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The HTC Vive just got a $200 price cut
HTC has cut the price of its Vive virtual reality headset by $200, bringing the system’s cost down to $599. The discount is meant to stimulate consumer interest in the system, and make it easier to afford accessories, including the Vive Tracker that went on sale earlier this year. It also comes with a one-month free trial of HTC’s Viveport…
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Microsoft’s speech recognition system hits a new accuracy milestone
Microsoft announced today that its conversational speech recognition system has reached a 5.1% error rate, its lowest so far. This surpasses the 5.9% error rate reached last year by a group of researchers from Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research and puts its accuracy on par with professional human transcribers who have advantages like the ability to listen to text several times.…
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18 space suits from science fiction, from worst to best
Space suits are cool — and complicated. Earlier this week, my colleague Loren Grush launched her new series Space Craft by seeing what wearing one is like. The answer? Exhausting. Unsurprisingly, science fiction writers, movie directors, and prop-makers also love space suits — you’ll find them everywhere from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Have Space Suit — Will Travel, to the…
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Why shouldn’t you build a Chat Bot in a Weekend ?
Chat Bots have taken over the world in a bat of an eye. We all have witnessed them. But do we know how much effort and time it takes to build one? It seems pretty easy on the surface. Technically, you could actually build a Chat Bot in a weekend with all the tools that are available. But here is…
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Multiple Monitors With Multiple Pis
One of the most popular uses for the Raspberry Pi in a commercial setting is video walls, digital signage, and media players. Chances are, you’ve probably seen a display or other glowing rectangle displaying an advertisement or tweets, powered by a Raspberry Pi. [Florian] has been working on a project called info-beamer for just this use case, and now he has…
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Picture of day: Trucker Gets Hilarious Chest Tattoo Look Like He's a Tiny Man Driving His Own Body
Richard Batey of Immortal Art Studio created a hilarious chest tattoo for trucker Kenny Ollerenshaw that makes it look like he’s a tiny man driving his own body…(Read…) Source: Picture of day: Trucker Gets Hilarious Chest Tattoo Look Like He's a Tiny Man Driving His Own Body
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Period of innovations. Chatbots and the Legal Industry.
In a modern world, everything is developing with an extreme speed, and even legal industry is moving forward as times are changing. Innovations In Justice Industry New approaches and technologies are quickly starting to fill the justice industry. A new trend that is becoming highly popular nowadays is an in-house legal department. Recently, companies have started to hire lawyers that would…
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4K Video Footage Of A Total Solar Eclipse
« Shot in November, 2012 near Cairns, Australia a total of 1,990 images in ultra high definition were taken over the course of a few hours from two camera equipped telescopes. These images were then combined into one video. Totality itself was recorded in 507 images during 2 minutes (the duration of totality for this eclipse). »..(Read…) Source: 4K Video Footage Of…
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BlackBerry makes its first wearable play with AR smartglasses
BlackBerry has partnered with New York-based technology firm Vuzix to create AR glasses. The smart glass is powered by an Intel processor and the device comes with a touch pad, sensory speech recognition, and a GPS. The collaboration will put BlackBerry’s UEM software on the Vuzix M300 hardware. BlackBerry indicated earlier this year that it was interested in entering the…
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Why Forcing LinkedIn to Allow Scrapers Sets a Dangerous Precedent for the API Economy
A federal judge has ordered Microsoft’s LinkedIn to, within 24 hours, remove any technical barriers that prevented 3rd-parties from scraping the data off of any LinkedIn profiles designated as public (which must be like, all of them). As it sank in, I gasped. Source : ProgrammableWeb
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