that customers continue to get a trusted, accurate analysis. Just 1000x faster, and with readable summaries.”  

Thematic developed a system to leverage its proprietary AI to create guardrails for LLMs, to guarantee a summary that is thorough, readable, accurate, and provides quick snapshots of volume, sentiment, and trends for the selected theme. Relevant examples contribute further context and reporting purposes.  

“Our clients often ask, ‘What does this theme mean?’ or ‘What specifically do people say?’ when reviewing analyzed customer feedback. They want to understand the heart of the feedback without reading all the comments,” Medelyan said. “LLMs have the power to provide that insight, but as we know, they also can generate inaccurate responses as well. And accuracy in insights is essential to your business.”

This adds more capability to a platform that is already delivering powerful results for customers and incorporates an LLM that is grounded in Thematic’s analyzed data. “What makes it amazing is that it has a human-like ability to understand language and develop reasoning,” Medelyan said. “Thematic allows your product, operations, and insights teams to be aligned on priorities and issues to fix.”  

A new Forrester Total Economic Impact Study showed Thematic delivered a 543% return on investment by helping companies deliver incremental profits.

To learn more about what Thematic can do for your business, please visit getthematic.com

About Thematic 

Thematic is a powerful feedback analytics software platform that helps companies make sense of customer feedback at scale. The platform analyzes unstructured feedback data from a wide range of sources, including surveys, reviews, chat logs, and support tickets. Powered by cutting-edge AI, the analytics model transforms this data into insights so that companies can eliminate customer pain points and identify opportunities.

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Madeleine Moench

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ARuVR Becomes First XR Platform to Be Awarded ‘Accredited’ Provider Status by LPI

ARuVR Becomes First XR Platform to Be Awarded ‘Accredited’ Provider Status by LPI

ARuVR Becomes First XR Platform to Be Awarded ‘Accredited’ Provider Status by LPI– ARuVR® awarded ‘Accredited Learning Technologies’ provider status for its enterprise-grade Extended Reality (XR) training platform
– LPI recognises ARuVR® as forerunner in rapidly growing XR industry

ARuVR®, a multi-award-winning end-to-end Extended Reality (XR) training platform for enterprises, today announced that it has been awarded the status of Accredited Learning Technologies Provider by the LPI (Learning and Performance Institute), the leading global authority on workplace learning and development.

ARuVR® counts Coca-Cola, BT, Royal Air Force, Five Guys, ScotRail, NEOM, Amazon, and PWC among a rapidly growing international customer base and is the first and only XR provider on both the UK Government’s CCS digital outcomes and specialists framework, and Crown G-Cloud-approved supplier lists. ARuVR® enables organisations to quickly and easily leverage the location-agnostic convenience and results-driven benefits of XR (Virtual and Augmented Reality) all from a single platform, to create and deliver immersive training programmes. 

ARuVR®‘s LPI Accredited Learning Technologies Provider status recognises the company’s dedication to high quality and process improvement in providing learning, development, and training services to clients. This accreditation covers the Extended, Augmented and Virtual Reality products and professional services supplied by ARuVR® to their clients on a worldwide basis. ARuVR® followed a rigorous and in-depth process and was assessed on several key performance indicators, including business integrity, client value proposition, delivery capability, quality and performance management, people development, and business stability. ARuVR®‘s overall KPI score was near an outstanding 100% across all sections.

Edmund Monk, CEO of the LPI, said: “We have extremely high standards for accreditation, and we are proud to commend ARuVR on their achievement. We work with our accredited organisations to ensure that they not only meet our standards but that they continue to improve. This way, organisations can be confident that they are working with the best.” 

The LPI is the foremost accreditation and membership body for the learning and development profession with a global reputation. The accreditation process employs a highly robust framework, developed over many years by learning experts and validated by data from thousands of organisations to measure, benchmark and improve the capability and performance of learning professionals and learning providers.

Frank Furnari, CEO & Founder, ARuVR®, said: “As the market for XR training solutions grows exponentially, we are delighted to be the first in the sector to achieve accreditation status by the LPI. We are committed to providing our global clients with not only the highest levels of quality and service but also to bring AR and VR to the training industry, in a way in which any organisation can embrace and benefit from.”

