Catégorie : Veille Technologique
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Can a Bluetooth-enabled pill cap help you remember your medicine?
A new Bluetooth-enabled bottle cap called Pillsy is designed to prevent people from forgetting their pills. The device launches today for $39 and will remind you to take both medicine and vitamins, or really, whatever you need daily. Pillsy syncs with a companion iOS / Android app that pulls information about different drugs from an FDA database. You can enter…
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The Myth of a Superhuman AI – Backchannel
I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources, and humans will go extinct. Is this true? Smartness is not a single dimension Source : The Myth of a Superhuman AI – Backchannel
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itch.io: La caverne d’ali baba des jeux indépendants !
Vous connaissez Steam, et son quasi monopole sur le marche des jeux vidéos? Vous voulez passer à autre chose, qui respecte plus les créateurs, et qui n’ait quasiment aucune sélection à l’entrée? Bonne nouvelle ! Un tel site existe, et comme vous l’avez deviné, il s’agit d’itch.io ! itch.io : Un site destiné aux indépendants […] Cet article itch.io: La…
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A Robot Just Taught Another Robot How to Read
Baidu recently made an astonishing breakthrough in machine learning. They’ve achieved zero shot learning by programming a bot to teach another bot how to read. But in a surprise twist, they ended up with an AI that is able to understand language at amazingly complex levels. The post A Robot Just Taught Another Robot How to Read appeared first on…
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HTC’s squeezable U phone is apparently coming May 16th
HTC has announced an announcement: something’s happening on May 16th, according to a flyer sent out with the tagline “Squeeze for the brilliant U.” What on earth could that mean? Well, we’ve already heard word of an upcoming phone codenamed Ocean and likely to be officially called the HTC U, and it’s said to have a feature called “Edge Sense”…
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Dropbox ajoute le scan de documents à son app Android
Les utilisateurs de Dropbox sous Android ne jalouseront plus leurs homologues sous iOS quand ils les verront mettre à profit la fonction de sauvegarde de documents de l’application. Les trois principales étapes du fonctionnement de l’archivage de documents sur Dropbox, version iOS. La fonction « Sauvegarde de documents » de Dropbox est bien pratique… Source: <a href="Dropbox ajoute le scan de documents…
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3D capture startup raises $1.8 million USD
New York-based 3D capture startup GeoCV, raised $1.8 million in seed investment from Runa Capital, Emery Capital, and several New York angel investors. The company scans interior spaces using a 3D camera equipped smartphone and proprietary software. The space can be viewed in 3D from any angle in virtual reality (VR), or in a web browser. Unlike the company’s competitors like…
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Lightform : la réalité augmentée au service de la projection
Utiliser la réalité augmentée pour révolutionner la technologie de projection, c’est le défi relevé avec brio par Lightform, une start-up californienne. La marque est en effet parvenue à développer un outil qui permet de réaliser des projections sur n’importe quel type de surface. Les utilisateurs n’ont plus besoin d’une surface parfaitement plane pour pouvoir diffuser […] Source: <a href="Lightform :…
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Russian Humanoid Robot Firing Guns With Both Hands
This is a video of Russian humanoid robot F.E.D.O.R. (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) blasting away with two handguns. But don’t worry, guys, this totally isn’t a Terminator. « The robot of the F.E.D.O.R. platform showed skills of firing using both arms. Currently the work on fine motor skills and decision algorithms is underway, » [Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry] Rogozin wrote on…
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Go back in time with the Internet Archive’s collection of Macintosh programs from the 1980s
The Internet Archive is an indispensable resource for web users, backing up websites and documents, but also providing copies of historical software, such as the earliest home console and arcade games. Now, there’s a new collection that should delight anyone who grew up in the 1980s: an entire collection of Macintosh programs, which you can play right in your browser.…
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