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Google kills its Tango augmented reality platform, shifting focus to ARCore
Google announced today that it’s shutting down its high-end smartphone augmented reality platform, Tango, in order to focus on the more mass market ARCore product. The company had already confirmed this much to us when they announced ARCore in August, but now we have an official timeline for Tango’s demise. Read More Source: Google kills its Tango…
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Descript gets $5M to make sound editing like a word document
Right before jumping on the phone Friday afternoon, Andrew Mason, who then ran a walking tour startup called Detour and ran Groupon, was hand-correcting a transcription of a speech by John F. Kennedy — which was transcribed by some new software he and his team built in-house. But Descript, Mason’s new startup that’s spun out…
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A stretchable battery, powered by sweat, could revolutionize wearables
Scientists at Binghamton University in New York developed a breakthrough stretchy, textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery which could one day be used to power wearable devices. The post A stretchable battery, powered by sweat, could revolutionize wearables appeared first on Digital Trends. Source: A stretchable battery, powered by sweat, could revolutionize wearables
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Spice up your dice with Bluetooth
There’s no shortage of projects that replace your regular board game dice with an electronic version of them, bringing digital features into the real world. [Jean] however goes the other way around and brings the real world into the digital one with his Bluetooth equipped electronic dice. These dice are built around a Simblee module…
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Apple is reportedly buying Shazam
Apple is finalizing a deal to acquire Shazam, the app that lets you identify songs, movies, and TV shows from an audio clip, according to TechCrunch. The deal is reportedly for $400 million, according to Recode, which also confirmed the news. For Apple, the obvious benefit of acquiring Shazam is the company’s music and sound…
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Kinecting to a Post-Kinect World
Forever Friend of the Gallery, Vangos Pterneas, has some great advice on what to do in a Post-Kinect world. Kinect is dead! Now what? BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft has officially killed the Kinect. Today, Alex Kipman (creator of the Kinect) and Matthew Lapsen (XBOX Marketing) announced that Microsoft will stop manufacturing the Kinect sensor. Source: Co.Design…
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Google Released an AI That Analyzes Your Genome
Genome Analysis In the 15 years since the human genome was first sequenced in a historic scientific achievement, genomic sequencing has become relatively routine, with huge genomes being sequenced at incredible speeds. However, sorting through nucleotides and making educated guesses about their use can only get us so far. On December 4, Google released a tool that may help: DeepVariant,…
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Elle personnalise une figurine Funko Pop pour en faire un CV créatif
Étudiante à Sup de Pub, Marion Roby a eu l’idée de construire un CV créatif qui prend la forme d’une figurine Funko Pop à son effigie. Si la pop culture n’a aucun secret pour vous, alors vous connaissez sûrement les Funko Pop, ces personnages qui rendent hommage aux différents protagonistes de séries, de films, de…
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Google is making a computer vision kit for Raspberry Pi
Google is offering a new way for Raspberry Pi tinkerers to use its AI tools. It just announced the AIY Vision Kit, which includes a new circuit board and computer vision software that buyers can pair with their own Raspberry Pi computer and camera. (There’s also a cute cardboard box included, along with some supplementary…
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Amazon DeepLens : une caméra intégrant une Intelligence Artificielle pour les entreprises
Lors de sa conférence AWS re:Invent, Amazon a présenté ses solutions pour démocratiser l’Intelligence Artificielle et le Machine Learning auprès des entreprises. Au coeur du projet, une caméra baptisée la DeepLens, une plateforme de Machine Learning appelée SageMaker et des services pour la traduction et la transcription grâce à l’Intelligence Artificielle. Le grand public connaît…
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