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Spirin Dex #4 (Alpha Not Finished)

Make your own birdy By Hazelthedragoness on DeviantArt was used to make the initial design.

Marchick

Dex # 4

Grass Type

Leaf Wing Pokémon

Capable of Human Speach: 20%

Diet: Omnivore

Extremely Rare

Height: 8″ (0.2 m)

Weight: 3.7 lbs (1.7 kg)

Abilities: TBD

Gender Ratio: F-87.5% – M-12.5%

Evo Line: Marchick -25- Owleen -42- Orterra

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Headspace acqui-hires Alpine.ai to launch new meditation coaching experiences

Headspace acqui-hires Alpine.ai to launch new meditation coaching experiences

Meditation app Headspace has acquired Alpine.ai, a startup that helps brands create voice apps like Alexa skills or Google Assistant actions. Part of the Alpine.ai team will join Headspace and report directly to CTO Paddy Hannon, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The Alpine.ai acquisition will be used to help bring new…

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US DFC to extend $50-million vaccine assistance to Biological E - Times of India

US DFC to extend $50-million vaccine assistance to Biological E – Times of India

HYDERABAD: As phase of the Quad vaccine partnership, the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will extend monetary assistance to the track of $50 million to Hyderabad-based Biological E Ltd to assist the vaccine maker ramp up its capacities to make over 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines via 2022 finish. DFC’s leader running officer David Marchick and Biological E’s…

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US DFC extends $ 50-million vaccine grant to Biological E

US DFC extends $ 50-million vaccine grant to Biological E

HYDERABAD: As part of Quad vaccine The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is providing a $ 50 million grant to Hyderabad-based Biological E Ltd to help the vaccine manufacturer increase its capacity to produce more than 1 billion Covid-19 vaccines. 2022 at the end. DFC chief executive David Marchick and biological director general E Mahima Datla signed a line-up…

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Trump ready for transition, offers access to Biden and team

On Monday, The General Service Administration attested that Joe Biden is the winner of the Presidential election. After several weeks of no action, Donald Trump became active and dialed his agencies and departments to cooperate.

Talking about the General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy Trump said, “I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same." He however said that he would still continue to contest for the outcome of the election.

Now that the transition process is official, Biden and his team will get access to current agency officials, briefing books, some $6 million in funding and other government resources.

“Because of recent developments involving legal challenges and certifications of election results, I have determined that you may access the post-election resources and services described in Section 3 of the Act upon request," stated a letter that Murphy wrote to Biden and wherein she cited the Presidential Transition Act of 1963.

The executive director of the Biden-Harris transition in an emailed statement said that the transition is a much needed step as it would help  “getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track," “In the days ahead, transition officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full accounting of our national security interests, and gain complete understanding of the Trump administration’s efforts to hollow out government agencies," he added.

“Fortunately, federal career civil servants have done an outstanding job preparing for this year’s transition by producing fact-based information on critical agency issues and by designating acting officials who will lead agency operations until new political appointees are confirmed," said David Marchick, director of the Center for Presidential Transition. “They now need space to do their jobs."

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In the first month of his presidential transition, former President Barack Obama spoke with 44 foreign leaders, according to a count by the center. Because Mr. Biden, as a recent U.S. vice president, has previous relationships with these foreign leaders, their aides seem to be pressing on with the long-distance phone calls between the two teams. This lack of coordination with the State Department regarding the congratulatory calls is unprecedented, said David Marchick, director of the Center for Presidential Transition at the Partnership for Public Service. In the past two days, Mr. Biden has spoken with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, according to readouts from the transition team. The swift changes come at a critical time for the country, as Mr. Trump refuses to concede and the administrator of the general service refuses to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden is the winner, rendering coordination between the incoming administration and the current administration non-existent.

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Spirin Starters!

The evo lines for the three starters & more will be coming very soon.

Water Type Fox: Blixit, The Aqua Claw Pokémon

Grass Type Owl: Marchick, The Leaf Wing Pokémon

Fire Type Fish: Sparnix, The Volt Fin Pokémon

You will get to see their battle, overworld, cries & shiny sprites.

Also, between November & December you'll be able to see the 2 regional rodents, regional bird, and possibly the elusive River Keeper Pokémon, Rivlien!

So, keep an eye out for more fangame info!

