Upgraded browser extension available for download directly from the Apple's App Store

Keeper Security, the leading provider of cloud-based zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, passkeys, secrets, connections and privileged access, today announces the launch of Keeper for Safari, its updated browser extension for Apple users. The powerful new version can be downloaded directly from Apple's App Store and is no longer bundled with Keeper's Desktop App. This unified extension architecture will provide users with a more streamlined download experience, as well as more frequent updates and improvements to Keeper's award-winning password and passkey management software.

The Keeper for Safari browser extension will generate strong passwords, autofill logins and protect your confidential information with world-class security. Keeper is built on a zero-knowledge and zero-trust security architecture, so all of your data is fully encrypted and only accessible by you. Keeper is the most secure way to store your passwords, passkeys and private information, protect yourself against credential-related cyberthreats and be more productive online.

"Keeper's browser extension for Safari now shares the same codebase as our Chrome, Edge and Firefox extensions, which streamlines the user experience and allows us to continue to move fast to deploy new capabilities for all users, across all operating systems. With the addition of passkey support, this provides customers with a consistent experience wherever they use Keeper," said Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. "By launching the powerful new Keeper for Safari as a standalone solution, we're furthering our commitment to simplifying cybersecurity for our users while enabling more frequent upgrades and updates to provide the best protection available."

Keeper provides a seamless user experience across all of its supported browsers:

• Automatically generate strong, unique passwords and store them in an encrypted digital vault.
• Save and autofill passkeys
• Automatically fill your stored credentials on all of your websites and apps.
• Store and autofill your two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, too. Supports TOTP, SMS, WebAuthn and more.
• Access your secure digital vault, and sync and manage your data, on all of your devices.
• Store more than just passwords. Use your Keeper vault for confidential files, photos, videos, payment card and bank information, and other sensitive data.
• Securely share passwords, other data, and files with family, friends and colleagues.
• Dark Web monitoring notifies you if an account is breached.
• Organize your data with nested folders, subfolders, and shared folders.
• Switch easily between multiple Keeper accounts, like business and personal.

Users can now download the extension directly from the Apple App Store. After doing so, they must disable the existing KeeperFill extension and activate Keeper for Safari by clicking the checkbox. For more information, users can visit the Safari Extension User Guide.

This launch follows the recent announcement that Keeper now supports the use of passkeys in its browser extensions, which save and auto-fill the passkey, much like a password-based login. The Keeper web vault and desktop application provide management of the passkeys, such as being able to share them with team members. Passkey storage on mobile is coming soon. Android has announced support starting with Android 14 and Apple has confirmed support with iOS 17. Both are expected to be released later in 2023.

Research shows authenticity is key when demonstrating allyship this Pride month and beyond

As Pride month commences, iStock, a leading e-commerce platform providing premium visual content to SMBs, SMEs, creatives and students everywhere, has revealed that businesses continue to use tokenistic and stereotypical imagery when trying to demonstrate support of the LGBTQ+ community. Only 1% of all customer downloads in 2022 featured LGBTQ+ representation and rainbow flags make up 29% of all imagery used to represent the LGBTQ+ community.

These insights sit at odds with consumer sentiment, with iStock’s VisualGPS research showing that people are looking to engage with brands that celebrate diversity. Almost 70% of non-LGBTQ+ consumers feel better about buying products from companies that feature LGBTQ+ people in adverts and 75% of non-LGBTQIA identifying respondents state they are comfortable seeing this inclusion.

The research also shows that visualising communities in an authentic way matters, with 83% responding that it’s important to see pictures and videos of what’s happening to people around the world in order to understand the daily challenges they face. With 53% of LGBTQ+-identifying people reporting experience of discrimination based on their sexual orientation (a worrying increase of 5% in only 8 months), it is more essential than ever for businesses to be using authentic, everyday imagery of the community.

