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Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub
Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently. GitHub is a vast code…
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Participer à des projets innovants ?
Le salon Vivatech 2018 ferme ses portes, et j’ai été très fier de contribuer avec VISEO au succès de Djingo, l’assistant vocal d’Orange, connecté à un Miroir Interactif. Orange permettait de tester sur son stand une expérience personnalisée: reconnaissance vocale, visuel, faciale, age, sentiments, etc … Voici une petite présentation qui a été filmé par…
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Elle réalise son autoportrait dans 50 styles de dessins animés différents
L’illustratrice Sam Skinner s’est amusée à revisiter son propre autoportrait en s’inspirant du style de 50 dessins animés et bandes dessinées célèbres. Un gimmick désormais connu… mais toujours aussi distrayant et efficace ! Si vous repensez à votre enfance, il y a forcément un ou plusieurs dessins animés qui vous ont marqués. Pour Sam Skinner,…
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Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One, a wildly ambitious smartphone
Come for the holograms, stay for the modules Continue reading… Source: Hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One, a wildly ambitious smartphone
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Tiny Sideways Tetris on a Business Card
Everyone recognizes Tetris, even when it’s tiny Tetris played sideways on a business card. [Michael Teeuw] designed these PCBs and they sport small OLED screens to display contact info. The Tetris game is actually a hidden easter egg; a long press on one of the buttons starts it up. It turns out that getting a playable…
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Microsoft acquires conversational AI startup Semantic Machines to help bots sound more lifelike
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Semantic Machines, a Berkeley-based startup that wants to solve one of the biggest challenges in conversational AI: making chatbots sound more human and less like, well, bots. In a blog post, Microsoft AI & Research chief technology officer David Ku wrote that “with the acquisition of Semantic Machines,…
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No one knows how Google Duplex will work with eavesdropping laws
In Google’s demonstration of its new AI assistant Duplex this week, the voice assistant calls a hair salon to book an appointment, carrying on a human-seeming conversation, with the receptionist at the other end seemingly unaware that she is speaking to an AI. Robots don’t literally have ears, and in order to “hear” and analyze…
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We’re DOOMED: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Can Now Run Outside and Jump Autonomously! [Video]
We’re doomed. DOOMED. Watch: Atlas is the latest in a line of advanced humanoid robots we are developing. Atlas’ control system coordinates motions of the arms, torso and legs to achieve whole-body mobile manipulation, greatly expanding its reach and workspace. Atlas’ ability to balance while performing tasks allows it to work in a large volume…
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