The shift to IPTV: Operators’ top three questions answered
We’re well into the streaming era – and well aware of the challenges Pay TV operators have faced in recent years, including competition from streaming, fragmented audiences and diminishing returns on legacy QAM-based video services. But today, there are more reasons than ever for operators to adopt the cloud-hosted model that gave rise to today’s complex, content-rich entertainment ecosystem. Moving from a traditional, on-premise...
Time is precious – make sure your viewers spend more time viewing and less time browsing
Over the past years, video consumption has increased across the board. Consumers have quickly gotten accustomed to having multiple SVOD subscriptions, in addition to a Pay TV subscription that offers live, catch-up and...
Inside Nucleus, An Integrated Data Platform From Vodafone & Google Cloud
Vodafone and Google Cloud recently entered a six-year strategic partnership to build a robust integrated data platform called Nucleus. The new platform will drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, learnings and insights to create new digital products and services for Vodafone customers worldwide. In 2019, Vodafone migrated to Google Cloud to support the former’s data analytics, infrastructure and machine learning. Now,...
Under The Hood Of Luminar AI, Skylum’s Latest Photo Editing Tool
In December 2020, Skylum—a software development company based in Bellevue, Washington—released the highly anticipated Luminar AI, the world’s first image editor entirely powered by artificial intelligence. The application is available as a standalone product for Windows and Mac and can be used as a plug-in for Photos for macOS and Adobe platforms, Photoshop and Lightroom. Luminar AI has four categories- catalog, templates, edit,...
Europe & The Dream For Ethical AI
‘Artificial Intelligence is a fantastic opportunity for Europe. And citizens deserve technologies they can trust’. -Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission Artificial intelligence has penetrated all walks of life, including healthcare, entertainment, policymaking, law enforcement etc. However, the technology has its share of downsides. In the face of a growing chorus of criticisms and fears over the outsized...
Building A Secure & Scalable System – A Case Study
Building a cloud-native application often requires us to focus on multiple aspects, in a holistic manner. The creation of just a working application is not good enough to call it a well-built application. In the past, the focus had always been more on functionality than on the critical aspects surrounding the application. Giving enough importance to these activities can quickly become our differentiator in building a resilient...
Why India Is A Hotspot For Data Labelling Services?
An AI or machine learning model is as good as the data it is trained on. As things stand, 80 percentage time of an AI project is earmarked for wrangling training data, including data labelling. Data labelling takes up the bulk of data scientists’ time, which could otherwise have been devoted to building the algorithm. Many companies outsource data labelling and annotation so the data scientists can focus on algorithm development and...