“People clearly recognise the power of authentic representation of the LGBTQ+ community to drive change and acceptance, and consumers are open and accepting of the imagery, yet businesses still fail to get it right,” said Dr. Rebecca Swift, Global Head of Creative Insights at iStock. “The future could look better though, with 56% of respondents to our VisualGPS research stating that they think it is likely that people will be widely accepted regardless of how they identify in the future (up 3% in 8 months). Businesses therefore have an opportunity to show their allyship to the LGBTQ+ community with thoughtful and inclusive marketing which extends beyond Pride month. Authenticity is key to building trust and believability, and crucial to representing all LGBTQ+ people with humanity and dignity.”

There are a few simple questions business owners can ask themselves when selecting images and videos to ensure they are more reflective of the lived experience of the LGBTQ+ community, helping build better understanding and acceptance and demonstrate allyship all year round:

1. What scenarios are LGBTQ+ people pictured in? Are you showing them at work, at home, at school, travelling or in other social settings? Currently, 28% of imagery shows LGBTQI+ people marching/protesting, 27% at rainbow-washed parties, only 14% show individuals in a business setting, or 14% as professionals.
   
   
2. Are you only showing LGBTQ+ people in romantic stories or as parents? What about non-partnered LGBTQ+ people living full lives? Currently LGBTQ+ people are 5x more likely to be pictured with a romantic partner than the general population.
   
   
3. Are you showing LGBTQ+ people living fulfilling, positive lives? Having shared experiences both within and outside their communities? With friend groups of all identities? With a variety of family structures and with colleagues? Currently 30% of gay men are shown as feminine or 28% as flamboyant, while 29% of lesbian women are shown as masculine, promoting ongoing stereotypes.

Free AI Solution is Now Available and Currently Aiding Over 100,000 Developers

Bito, the first company to incorporate ChatGPT and OpenAI to understand all of a user’s code and provide personalized answers to dramatically accelerate the full lifecycle of development tasks for programmers, has launched the first publicly available version of its new platform with a $3.2 million funding round.

Bito is the first technology solution to provide customized results from code generation to testing to code documentation to code search, learning from a user’s own codebase. The company’s AI-powered coding assistant engine is currently in Alpha release, free to use, and built to work with Visual Studio Code, JetBrain IDEs, and the CLI. Current Bito users include engineers from Apple, Amazon, Airbnb, Accenture, Uber, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Nvidia, Nike, Cisco, Intel, Samsung, Lenovo, Intuit, Adobe, Qualcomm, Tesla, Alibaba, Houzz, and Riot Games.

Bito’s CEO, Amar Goel, is the former CEO and founder of PubMatic, the leading Nasdaq-traded cloud infrastructure platform enabling real-time programmatic advertising transactions. Bito’s co-founders are Anand Das, founding CTO at PubMatic, who built an infrastructure with thousands of servers handling over five petabytes of daily data, and Mukesh Agarwal, a former product leader at Microsoft and Ernst & Young.

The round was led by Eniac Ventures and was supported by The Cap Table Coalition, which aims to diversify the VC ecosystem by creating investment opportunities for Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Native American, women, and other traditionally marginalized investors.

Funding for Bito also comes from a field of tech pioneers that includes Mohak Shroff, SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn; Sri Shivananda, CTO at PayPal; Keyur Govande, Chief Architect at Etsy; Yvonne Wassenaar, former CEO of Puppet Labs; Reza Behforooz, VP of Engineering at Google; Kruti Patel Goyal, CEO of Depop (a division of Etsy); and Nick Mehta, CEO at Gainsight.

Bito AI is a general-purpose AI assistant that can answer any developer question, generate source code from natural language prompts, and give feedback on existing code. The system can generate code in any programming language with natural language prompts (e.g., write a Java function to authenticate a user and provide them a welcome message) and create more time and space for developers to focus on solving problems and creating more innovative products. Bito’s users tend to use the platform nearly 200 times per month, and in surveys report that Bito makes them 31% more productive.

“Bito’s AI is an intuitive solution to empower the next generation of developers to automate ever more complex tasks at scale, freeing up massive resources to focus on more important work,” said Amar Goel, CEO and Co-founder of Bito. “With the ability to write, analyze and optimize code while understanding your own codebase, the launch of Bito’s platform represents a milestone in the history of software development.”

