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DFW Wants To Bling Out With Holographic Virtual Assistants, But I’m Thinking Most Airport Passengers Want Function, Not Form

Airports are by their nature some of the most linguistically diverse places on the planet – especially major hub airports that handle a lot of international flights. So applying technology like real-time translation and AI makes perfect sense for airport operators who have questions from travelers coming at them 24/7, and not all in the …

Local Miami Government Funds Test Of Real-Time, AI-based American Sign Language Messaging On Airport Digital Signage

The Miami-Dade regional government is investing $100,000 into a UK company that will trial AI-driven text to sign language content on digital signage screens around Miami International Airport. Signapse’s platform takes real-time data from airport information systems, converts it to text, and that text is converted to overlays or picture-in-picture windows on screens that have …

Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992

Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …