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Cox Media | September 22, 2016

Atlanta, GA — Thursday, September 22, 2016 — Chicago-based Vivid Seats is pleased to announce a new partnership with Cox Media Group site, SECCountry.com. As the Official Ticket Partner, visitors of SECCountry.com and its sister site, Landof10.com, will be able to seamlessly access links to Vivid Seats’ industry-leading technology and easy-to-use platform for purchasing affordable game tickets. “In partnering with the Big Ten Championships and several SEC teams, Vi...

Google | January 13, 2020

Google is finally ready to give Android users in EU the choice of alternative search engines but surprisingly it’s DuckDuckGo that has been regarded as the most preferred choice whereas Bing stood at last. From 1st March 2020, European Union citizens will get the advantage to choose one out of four search engines as their default (including Google). By doing so, they will not only see their selected choice for making searches in Chrome, but also through Android home screen search box and a...

Facebook | January 13, 2020

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its release in December 2018, FAIR called the fastest open source speech recognition system available. Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is used to turn ...

Google | January 14, 2020

Google Ads is rolling out bid simulator support for the Target ROAS (return on ad spend) bid strategy, as well as a new budget simulator. This marks the first time bid simulator support has been available for a smart bidding campaign. Previously, bid simulators have only been available for campaigns using manual bidding or Target CPA. Bid simulators help advertisers understand their potential performance at different ad levels. The Target ROAS bid simulator shows the relationship between a ROAS ...