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Magic Mirror Tirelessly Indulges Children’s Curiousity

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[pepelepoisson]’s Miroir Magique (“Magic Mirror”) is an interesting take on the smart mirror concept; it’s intended to be a playful, interactive learning tool for kids who are at an age where language and interactivity are deeply interesting to them, but whose ceaseless demands for examples of spelling and writing can be equally exhausting. Inspiration came from his own five-year-old, who can neither read nor write but nevertheless has a bottomless fascination with the writing and spelling of words, phrases, and numbers.

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Nuance Communications says NotPetya attack has cost it $98 million since June

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Another U.S. software company has disclosed its losses due to the infamous NotPetya cyberattack. Nuance Communications — a U.S. computer software company that provides applications for speech and imaging to financial and healthcare companies — is claiming that the June 2017 attack cost the company $98 million in lost revenue. Nuance also said that its expecting more losses from the cyberattack this year. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company disclosed information about its losses in a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the filing, the company says the attack mainly affected healthcare companies using its software for transcription services and order processing. The company expects to lose more revenue this year when it enhances and upgrades its cybersecurity software, while still providing additional resources to its health companies. “For fiscal year 2017, we estimate that we lost approximately $68.0 million in revenues, primarily in our Healthcare segment, due to the service disruption […]

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Nuance Communications says NotPetya attack has cost it $98 million since June

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Another U.S. software company has disclosed its losses due to the infamous NotPetya cyberattack. Nuance Communications — a U.S. computer software company that provides applications for speech and imaging to financial and healthcare companies — is claiming that the June 2017 attack cost the company $98 million in lost revenue. Nuance also said that its expecting more losses from the cyberattack this year. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company disclosed information about its losses in a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the filing, the company says the attack mainly affected healthcare companies using its software for transcription services and order processing. The company expects to lose more revenue this year when it enhances and upgrades its cybersecurity software, while still providing additional resources to its health companies. “For fiscal year 2017, we estimate that we lost approximately $68.0 million in revenues, primarily in our Healthcare segment, due to the service disruption […]

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A week in security (July 17 – July 23)

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A compilation of security news and blog posts from the 17th of July to the 23rd. We discuss the recent Dark Web market take downs and lots more.

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Nuance brings deep learning tech to its Dragon speech recognition

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deep-learning-for-speech-recognition-624x416 Your speech-recognizing friends at Nuance are back with a major update to their flagship app, Dragon. The popular productivity software is now in its 15th version, an update that promises some substantial improvements in accuracy courtesy of the company’s own deep learning tech, which forms the basis of its speech engine. According to Nuance, this latest upgrade brings… Read More Continue reading Nuance brings deep learning tech to its Dragon speech recognition→