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Automobile technology has come a long way since the first car was launched in the 19th century. Along came its various technological wings or the frontiers with unrelenting work on design, efficiency, economy, and safety.

It is a new era in which the automobile evolution has come into. Smart devices are driving our day to day lives. Speech recognition technology has come to become an everyday car-riding experience. It is an issue that made the industry welcome in-car speech recognition in such a big way. There was a need, and the very need drove the research and innovation rather than just producing and marketing another product to capture the attention of the buyers. There are tech-hungry buyers of today who are not vulnerable to getting drawn to anything that becomes a market buzzword. They have become quite selective and aware of what they need.

One might wonder why there is a need for in-car speech recognition technology. To answer that one can recognize the fact that there is a drive that works for acknowledging the reality there is a strong need for driving people safe and feeding the device-dependent attributes of humans. There are a plethora of objects inside the car like the maps by Google or texting gadgets which time and again force people to take their eyes off the road. It is distractive and needs immediate intervention with bringing about something that lets you concentrate on the road and yet lets you get all the inputs you require to make your drive easy and pleasurable. There are laws to regulate our unsafe driving behaviours while driving, like speaking over the phone while at the steering wheels or using emails.

The system aims at removing the distractions such as looking down constantly at your cell phone while you are at the wheels. A display at the front will make it easy for you to drive and get a glimpse of something important on a gadget. Thus, you keep your mind on the road for the sake of safety. Use of spoken instruction is heading in the right direction.

There are three categories basic, intermediate, and advanced.

Basic: The basic level of voice activation works around media and entertainment built in your car. You can use your voice to switch stations of the radio, control volume, change tracks, etc.

Intermediate: It allows you to use the phone to make and receive calls, work on the GPS, and even adjust the air-conditioning system inside the cabin.

Advanced: This system includes internet connection, web browsing through spoken words, and so on. The future will unfold itself to give a further boost to technology when there will be many autonomous cars on the roads of the world. You may ask for directions, find a seat in a restaurant, and even find a suitable parking space while you are fully focused on the road. You are not taking your eyes off the road. You can call up the notes application and dictate your ideas and thoughts. You may call for weather updates voiced out without your having to look in the direction of the prompting screen. One may request one's favourite number over a voice message and get to listen to one's favourite music or podcast.

In-car speech recognition has come about because it gives you directions, the facility to send emails, make calls, and play your favourite music.

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You simply press the voice button that is fixed on your steering wheel and you can navigate between controls mentioned in the playlist. You can navigate to the nearest supermarket or the gas station. You can even send text messages to an important person who you think must be waiting for your message. If you glimpse the text message on the infotainment screen, one press of the switch will let the system read out the message for you.

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Practifi Sets Sight on Powering the Future of the Wealth Management Industry

CHICAGO, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Practifi, a performance optimization platform for the wealth management industry, today announced the company has evolved its brand to align with its growth, vision and suite of new platform capabilities. Practifi's forward-looking solutions are driving the future of wealth management across the spectrum, with the firm's platform offerings addressing the ever-expanding needs of the RIA market and enterprise market.

In the past nine months, Practifi built more functionality and features on its platform to further support the RIA industry, while expanding its platform to help enterprise clients achieve their business goals and drive efficiencies. Practifi's previous and upcoming product releases build off the platform's brand evolution and will continue to include new solutions designed with both enterprise and RIA firms in mind.

Newer platform capabilities include:

Practifi also has an open API that allows for deeper, more custom integrations with industry-leading partners to help both RIAs and enterprise firms build their ideal tech stack.

Adrian Johnstone, President, and Co-Founder of Practifi said, "We want to awaken the industry to the possibilities available through better technology and partnerships, transforming data into insights, action and excellence at scale. We want to help wealth management firms go beyond the traditional CRM and redefine what's possible."

Practifi's platform and brand evolution align with the firm's aspirations to power the future of wealth management. Built on the world's No. 1 enterprise cloud, Practifi is secure, reliable and massively scalable. With an extensive list of industry features and integration capabilities, Practifi has a library of ever-growing APIs and best-in-class integration partners.