With the Bito AI Assistant, developers can:

• Command Syntax: Ask for the syntax of any technical command (e.g. “How to set a global variable for git?").
• Test Cases: Generate unit tests for their code.
• Explain Code: Explain the selected code. Ask how this code works or what it does and relates to other code in your repository.
• Comment Method: Generate a comment for the function or method to add to your code.
• Improve Performance: Ask how you can improve the performance of a given code selection.
• Check Security: Ask if the selected code has any known security issues.
• Learn Technical Concepts: Ask a question about any technical concept.

“Bito’s engine gives developers a Swiss Army Knife of capabilities, and can save the typical developer an hour or more each day that would otherwise be consumed with menial tasks while dramatically improving the quality of production systems,” said DJ Patil, former Chief Data Scientist of the United States and former Chief Data Scientist of LinkedIn.

Prashant Mahajan, CTO and Co-founder of Sequoia-funded Privado, said, “Leveraging OpenAI and soon other models such as Anthropic, Bito saves programmers substantial time and money by automating everyday tasks and enabling efficiencies across the entire spectrum of software development. We are really excited to be using it.”

SyncWords, the leading provider of AI live captioning, subtitling, and dubbing, is thrilled to announce a Unified Platform for In-player Delivery of Live AI Captions, Subtitles, and Dubs (also known as AI voice translation). With this release, real-time captions, subtitles, and audio translations can be accessed inside a streaming media player (i.e. in-player), allowing users to choose between multiple languages. This marks a significant milestone for live video streaming, enabling global audiences to enjoy content in their preferred language using subtitles or voice translation.

"With our AI-based solution, SyncWords will unlock massive opportunities for live video streaming to reach global audiences in their respective languages with voice. And this applies to several use cases including live corporate events, news broadcasts, gaming, and much more," according to Ash Shah, CEO of SyncWords.

Automation of Voice Translation

With the Live Dubbing offering, content creators can easily include one or more translated audio tracks into a live stream. The user experience is intuitive and friendly, giving viewers a simple way to switch between languages. With 40+ languages currently being offered, the platform enables customers to generate live subtitles and audio dubs for their content, whether that is a meeting, event, or 24/7 live stream, almost instantly. Features like regional accents and the ability to choose between different voice options help increase the level of inclusivity for viewers.

Ease of Use for Streaming Providers

The SyncWords Live platform has been optimized to work with AWS Elemental workflows using MediaLive and CloudFront, as well as other content delivery networks (CDNs). This means the solution can integrate with existing live-streaming workflows without the need for additional R&D. It is also compatible with popular streaming software like OBS, VMix, and Wirecast, enabling professionals to deliver their live streams with text or voice translations.

SyncWords' unique innovation includes delivering captions, subtitles, and audio translations to HLS streams. Some of the benefits of using this approach include:

• No need to transcode your stream
• Make multiple caption and subtitle tracks available on one stream
• Make multiple translated audio tracks available on one stream
• Synchronize live captions and translations with SyncWords' proprietary AI
• Support for non-Latin character sets like Asian, Middle Eastern, and Cyrillic characters
• Support for both human and AI captions
• Support for 24/7 workflows

In addition to SyncWords' disruptive HLS streaming capabilities, the platform also supports delivery of traditional 608 captions for social networks like YouTube and Facebook.

System Customization

With the newly introduced support of HLS VTT/Dubbing, SyncWords caters to not only live broadcast and OTT providers but is also compatible with all major HLS players on the market. Thus, live captions and audio translations can now be added to standard streaming workflows, bringing enhanced accessibility and inclusivity with effective automation to the next level.

Another important asset of SyncWords Live as a platform for in-player delivery of real-time captions, subtitles, and dubs it's the actual event/stream support done by SyncWords' technicians. Use our team of experts to help define and optimize your workflow and integrate SyncWords' translation system for your live streams.