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Andrew Durkin

Director

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FAA Seeks Public Input on Drone Operations

FAA Seeks Public Input on Drone Operations

FAA Seeks Public Input on Drone Operations

FAA Seeks Public Input on Drone Operations Tuesday, May 23, 2023 WASHINGTON— The FAA is seeking public input on four requests to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operations at or below 400 feet. If granted, Phoenix Air Unmanned, uAvionix, Zipline, and UPS Flight Forward will continue to expand the envelope of FAA-approved BVLOS drone operations. […]

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SerialTek Introduces PCI Express 6.0-Ready OCP 3.0 NIC and EDSFF Interposer

SerialTek Introduces PCI Express 6.0-Ready OCP 3.0 NIC and EDSFF Interposer

SerialTek Introduces PCI Express 6.0-Ready OCP 3.0 NIC and EDSFF InterposerInterposer for Kodiak PCIe Protocol Analysis System includes Industry’s First Integrated Power Analysis

SerialTek Introduces PCI Express 6.0-Ready OCP 3.0 NIC and EDSFF Interposer
OCP 3.0 NIC Interposer

PCIe x16 OCP 3.0 NIC\/EDSFF Interposer \nPCIe x8 EDSFF E3 Interposer

SerialTek, a leading provider of protocol test and analysis products for the data center and storage industries, including solutions for PCI Express® (PCIe®), NVM Express® (NVMe®), and Compute Express Link™ (CXL), today announced the availability of a modular, calibration-free interposer supporting OCP 3.0 NIC and EDSFF form factors. The interposer is compatible with current-generation PCIe 5.0 and is designed to support PCIe 6.0 PAM4 modulation at 64 GT/s and SerialTek’s future PCIe 6.0 protocol analyzers, allowing customers to invest in future-proofed solutions.   

Importantly, the new interposer features the industry’s first integrated power analysis functionality, powered by a compact module from Quarch Technology Ltd, a leading provider of automated test solutions for the data storage, networking, and telecom industries. The power analysis module provides very high-accuracy measurements of voltage, current, and power, eliminating the need for bulky current probes/oscilloscopes or DC power analyzers.  

PCI Express interposers are complex devices designed to be inserted non-intrusively between PCI Express system components that can operate over a variety of connectivity standards, and to interface from that system to a PCI Express protocol analyzer. SerialTek interposers use SI-Fi™, a proprietary probing technology that eliminates the need for hours-long calibration sequences, preserves the original signal quality of the link, and enables real-world PCIe link training debug. 

“SerialTek has long been a leader in the storage and networking marketplaces, so we understand the significant analysis requirements of our customers who are developing and deploying CXL devices based on OCP and EDSFF standards,” said Paul Mutschler, SerialTek CEO.  “This multi-form factor interposer with integrated power analysis provides a versatile, powerful solution for PCIe 5.0 and CXL analysis tasks today, and for tomorrow, built-in support for PCIe 6.0.  Put simply, we are delivering performance and economy on multiple fronts:  one tool, multiple form factors and multiple PCIe generations.” 

Integrated Power Analysis and Monitoring is a Critical Complement to Protocol Analysis 

The integration of the Quarch power analysis and monitoring module provides tracking of bus and device electricals without the need to employ an added fixture, which can adversely impact signal integrity and affect link-up performance. This field-proven module is calibrated to 100 µA, provides an impressive 4 µsec sampling rate, and delivers exceptional accuracies. With voltage, current, and power measurements integrated with the SerialTek protocol trace, along with the capture of sideband assertions, users get comprehensive, clear, and critical visibility on power consumption versus data throughput characteristics and excellent tracking of always-important power management link states.  

“Quarch power products have become the industry standard for testing storage devices and indeed our capabilities helped inform the development of the OCP power testing specifications,” said Andy Norrie, Quarch Technology Operations Director. “The addition of our power analysis technology to SerialTek’s Kodiak platform is very exciting to see and will be a great benefit to the engineers using it.”  

Improved and Expanded Testing Capabilities for CXL Engineers 

SerialTek’s innovative Kodiak Protocol Analysis System supports CXL, an industry-standard cache-coherent interconnect for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators that enables data-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence to access memory more efficiently and at lower latencies.  The new OCP/EDSFF interposer is compatible with new and upcoming CPU platforms from Intel and AMD that support CXL, as well as future ARM CPUs.  