Glenn Elliott, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of Practifi said, "This is the next chapter of our business after experiencing tremendous growth since being here. We've set our sights on building better technology and challenging conventions for better results that move the wealth management industry forward." Johnstone added, "We're deeply proud to have helped so many firms and clients solve their CRM needs and grow their business. As the industry and our clients continue to grow, we want to grow alongside it. That means pioneering bold ideas that power the future of wealth management. With our new approach, we aim to 'power more possibilities'."

About Practifi

Practifi is the performance optimization platform purpose-built for the wealth management industry. Practifi empowers teams to automate workflows, create rich client records, and access advanced analytics in a unified experience. With comprehensive APIs, a range of specialist wealth industry integrations, and an ecosystem of hundreds of integrated apps, our platform centralizes data and gives greater visibility across organizations. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with offices in Sydney, Australia, Practifi enables organizations across the globe to deepen loyalty with their clients and pioneer the future of wealth management. To learn more, visit practifi.com.

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The play KAndre Miller made late in the first period of Wednesdays meaningless Rangers-Canadiens game was not surprising.

Not to the Rangers teammates and coaches whove seen Miller grow in confidence to match his outstanding skill set this season. Not to the coaches from his amateur career who helped him transform from a big, rangy forward into a potential top-pair, shutdown defenseman. And not to his old friends and teammates who know that underneath Millers cool exterior theres a hard-charging, focused young man who seemingly wont be denied his place as a top NHL defenseman.

When you think youre by him, Cole Caufield said, you find out pretty quick youre just not.

The Rangers are in the playoffs, non-bubble version, non-preliminary-round version, for the first time since 2017. Of the 20 guys who are likely to suit up for Game 1 next week, this will be the first NHL postseason for 10. And outside of Igor Shesterkins surefire Vezina Trophy performance this year, none of the Rangers young players has improved more than Miller, the 22-year-old who has solidified one of the best top-four defense corps in the league.

He keeps the serious, professional look, said Tony Granato, Millers coach for two years at University of Wisconsin. That emotion and energy is controlled. But I know how much he loves it.

Millers evolution as a defenseman began just five years ago. He arrived in Plymouth, Mich., to the U.S. National Team Development Program, in 2016 as a bit of a tweener a rangy, athletic player who played mostly forward but also some defense.

I remember at tryout camp seeing him play a scrimmage at forward and one at D, said Nick Fohr, who has coached defensemen in the USNTDP program for the past decade. I was coaching the 99s (birth year) then, and (Danton) Cole and Chris Luongo had the 2000s. By the time Seth (Appert) and I got KAndre the next year, he was a defenseman full time.

Fohr said Miller excelled at closing out opposing players on the rush, even in the earliest stages of learning to be a defenseman. The way we defended line rushes, he was able to close plays out and do most of it on instinct angling, either forwards or backwards, Fohr said. He was so good at doing that, hed get on top of people super fast. Then you had to teach him the D-zone aspect. Pucks in the corner, heres what you need to do. He had to learn how to do a lot of that stuff. He had a good base in year one. He was such a quick learner and picked up on those skills so quickly.

Fohr and Appert, who is now coaching the Sabres farm team in Rochester, fielded their usual inquiries from amateur scouts. Miller was still considered a raw prospect, but the way he picked up the nuances of being a defenseman and added them to his game throughout the USNTDP season didnt go unnoticed. He was the No. 31 ranked North American prospect by Central Scouting midseason and moved up to No. 23 before the draft, where the Rangers took him 22nd.

I remember talking to some scouts that year. Everybody wanted to compare KAndre to (Sabres defenseman) Mattias Samuelsson, who was also at the program, Fohr said. Mattias was going to play you could see the maturity. KAndre had a higher ceiling, a chance to be a top-pair NHL guy, but if things go sideways, he could spend a lot of time bouncing from team to team. There was more unknowns with KAndre at that time. How good can this be? It was only a year and a half that hed played the position so I had all these scouts asking questions. You couldnt stamp it then. There were huge factors that had an impact on where hed end up.