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Hype kills value, and other hard lessons from veteran voice app developers

Hype kills value, and other hard lessons from veteran voice app developers

At the AI-focused Transform event held by VentureBeat in Mill Valley, California, Google VP Scott Huffman, who is in charge of engineering teams for Google Assistant, shared some insights into what it takes to create lasting experiences with voice assistants. Becoming part of a person’s daily routine helps drive adoption, for example, and Google Assistant commands like “Create a reminder” or…

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Meditation app Headspace bets on voice and AI with Alpine.AI acquisition

Headspace, a meditation app with 31 million users that is valued at $320 million, is doubling down on voice and A.I. technology to help differentiate itself from the rest of the wellness pack. The company today has announced that it has acquired Alpine.AI (previously called VoiceLabs), one of the early players in the digital assistant market, to bring more voice interaction into its main app.

“There are a few meditation apps out there right now…but the ability to react to where you are in your journey with specific advice through voice applications will be [far ahead] of where our competitors are,” says Headspace’s new CTO Paddy Hannon, who will lead the Alpine team of four who are joining Headspace’s offices in San Francisco.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the deal includes both the team and the technology, Headspace said. The team joining will include Alpine.AI co-founder and CTO Alexandre Linares and three engineers. Alpine.AI CEO Adam Marchick will retain an advisory role going forward.

VoiceLabs had experimented across a number of voice-based products over the years. They included a voice advertising product that Amazon squashed; an analytics service for voice app developers; and most recently, a solution that could build voice shopping apps by importing retailers’ catalogs and using A.I. to answer customer questions about those products.

The latter, known as Alpine.AI, is what Headspace found most interesting.

Alpine.AI was working on solutions for retailers, which would allow customers to talk to their voice assistants naturally. For example, asking for a mascara, the voice assistant would respond with things like, “What color?” and “Do you want it to be waterproof?”

Headspace is not about to start selling make-up, but it does see potential in applying Alpine.AI’s machine learning technologies to its own domain.

Today, Headspace’s primary interface with users is audio. Users are guided through meditation sessions by the soothing, calm and distinctive voice of Andi Puddicombe, the co-founder who is a former Tibetan monk.

Building on that foundation, the plan will be to implement Alpine.AI’s technology to give people an interactive voice-based way to discover the different meditation sessions available on Headspace, and to use those interactions to make better suggestions to individual users.

A consumer might tell Headspace they’re “stressed out,” and the app would make an appropriate recommendation based on the customer’s history in the app.

The addition of Alpine’s technology could be a competitive advantage for Headspace, in the crowded and growing field of self-care apps. Headspace is just ahead of chief rival Calm.com in terms of valuation, with the latter at around $277 million, according to data from PitchBook.

Beyond the initial advantage of improving Headspace’s voice apps, Hannon says Alpine’s technology can be put to use in other ways, as well, including within its iOS and Android apps where users’ actions — not a voice command — could be the trigger that kicks off a personalized suggestion.

Hannon says Alpine.AI was also appealing because of how it was built.

“They built everything on Amazon. They use Docker. This was another reason it was a very attractive acquisition,” Hannon explains. “They built software using the same patterns that we build our software with internally. They’re leveraging much of the same database technologies that we’re using. They use REST services like we do…so from an infrastructure perspective, it was very straightforward.

“I think where it’s going to be interesting is attaching our audio content to their text-based system. But when you look at what Amazon’s providing with things like Lex right now, there’s a lot of text-to-speech or speech-to-text systems, that I think will enable us to do that implementation,” he added.

The deal is also about betting on the future of voice computing. The number of voice-enabled digital assistant devices has grown to over 1 billion worldwide over the past two-and-a-half years. Today, 20 percent of U.S. households have a dedicated smart speaker, and that number is expected to grow.

As one of the leading apps in the profitable self-care app market, Headspace today reaches 31 million users, including over 1 million paying subscribers, across 190 countries. It also runs a B2B business focused on bringing its meditation exercises to larger organizations and their employees, where it has more than 250 businesses on board.

Alpine.AI was a seed stage company at the time of the acquisition, having raised “a few million” from investors including The Chernin Group, Javelin Venture Partners and Betaworks. But while voice-enabled smart speakers have proven to have some popularity, we’ve yet to see many startups working in voice-based interfaces scale up and take on the likes of Nuance or other large platform players like Apple, Google and Amazon. This might have been part of the reason why Alpine.AI was an attractive acquisition target (and was also open to the exit).

The startup is winding down the small handful of retailers, including Petco, who were using the product and is offering each a one-on-one transition plan.

“We are thrilled to be dedicating our efforts to coaching and guiding users to build healthy routines,” said Alpine.AI CEO Adam Marchick, about the acquisition. “Alpine’s machine learning capabilities accelerate Headspace’s efforts to bring new conversational experiences to market.”

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