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Self-Advocacy Tips for Promoting Your Work

Perficient

BuiltIn Boston , an online tech community, recently interviewed Hiral Shah , a lead technical consultant at Perficient, to discuss the importance for women to self-advocate and the benefits she has realized as a result. READ MORE: Perficient Celebrates Women in Technology. It made me feel really comfortable and appreciated.”.

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Striking a New Chord of Career Success in Consulting

Perficient

I recently got to virtually meet with associate technical consultant, Tom Phillips , to hear about his journey into the technology field. Tom originally went to school for music at Berklee College of Music in Boston (not the only consultant in the music scene ). Taking initiative, especially in your training, will take you a long way.

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Visa: US Contactless Payments Primed For A Big 2020

PYMNTS

This “public pilot” made contactless payments available on a few train lines, and only at 16 stations, including Grand Central Station and Union Station. In addition to being one of the world’s top-10 tourist attractions, Grand Central Station is the third-busiest train station in North America. So, when is it coming to Boston?”

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Retail Pulse: Nike Opens Atlanta SNKRS Pop-Up; FAO Schwarz Plans London Store

PYMNTS

Big brands are opening pop-up shops chock full of digital commerce technology and experiences for fans, and Nike is no exception. Items available for sale will range from the Air Force 1 drops to The Ten Collection — items that Nike said in an online post are “specific to Atlanta’s vibe.” He has photographed celebrities like T.I.

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23 VC-Backed Brick & Mortar Startups Changing The Face Of Main Street

CB Insights

Café X Technologies. Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. It’s the first cafe of its kind from Cafe X Technologies, which is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Total Disclosed Funding: $5.1M.

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AI-Driven Facial Recognition Is Coming And Brings Big Ethics And Privacy Concerns

CB Insights

The work, which considered how to identify masked faces in a crowd, addresses two related concerns at once: Most facial recognition technologies not only lack disguised-detection abilities, they also struggle to separate individuals from their backgrounds. The State of Artificial Intelligence. CREDIT: IEEE-ICCVW 2017.

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Brain-Machine Interfaces, Implantables, And Neuroprosthetics: 10 NeuroTech Startups Targeting Your Brain

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As the digital health sector matures from basic tracking apps into highly regulated medical devices, we are seeing bleeding edge technologies being developed that blur the lines between computers and biology. The technology will be used clinically for diseases such as depression or Alzheimer’s. Total Disclosed Funding: $100M.