Hes fun to coach. He had so much to learn and it was a challenge because you didnt want to overwhelm him. And we had our moments. There were some times he didnt like me too much, Im sure. We had this picture of where he could go and what he could be and honestly, hes exceeding it already. And hes going to continue to get better. You can see hes got more to add to his game. As that comes together, hes going to be really, really good.

After the draft, it was on to Granato and Wisconsin. Miller was definitely a defenseman and definitely someone the Rangers held in high regard among their growing stable of prospects. In Madison, he started to show some of the offensive flair hes let out from time to time in the past few months with the Rangers.

Frankly, we needed that from him because of how our team was structured, Granato said. He didnt get much power-play time at the program, but we needed some offense from him. They were hard on him about the basics, learning where to be, what to do without the puck. It was great for his development. When he got to us, we had to turn him loose.

Miller posted 12 goals and 40 points in 62 games at Wisconsin, with the Rangers player development team keeping in close contact. Tanner Glass, Jed Ortmeyer, they had a really good plan on what they thought KAndre could be, Granato said. And hes ahead of schedule. Hes already surpassed whatever expectations they had for him in year two, Im sure.

Miller had a very strong rookie season in 2020-21. It can be that second season where theres stagnation for a young defenseman, as he is asked to do more, gets sheltered less and the adrenaline of that first season wears off. Add in a new coaching staff, and it was understandable for Miller to have the lull he had the first three months of this season, as many of his teammates did in getting their bearings under Gerard Gallant and assistant Gord Murphy, who runs the defense.

You could see plays like the one Wednesday from Miller, but they usually came when he was trying to erase his own mistakes. Mistimed pinches or mentally getting ahead of himself on a play thinking instead of acting and pucks were coming off his stick to opposing players at an unpleasant rate.

Since Christmas, though, Miller has been perhaps the most dependable Rangers defenseman.

Courtesy Evolving-Hockey, here are the expected-goals percentages at five-on-five for the Rangers six most-used defensemen before and after Christmas:

45.07

51.46

45.52

50.39

54.03

47.99

52.20

47.85

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42.73

44.15

36.32

49.83

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Its the same as it was when he came to us, or when he went to Wisconsin: You have to learn the level before you can apply the knowledge at that level, Fohr said. Watching all the guys Ive had move on to that level, its impressed me to watch and see how quickly they pick things up. They all have those moments when theyre in the NHL, then theres a lull. It wouldnt shock me that he had that in his second season, and then things take off again.

That development process that happens here happens there too. For him to pick things up, start to accelerate and become a more dominant player at that level is not a surprise. Hes probably done it a little faster than I thought he would, to be honest.

The confidence that comes with knowing the defensive keys has allowed Miller to be more confident joining the rush and showing some of that skill at the other end of the ice. His tricky shootout goal to beat the Bruins on Feb. 15 was one moment.

His overtime winner to beat the Sabres last month was another.

Yeah, I saw that one, Granato said. It was against my brother (Don, the Sabres coach), so I definitely heard about it. And maybe they need to move him up the shootout list.

Caufield was with Miller at the U.S. program and for a year at Wisconsin. Caufield has had a whirlwind year-plus in the NHL, going from making a Stanley Cup Final in his first season with the Canadiens to the AHL in the first half of 2021-22 to a surge since Martin St. Louis took over as coach. Hes kept in touch with Miller along the way and sees what his old friend is developing into.

Every time I catch a game of theirs, I see him on the ice against the other teams top players, Caufield said. It shows how far hes come in such a short time. We always knew how good he was, even when he was still new to being a defenseman. And now hes playing big minutes on a pretty good team. It says a lot about him as a person and a player. The skys the limit for him.

(Top photo of Rem Pitlick and KAndre Miller: Bruce Bennett / Getty Images)

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[Shenzhen, China, April 27, 2022] Informa Tech successfully held the "Towards F5G Evolution, Promoting Industrial Prosperity" Summit during the 2022 Huawei Global Analyst Summit. At the Summit, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Globe Telecom, MTN Group, and Huawei jointly proposed the F5G industry evolution initiative, calling on all industry stakeholders to work together to define F5G evolution directions and standards and boosting the prosperity of the fixed network industry.