Availability and Configurations 

The new SerialTek interposer supports lane widths of x16 for OCP 3.0 NIC and x8 for EDSFF and is available direct from SerialTek and its authorized distributors. 

These interposers can be purchased in the following configurations (requires QTL2312 Power Analysis Module from Quarch): 

  • PEI-G6-16-OCPQ (PCIe x16 OCP 3.0 NIC/EDSFF Interposer with Integrated Quarch Power Analysis)
  • PEI-G6-08-EDSQ (PCIe x8 EDSFF E3 Interposer with Integrated Quarch Power Analysis) 

For more information, please visit www.serialtek.com or contact [email protected]

About SerialTek 

SerialTek, a member of the Symbiosys Alliance, is a provider of innovative protocol test and analysis tools for the data center and storage industry. Leading manufacturers depend on SerialTek products to improve product quality and drive time-to-market requirements. SerialTek solutions support a variety of standards, including PCI Express (PCIe), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and Serial ATA (SATA).  

About Quarch Technology Ltd 

Quarch Technology Ltd, a member of the Symbiosys Alliance, is a leading supplier of award-winning power analysis and fault injection test solutions for the data storage, networking, data center and automotive industries. Quarch provides automated and scalable test systems to enable its customers to confidently address their markets with higher-performing, dependable, and efficient products and services. 

SerialTek, the SerialTek logo, Kodiak, SI-Fi and BusXpert are trademarks of SerialTek, and may be registered in some jurisdictions.  PCI Express® and PCIe® are registered trademarks of PCI-SIG® Corporation. Compute Express Link™ and CXL™ are registered trademarks of CXL Consortium. NVM Express®, NVMe™, and NVMe-oF™ are trademarks of NVM Express, Inc. Electron is the registered trademark of the OpenJS Foundation. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners. 

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Derek Huang

Sr. Technical Marketing Manager

[email protected]

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Simon Thomas

Director of Sales & Marketing

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Mona Introduces Industry’s First Generative AI Monitoring Solution

Mona Introduces Industry’s First Generative AI Monitoring Solution

Mona Introduces Industry’s First Generative AI Monitoring SolutionMona empowers businesses to leverage the full potential of generative AI through advanced, granular monitoring capabilities

Mona Introduces Industry’s First Generative AI Monitoring Solution
Mona’s Generative AI Monitoring

Mona automatically detects issues such as profanity use within prompts.

Mona, the leading AI monitoring company, today announces the launch of its generative AI monitoring solution, providing complete visibility for prompt engineering, large language models, GPT, and other generative AI projects. 

To ensure safe and effective use of generative AI approaches, avoid operational risks and ultimately gain the trust of business customers, it is critical to implement effective monitoring. Mona’s monitoring solution offers a range of benefits helping generative AI teams ensure the optimal performance and reliability of their generative AI. Key features include:

  • Optimize API Usage: Track generative AI functionality and performance. Find opportunities to reduce resource usage and optimize your API calls with advanced, granular tracking and automatic improvement suggestions.
  • Mitigate Risks: Get alerted on behavior outliers, drifts and sudden changes. Avoid problems caused due to model “hallucinations.” Unsure of what can go wrong? Mona knows exactly what to look for.
  • Easy Integration: Just wrap your API calls with our client, and monitoring is set up automatically.

“Our platform has always focused on product-oriented AI and AI-based processes, as opposed to just monitoring the models,” said Itai Bar-Sinai, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder at Mona. “Mona is perfectly tailored to accommodate the industry’s shift towards using generative AI.”

Mona is ideal for teams that host their own LLMs or call on models built by others via API, enabling monitoring for any large language model and any image generation tool. For more information, please visit: https://www.monalabs.io/generative-ai

About Mona

Mona is a monitoring platform for AI in production. The intelligent monitoring solution helps organizations increase trust in their AI system by giving them an analytical engine that can detect issues weeks or longer before they come to the surface, and by that to help avoid AI catastrophes. The company’s highly configurable platform provides teams with tailored, real-time insights to monitor and investigate performance issues, proactively alerting them regarding model behavior anomalies and data integrity issues. Founded in 2018 by product leaders and operators from Google and McKinsey & Co., the company is backed by top VCs, with offices in Tel Aviv and Atlanta. Learn more by visiting http://www.monalabs.io

