Catégorie : Veille Technologique
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Kate Crawford : « l’IA est une nouvelle ingénierie du pouvoir »
Kate Crawford (@katecrawford) est la cofondatrice (avec Meredith Whittaker, @mer__edith) de l’AI Now Institute (@AINowInstitute, blog). Chercheuse à Microsoft Research, professeur à l’université de New York, elle est spécialiste de l’étude des implications sociales des systèmes techniques et notamment des effets du Big Data, des algorithmes et de l’Intelligence artificielle. À l’occasion de l’inauguration de la chaire invitée IA et…
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Microsoft Releases Vision AI Development Kit Based on Qualcomm’s Vision Intelligence Platform
During Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference in May of this year, the company unveiled a partnership with Qualcomm to bring about a developer kit for vision machine learning applications. Earlier this month, Microsoft and Qualcomm announced the release of the Vision AI Developer Kit, which includes a smart camera that uses Qualcomm’s Vision Intelligence 300 platform, as well as Microsoft’s…
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A new Pixel 4 XL leak shows off next-gen Google Assistant and face unlock
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Leaks of the Pixel 4, a phone that we already seem to know a lot about, just keep coming. Nextrift got its hands on what appears to be a production Pixel 4 XL, and it posted impressions and some new details, including what seems to be the first public look at the next-gen…
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Finally, a Rotary Cell Phone With Speed Dial
If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re the family IT department. We do what we can to help them, but there’s just no changing the fact that smartphones are difficult to operate with aging eyes and hands. When [sideburn’s] dad started complaining, he took a different approach. Instead of helping his dad adapt, [sideburn] stuffed modern cell phone…
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IKEA’s augmented reality app just got a whole lot cleverer
IKEA Place, the furniture giant’s augmented reality app, now lets you virtually place multiple pieces of furniture inside a room instead of just one. Source: IKEA’s augmented reality app just got a whole lot cleverer
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Amazon, Baidu, Cerence, Microsoft, Tencent, and 30 Other Companies Launch Voice Interoperability Initiative
Amazon announced today the creation of the Voice Interoperability Initiative, which a media release summarizes as “a new program to ensure voice-enabled products provide customers with choice and flexibility through multiple, interoperable voice services.” In short, this group is focused on enabling the simultaneous presence of multiple assistants on voice-activated devices. That means multiple wake words can be used anytime…
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Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital input signals, a company spokesperson tells TechCrunch. CTRL-labs raised $67 million according to Crunchbase. The startup’s investors include GV, Lux Capital, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Spark Capital and Founders Fund, among others. Facebook didn’t disclose how much they paid for the…
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Ce bol de céréales avec un haut-parleur intégré amplifie le bruit des céréales qui crépitent
Au petit-déjeuner, le son des céréales Kellogg’s qui crépitent est bien connu, et la plupart d’entre nous s’en souviennent de leur enfance. Et pour les petits comme les grands, ceux qui aiment toujours autant écouter les céréales faire du bruit, pourquoi ne pas augmenter le volume ? Voici l’idée insolite du jour, qui a forcément piqué notre curiosité ! Ce…
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Electronic “Sand Timer” Simplifies Board Game Timekeeping
Sand and electronics usually go together only slightly better than if you were using water, but this electronic sand timer seems to be an exception, if only in name. That aside, no sand was used in the construction of the device… unless you count the silicon in the electronics, which would entirely negate the previous sentence. However you want to…
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Impossible Burgers are hitting their first grocery stores tomorrow
Image: Impossible Foods The Impossible Burger, a meat-free burger that’s previously only been available in restaurants, will be available to buy in grocery stores for the first time this week. Starting tomorrow, September 20th, you’ll be able to buy the plant-based burger in 27 Gelson’s Markets stores in Southern California. Impossible Foods says it will bring the burger to more…
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