ETSI, CAICT, leading operators, and Huawei delivering keynote speeches

In 2020, ETSI officially released the Fifth-Generation Fixed Network (F5G) to solve the issues of fragmentation and unclear generation in the fixed network industry, taking the global fixed network industry into the fast lane. In the future, XR, holographic imaging, and naked-eye 3D services will be a common sight in homes and enterprises, the industrial field will require higher network reliability, and green, low-carbon, and sustainable development will be high on the agenda. All of this will place new demands on F5G networks, making the further strengthening of F5G network capabilities a major focal point for the industry.

Luca Pesando, Chairman of ETSI's ISG F5G, shared the progress of defining F5G Advanced standards at the Summit. He said: "The ISG F5G develops smoothly with its publication of F5G Release 1 in the first mandate. Now it's the right time to discuss the evolution of F5G to the next level 'F5G Advanced' in its second mandate. '"

Ao Li, Chief Engineer of CAICT, said: "Currently, F5G not only needs to be deployed on a large scale based on application driving and technology matching, but also to be continuously evolved to contribute to the long-term development of the digital economy."

"The broadband industry has seen rapid development since the release of the F5G standard," said David Wang, Huawei Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board. "Gigabit access has become universal for homes in China and many developed countries around the world. Huawei has developed new fiber to the home (FTTH) solutions to improve the network experience of home users. In addition, Huawei's innovative fiber to the office (FTTO) and fiber to the machine (FTTM) solutions have created many more use cases for optical networks. Looking ahead to 2025, all industry players should work together to drive F5G evolution and satisfy home, business, and industrial needs for higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more connections. This is why we proposed F5.5G."

David Wang delivering a keynote speech

F5.5G will create greater value than F5G in four ways:

Moving forward, Mr. Wang called on the industry to reach a consensus on F5G evolution, and work together to shape a thriving industry ecosystem and bring network technologies to maturity.

Leading operators such as China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Globe Telecom, and MTN also shared the scenario requirements and business practices of F5G evolution, and expressed their intention to jointly evolve to F5G and enrich F5G service scenarios. At the end of the Summit, all participants proposed the formulation of the F5G Evolution Industry Vision White Paper, calling on all parties in the global fixed network industry to jointly promote F5G evolution, boost industry prosperity, and create greater value for social development.

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ETSI, CAICT, Leading Operators, and Huawei Jointly Propose the F5G Industry Evolution Initiative - Huawei

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Tribune Business Editor

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A Bahamian digital payments provider yesterday predicted it will this year top the $130m worth of transactions it settled in 2021, and said of this shift: This is not going to be the norm; it is the norm.

Jeffrey Beckles, Island Pays managing director, told the Eleuthera Business Outlook conference that the increasing uptake of digital payments was confirmed by a recent Central Bank briefing thatrevealed a 13 percent increase in this method of transaction settlement. Yet automated teller machine (ATM) withdrawals had declined by 11 percent over the same period, indicating reduced reliance on cash.

With the COVID-19 pandemic having accelerated the transition to a digital Bahamian economy, Mr Beckles said small and medium-sized businesses in particular needed to embrace the disruption rather than fight it and adopt the new technology to become more efficient and effective with their payment methods.

The Bahamas has over the years been working diligently to get our economy to perform at an optimum level in a sustained way, he explained. One thing we have not done well is to evolve. We need to become creatures of evolution. If we dont change, theres a common remark for us: Roadkill. We must evolve. The reality of this evolution for us as far as digital payments are concerned is digital adaptation.

Arguing that The Bahamas must adapt at the same speed as the rest of the world, or face being left behind and becoming uncompetitive, the Island Pay chief said COVID-19 - and its lockdowns and associated other restrictions - had brutally exposed just how many companies were lagging when it came to embracing technology and digital payments.

Mr Beckles said surveys conducted during the pandemic disclosed that 50 percent of Bahamian businesses had no capacity to restart operations because they lacked digital integration, while 81 percent were unable to accept online payments - a percentage that has since since significantly declined.

