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Global MVP Summit
Le Global MVP Summit est la réunion annuelle de tous les Most Valuable Professionnal chez Microsoft a Seattle. J’ai eu la chance d’être nommé MVP AI cette année pour l’activité que j’ai depuis longtemps autour des assistants conversationnels comme SARAH ou VISEO Bot Maker ainsi que l’usage des cognitives services. C’est l’occasion unique de discuter…
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Gorgeous VR Train Sim Rolling Line Gets Release Date, New Trailer
We like to refer to lots of third-person VR games as ‘train set VR’ here at UploadVR, but Rolling Line takes that definition very seriously. Rolling Line is the latest game from Gaugepunk Games, the team that brought you Frontier VR and Echo Grotto. It’s a model train simulator that lets you build and organize…
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Dockless bike-share service leaves France after ‘mass destruction’ of its fleet
Hong Kong-based bike-sharing service Gobee is shutting down in France after suffering what the company is calling “mass destruction” of its fleet. Gobee, which had 2,000 bikes in Paris and claimed around 150,000 users across the country, says 3,400 of the company’s bikes have been damaged and more than 1,000 have been stolen, according to…
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PIC: Every Stan Lee Marvel Movie Cameo Ever
This picture by reddit user l_l_l-illiam includes every single cameo that featured Stan Lee, starting with The Trial of the Incredible Hulk in 1989, right up to Thor: Ragnarok (2017.) If you want to see his cameo in Black Panther, you’ll have to go see the film because pictures of it are still not available…
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ARKit could bring your nightmares into your living room
I’ve never seen The Ring because I’m a huge baby, but I’ve now watched a terrifying augmented reality demo of its main villain Samara coming out of the TV screen, just like in the movie. A developer named Abhishek Singh, who has created lots of AR experiences, tweeted his idea of The Ring in AR.…
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DIY Peristaltic Pump Keeps the Booze Flowing
A few months ago we showed you a bar bot built by [GreatScott] that uses peristaltic pumps to food-safely move the various spirits and mixers around behind the curtain. The bar bot uses three of them, and at $30 each for pumps with decent flow rate, they added a lot to the parts bill. These…
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Microsoft expands Cortana for the smart home with IFTTT integrations
Today, Microsoft announced that its digital assistant, Cortana, will now work with IFTTT and a number of new smart home devices, such as the Ecobee, Honeywell Lyric, and LIFX. To set them up, just open Cortana on Windows 10 or launch the Cortana app and add the new products under the Connected Home menu. The…
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L’enfer de la maison intelligente
Sur Gizmodo, la journaliste Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) raconte comment elle a décidé de transformer son petit appartement de San Francisco en maison connectée. Elle s’est équipée d’un assistant vocal Echo d’Amazon, de lumières connectées, d’une cafetière connectée, d’un roomba, a branché sa brosse à dents, sa télé, son lit, un cadre photo… Un peu tout…
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Boston Dynamics’ newest robot learns to open doors
We knew this day would come sooner or later. Like the cloned velociraptors before it, Boston Dynamics’ newly redesigned Spot Mini has figured out how to open doors — with either its arm or face, depending on how you look at it. The team behind the Big Dog proves that it’s still the master of…
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Amazon SWA : Un service de livraison interne comme relais de croissance
L’information vient du Wall Street Journal qui décrit l’Amazon SWA comme un nouveau service qui devrait voir le jour assez rapidement, dans une phase d’essai, pour effectuer la livraison des colis de la palteforme vers les clients finaux. Aujourd’hui Amazon utilise des services tiers pour effectuer ses livraisons : En France on a La Poste,…
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