The GoFormz application is recognized as an "Acumatica-Certified Application" by the cloud ERP company

GoFormz, the leading digital forms and data collection platform, today announced that its software has been recognized as an Acumatica-Certified Application (ACA), meeting the highest standards set for Acumatica integration and functionality. The certification can give both Acumatica customers and prospects confidence that GoFormz's application can meet their needs.

Acumatica, the world's fastest-growing cloud ERP company, was recently recognized by customers for its positive relationships and usability, leading to ten No. 1 rankings in G2 Business Software and Services 2022 reports – based on accurate and timely reviews from real business users.

Acumatica is a comprehensive, browser-based Cloud ERP solution optimized for ease of use, adaptability, mobility, speed and security. The ACA title highlights only outstanding development partners whose applications have met specific standards of excellence.

"Customers looking to stay competitive need flexible, responsive technology and resilient systems to thrive and grow," said Christian Lindberg, vice president of partner solutions at Acumatica. "Our ACA label is designed to help customers find those applications that are best capable of delivering. We proudly recognize the GoFormz application as an Acumatica-Certified Application that masterfully utilizes the Acumatica platform to enable customers to execute their strategies and meet their evolving business needs."

To become an Acumatica-Certified Application, GoFormz has demonstrated commitment to quality by passing the Acumatica software test and aligning to future Acumatica roadmap releases.

"We're honored to receive this kind of recognition from the Acumatica developers themselves," said Rob Brewster, CEO at GoFormz. "This is a testament to the strength of our platform and the depth of our integration with Acumatica. With our intuitive, dynamic digital forms application and Acumatica's solid foundation, I believe the sky's the limit for our partnership."

SpotHopper, a leading provider of restaurant marketing and operations technology, has announced a Series B funding round with $12 million raised.

The funding came from existing investor TVC Capital, a software-focused growth equity firm based in San Diego. The investment will be used to accelerate the enhancement of the company's AI-based autonomous sales and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry. The new investment brings the company's total capital raised to $26 million to date.

SpotHopper is the fastest growing restaurant software technology company in the U.S. with thousands of customers. The company has grown in excess of 100% per year for the last five years. SpotHopper is already the industry leader in automated marketing tools for restaurants and plans on using the investment to supercharge its platform with new generative artificial intelligence technologies, as well as a fleet of additional features that will help even further streamline restaurant operations.

"This new funding will allow SpotHopper to invest into all of our functional teams, delivering marketing workflows that have proven to accelerate revenues at lower cost with superior outcomes for independent restaurants and hospitality groups," said SpotHopper's Co-Founder and CEO, Aleksandar Ivanovic.

Founded in 2015, SpotHopper is based in Milwaukee, WI with offices across the United States and development and operations offices in Serbia.

Shufflrr raises the bar on presentations by integrating ChatGPT into PowerPoint. Shufflrr for Windows PowerPoint ChatGPT Plugin is the ultimate AI-powered presentation tool. It combines ChatGPT presentation creation, with lightning-fast search and slide preview. Users can create new and add existing slides to your presentations in seconds. With Shufflrr ChatGPT PowerPoint plugin you can:

• Create a new PowerPoint file using ChatGPT
• Find and quickly add slides, images, and videos from other PowerPoint files
• Switch from multiple open PowerPoint files all within the same window
• Sync with Shufflrr Cloud Slide library
• Manage a slide library through PowerPoint

The PowerPoint plugin allows individuals and enterprises alike to create branded, compliant presentations in minutes.

"Intelligent presentations are built from a slide library," says James Ontra, CEO of Shufflrr "This is how presentations get smarter."

All the benefits of Shufflrr Slide Library right in PowerPoint.

Oracle is uniquely positioned to deliver generative AI services spanning applications to infrastructure that help businesses solve today's most complex challenges

Oracle partners with Cohere to provide generative AI services

Oracle today announced its plans to develop powerful, generative AI services for organizations worldwide. Oracle will provide native generative AI services to help organizations automate end-to-end business processes, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences, in collaboration with Cohere, a leading AI platform for enterprise. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and leveraging Oracle's unique Supercluster capabilities, Oracle generative AI services will span applications to infrastructure and aim to provide the highest levels of security, performance, and value in the industry.

