Gabb, a Lehi-based developer and marketer of kid-safe technology products, has relaunched its Gabb Maps, a navigation app now available on all of Gabb’s kid-specific smartphones.
“This launch reaffirms Gabb’s commitment to child safety through a framework of ‘Tech in Step’ by offering a map tool that grants kids independence and parents peace of mind,” Gabb said in announcing the offering.
Gabb Maps gives young children and teens freedom to explore while offering protection from explicit content and potential dangers present in other map platforms, the company said. Unlike many navigation apps, Gabb Maps is ad-free, and does not collect children’s data, except in an anonymous format to improve the navigation function of the app. Children’s data is never sold to third parties.
Gabb’s map application is driven by HERE, a Holland-based digital mapping platform used by customers that include e-commerce, transportation and logistics, global automakers and public-sector agencies. Map information is updated regularly to reflect changes and insure accuracy. It provides custom routing for pedestrian and bicycle navigation.
The Gabb Maps app blocks content from adult-only businesses, including vape shops, bars, liquor stores, strip clubs and sex boutiques, offering a more secure experience for kids. Parents can customize the map application with Gabb’s Parent-Enabled Essential app, available on all Gabb phones.
Gabb Maps is the latest addition to the company’s suite of software, phone and watch products, specifically designed for secure and reliable navigation and navigation for kids and teens.
MX Technologies Inc. has released its new Customer Analytics for financial services providers. The Lehi-based company’s app leverages enhanced transaction data and actionable consumer insights to help financial providers increase deposits and engagement by identifying cross-sell opportunities. MX said the app helps financial firms achieve a higher ROI on marketing spend and campaigns and helps predict and prevent customer loss. With Customer Analytics, organizations can gain a more comprehensive picture of their customers’ financial lives, allowing them to improve customer segmentation and marketing strategies using consumer-permissioned and enhanced transaction data. “Financial services providers have a tough assignment when it comes to piecing together disparate data to truly understand their customers and meet their needs,” said Nandita Gupta, chief product officer at MX. “MX’s Customer Analytics takes out the guesswork by providing actionable financial data intelligence in a single source.”
BambooHR, a cloud-based human resource platform based in Lindon, has announced the release of Employee Community, an internal communications hub, and Total Rewards, a compensation statement and retention tool, new resources for human resources professionals. Employee Community helps leaders keep employees informed, connected and engaged, BambooHR said. “We see the challenges leaders face when trying to manage internal communications and keep people informed and connected to the larger org, especially for remote employees,” said Brian Crofts, chief product officer at BambooHR. “With so many tools out there, important comms are quickly buried and hard to refer back to, but Employee Community brings important communications right into the BambooHR platform, where your people already come to submit time off and check their pay stubs.” Total Rewards improves employee satisfaction and retention by showing the full value of an employee’s compensation package.
FileShadow, a Provo-based digital asset management service platform for family history buffs, has announced the launch Person Detection and Custom Object Identification, features for tagging photos in its program. These features help genealogists identify people in photographs, making them searchable when organizing photos around an individual. The Person Detection feature leverages advanced technology so users can tag faces in photographs. With this feature, users select a photo in FileShadow and click “Detect Faces.” The app then identifies faces with a red outline box. “FileShadow goes beyond AI-based object identification,” said Tyrone Pike, FileShadow’s president and CEO. “FileShadow now can identify and name people in photographs. Of course, everything is searchable, so finding people later will be easy. FileShadow also provides a way to create custom regions so objects in a photograph like horses, dogs or buildings can be named.”
Recursion, a clinical stage biotech company in Salt Lake City, has introduced LOWE (large language model-orchestrated workflow engine), its new software designed to perform complex drug discovery tasks using a natural language interface. LOWE is powered by Recursion’s proprietary biological and chemical data and can orchestrate experiments using Recursion’s automated wet laboratories on the Recursion Operating System. “Recursion has spent the last 10 years building one of the world’s largest biological and chemical datasets, along with automated wet-lab and dry-lab tools that empower our scientists to move quickly to decode biology to discover and rapidly advance promising programs,” said Chris Gibson, co-founder and CEO of Recursion. “For the first time, we’ve taught large language models to use many of Recursion’s tools and data in the same way an expert scientist would, but much more simply and in a more scalable way.”
Shipley Associates, a Kaysville-based firm specializing in business development, training and consulting, has announced the launch of BD.ai, an initiative designed to combine artificial intelligence with established business development practices, marking a transformative step in the field of proposal development. With the initiative, Shipley provides professionals a comprehensive orientation and roadmap for adopting AI within their business development processes. “BD.ai comes at a pivotal time when AI technology has become widely available and useful in business development and proposal practices,” the company said in announcing the release of BD.ai. “Shipley recognizes the need for organizations to integrate these innovations to maintain a competitive edge in today’s dynamic business landscape.” BD.ai introduces a holistic approach to adopting AI in business development and is led by a team of experts who have actively accelerated proposal development with generative AI over the past year.
With the proliferation of deepfake AI technology able to create believable videos, realistic-looking photos and documents that appear legitimate, digital media authenticity firm Attestiv, based in Lehi, has updated its online platform to help organizations battle deceptive media. Simple to use, Attestiv’s enhanced detection tools are among the fastest and most reliable solutions to evaluate the legitimacy of digital materials, the company said. “With the explosion and commoditization of generative AI deepfakes, it is hard for most of us to fathom what 2024 has in store in terms of digital fraud and misinformation,” said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO of Attestiv. “Whereas deepfakes began by infiltrating social media, the time is now for businesses to take action so they do not become the next victim of this new breed of fraud. Attestiv’s flexible solutions make us the go-to validation partner in this era of digital manipulation.”