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This fall anime season is full of superheroes, fantasy, and furries
Aniplex This fall season, there are at least 44 new anime series starting, which is a significant challenge for even the most dedicated viewer. It’s time to prioritize. So here are eight of the most intriguing new series from this season, worth checking out for newcomers or longtime anime fans. Most of these shows will…
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Navigating Bill Gates’ brain with Netflix filmmaker Davis Guggenheim
Photo by Saeed Adyani / Netflix This week on our Vergecast interview series, The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel chats with filmmaker Davis Guggenheim on his new documentary Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, which premiered on Netflix earlier this month. Davis talks about the two years he spent filming with the Microsoft co-founder, as well…
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Google brings its Jacquard wearables tech to Levi’s Trucker Jacket
Back in 2015, Google’s ATAP team demoed a new kind of wearable tech at Google I/O that used functional fabrics and conductive yarns to allow you to interact with your clothing and, by extension, the phone in your pocket. The company then released a jacket with Levi’s in 2017, but that was expensive, at $350,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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