"Only Oracle can offer a complete, end-to-end platform for generative AI, with advanced security, best-in-class data management, and a comprehensive portfolio of cloud applications able to address any business problem," said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Our partnership with Cohere will enable our customers to easily embed generative AI into their business. Using Cohere's foundational models, customers can securely incorporate their own data to train specific models, deploy them on best-in-class AI infrastructure through OCI, and experience the business benefits immediately in their applications."

Through the partnership, Cohere will train, build, and deploy its generative AI models on OCI. OCI is uniquely positioned to run AI workloads as it delivers the highest performance and lowest cost GPU cluster technology, with scale of over 16K H100 GPUs per cluster, and very low latency and the highest bandwidth RDMA network in the cloud. This will enable the acceleration of large language models (LLM) training while simultaneously reducing the cost.

"Oracle and Cohere have a shared focus on data security, model customization, and enabling enterprises to create business value," said Martin Kon, president & COO, Cohere. "Together, Oracle and Cohere will help enterprises worldwide accelerate their AI initiatives, drive greater value, and deliver new levels of automation that maximize business success – while ensuring their data is secure and private."

Cohere models will also be directly integrated into the industry's most complete portfolio of cloud applications. By embedding Cohere's language models in its business applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle industry-specific applications, Oracle will enable customers to quickly and securely deploy generative AI to solve their most pressing business challenges. 

The combination of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of cloud applications, unrivaled data management expertise, best-in-class AI infrastructure, with Cohere's state-of-the-art large language models will deliver:

• Unrivaled data security, privacy, and governance: OCI's generative AI service will allow customers to have complete control and ownership of their data. In addition, unlike other generative AI offerings, Oracle's generative AI services will not mix customer data. As a result, a given business' competitive advantage will always remain its own. Tools for accessing data provenance and lineage will be available as well.
• Powerful and high-performing models: Oracle's generative AI services leverage Cohere's state-of-the-art foundational LLMs and can be customized and improved based on Oracle's unique industry knowledge and data insights. In addition, customers can further refine these models using their own data to increase accuracy for specific business use cases. 
• Embedded generative AI services: By making generative AI pervasive across its portfolio of cloud applications—including ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX —Oracle will enable customers to take advantage of the latest innovations within existing business processes. Oracle will deploy new models for Healthcare and Public Safety and embed generative AI throughout its industry-specific applications. These AI services will boost knowledge workers' productivity and efficiency while freeing up time for ideation, creativity, and value-added tasks and improving the overall employee experience. In addition, Oracle will embed generative AI capabilities into its database portfolio in the same way that it introduced machine learning features in Oracle Database and MySQL HeatWave.
• Generative AI available wherever customers need it: Customers can use the generative AI service in OCI and leverage all the advantages of public cloud to scale solutions on demand, customize models, and create private model endpoints for their business. In addition, Oracle will deliver generative AI services to organizations' data centers, enabling them to combine generative capabilities together with their on-premises data and applications.

Customer Quotes
"Generative AI is an amazing opportunity to support our business, delight our customers, and boost productivity," said Kamran Zargahi, senior director, Uber. "We're excited to partner with Oracle and Cohere to achieve those goals together."

"Utilizing generative AI in HCM applications will be a game-changer for organizations," said Gareth Abreu, domain principal – HCM Business Platforms, Co-op. "We're excited about what's becoming possible in this space. Streamlining and making actions more efficient, intelligently guiding individuals to better outcomes, and elevating worker experiences are just a few of the benefits we expect to gain from the use of generative AI within Oracle Cloud HCM. This technology has the power to completely reinvent how we're thinking about work and the work of HR specifically."

"University of Missouri Health Care is looking forward to simplifying physician and nurse workflows by incorporating generative AI into their Oracle electronic health record system, which will help them spend more time with patients to improve the quality of care and healthcare experience," said Richard J. Barohn, MD, executive vice chancellor for Health Affairs and Hugh E. and Sarah D. Stephenson Dean, School of Medicine, University of Missouri. 

Additional Resources

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