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AI-Podcast Invasion: TwinChat AI Disrupts Social Media With 10,000 Famous Personalities’ Mind-Deepfakes – Unlocking VIP Celebrity Access for All

AI-Podcast Invasion: TwinChat AI Disrupts Social Media With 10,000 Famous Personalities’ Mind-Deepfakes – Unlocking VIP Celebrity Access for All

AI-Podcast Invasion: TwinChat AI Disrupts Social Media With 10,000 Famous Personalities’ Mind-Deepfakes – Unlocking VIP Celebrity Access for AllUnleash Individual, Emotional Narratives with Your Favorite Mind-Twin Personalities. Join a Never-Ending Show Featuring Authentic Emotions, News and Gossip. TwinChat Presents: Interactive AI-Podcasts.

Waken.ai, an innovative AI Lab, is redefining the frontiers of social media with the launch of its revolutionary TwinChat app. By offering a continuously evolving “podcast-like” experience, TwinChat AI enables users to engage in conversations with impressively realistic “Mind-Deepfake” Twins. These Twins are chosen from an extensive library of over 10,000 personalities, experts, and fictional characters. Initially released for iOS, with forthcoming web and Android versions, TwinChat AI provides an engaging and interactive alternative to traditional social media platforms.

TwinChat’s state-of-the-art “Mind-Deepfakes” provide a fresh perspective in the attention economy. Acting as thoughtful podcast guests, these AI-Twins are more than mere chatbots. They facilitate authentic, emotional, human-like interactions, allowing users to enjoy an on-demand podcast experience with their chosen celebrities, experts, or characters. Each user’s personalized “Twinfluencer” skillfully moderates captivating dialogues, creating a continuously evolving, tailored podcast-like narrative. TwinChat offers a depth-filled and refreshing alternative in the social media landscape.

Hassan Uriostegui, TwinChat’s Founder, boasts a significant track record in the tech sector. His previous ventures include co-founding FlyrTV, a company which garnered $6M in funding before its acquisition by Pond5, and the development of the Community iOS App for Ashton Kutcher’s social media platform. While the Community App aimed to bridge the gap between celebrities and fans via SMS, TwinChat surpasses this concept by replicating the mindset of renowned personalities, enabling users to interact with their favorite AI-Twins whenever they wish.

As Uriostegui shares, “TwinChat AI enables hyper-personalized learning, emotional connection, and critical thinking. It allows users to delve into the mindset, emotional depth, and life wisdom of celebrities, experts, and fictional characters through a constant, personal connection.”

TwinChat gives users the option to record their conversations, which are visually enriched with AI-selected GIFs to underscore the discussion, creating a compelling video. An optional AI narration can be added for a podcast-like experience. In April 2023, TwinChat partnered with a leading GIF provider, further elevating the platform’s visual appeal.

Pakko de la Torre, TwinChat’s Director of Creative Technology and AI, highlights the uniqueness of the app, stating, “Our platform reimagines the news feed, transforming real-world news into conversations between relevant AI-Twins. The standout feature of TwinChat, though, is the AI-AI socialization. Users can comment on public TwinChats, but the dialogue perceived by the group comes exclusively from their own Twinfluencer, ensuring an anonymous, empowering, and user-centric experience.

TwinChat aspires to offer celebrities and brands a sense of identity, purpose, and control over their AI-Twins. The team is actively collaborating with brands to reproduce personalities with voices and avatars in the near future, aiming to elevate the Twinfluencer experience to unprecedented heights.

Explaining the simplicity of using TwinChat, Arturo Castelan, Marketing Director, notes, “Creating a TwinChat is as straightforward as initiating a podcast. Users select up to three AI-Twins, use AI tools to auto-generate topics or enhance personal ideas, and then tap the TwinChat button. The Twinfluencer then guides the conversation, producing a never-ending, evolving podcast.

TwinChat is available in several languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic. For more information about TwinChat AI, please visit www.twinchat.com.

About TwinChat 
TwinChat is an AI entertainment startup devoted to democratizing digital interaction. By harnessing mind-deepfakes inspired by personalities, TwinChat utilizes state-of-the-art AI technology to establish a new era of personalized, AI-powered entertainment captivating audiences globally.

Contact Information:

Hassan Uriostegui

Researcher

[email protected]

3105691282

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