And, while there are more cell phones in The Bahamas than its 400,000-strong population, he added that less than 15 percent of those cell phones are used to conduct commerce. Yes, its a problem, but its a huge opportunity.

Your cell phone will become the most important device you ever own, Mr Beckles, suggesting that desktop and laptop computers may become obsolete. Your life is going to be centred around the quality of your phone. Youre going to be able to manage every aspect of your life from your cell phone. Your cell phone will become a heartbeat of your existence.

With cell phones able to control a homes temperature and other functions, the Island Pay managing director added: Digital payments will not become the norm; digital payments are the norm. However, the failure of many Bahamian businesses to adapt was driven home on a recent trip to Eleuthera when he was unable to pay for fuel at two separate gas stations because they did not accept credit card payments.

Arguing that both businesses were losing revenue, and incurring a huge opportunity cost, Mr Beckles said that by switching to digital payments they would be able to eliminate the 5-7 percent card fees and reduce the costs associated with transactions by 60 percent. The costs and security risks in handling cash would also be reduced, if not eliminated.

We settled over $130m in digital payments in 2021 and still didnt do a lit of things, he added of Island Pay. Thats a significant effort in a very dismal environment, especially when the adoption is low. We anticipate topping that in 2022......We have a client today where revenue, over a six month period after they went digital, improved by 20 percent. Think about that.

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If youve read any of the more recent Axiomatics articles, we have highlighted the rapid evolution of the authorization market.

We see it daily more organizations realize their current or traditional approach to authorization isnt in line with the reality of modern access control considerations.

Nowhere is this growth illustrated more clearly than in the recently published KuppingerCole Market Compass for Policy-Based Access Management. The Axiomatics team is pleased to be featured as a vendor in this report.

The report, written by senior analyst Graham Williamson of KupppingerCole Analysts AG, talks not only about how the authorization space has evolved, but also the challenges that have arisen as a result. These challenges are acutely felt by established enterprises, facing a considerable task in keeping pace with the rise of more agile competitors while at the same time trying to modernize and protect legacy systems and applications.

The report rightly identifies that this reflects how and why established enterprises are looking to expedite their digital transformation initiatives and embrace a mix of infrastructure (including public or private cloud) to become more modern.

The Market Compass highlights that theres no one size fits all approach to PBAM. What authorization looks like to support one cloud application versus hundreds of apps living in a cloud-native environment that must adhere to strict regulations, will have different considerations.

As a result, there are three takeaways we want to emphasize in this report:

What we hear from organizations today is that theyre on a journey of putting the right foundational elements in place to begin modernizing their authorization and policy-based access management approach. This can include implementing an identity-first reference architecture that supports a Zero Trust strategy.

With this strategy in place, theres a realization that homegrown authorization solutions cannot keep pace with modern cybersecurity and compliance requirements.

Enterprises must take the right steps forward to enable a modern approach to authorization that can be adopted at the pace of the business.

This means adopting a proven deployment methodology and process that leads to a unified authorization strategy. KuppingerCole provides an example of what this could be in page five of the Market Compass.

As mentioned in the report, Axiomatics is a respected pioneer in this market.

Weve delivered authorization implementations for many of the worlds largest organizations, whose journeys started in what the Market Compass refers to as the traditional approach to PBAM.

As the market has adopted cloud-native infrastructures, Axiomatics has done the same and has delivered many cloud-native implementations. This report reaffirms that supporting PBAM for the modern enterprise must balance both traditional and modern infrastructures.

We believe Orchestrated Authorization is a successful approach to PBAM as it addresses many of the challenges outlined in the Market Compass it takes authorization out of silos, works with an enterprise-wide approach, and is scalable.

In addition, it ensures alignment across internal stakeholders, including development teams, business analysts and executives, with identity leaders and/or CISOs having the centralized view of the strategy.

You can read the full KuppingerCole Market Compass for Policy-Based Access Management, courtesy of Axiomatics.

For more about Orchestrated Authorization, take a look at our 2022 State of Authorization Report.

If youre in a hurry, weve summarized the key points in this executive brief.

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