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Meet the Man Creating Freakily, Disturbingly Realistic Masks
What does it take to make a face? Try $4,500. At Landon Meier’s studio, you can try on a new face for a day. Meier specializes in creating hyper-realistic (and hyper-expensive) masks that could easily pass for the real thing. Take a test run at being Walter White, or try on Mike Tyson for size—Meier’s…
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Dropbox Launches DBX Platform and New APIs
Dropbox has announced the launch of the DBX Platform, a suite of APIs and developer tools for building new capabilities on top of Dropbox. The company also announced the release of two new APIs; Metadata API and File Requests API. These new APIs are built on Dropbox API V2, the revamped API released in 2015…
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What Google doesn’t want you to know: Voice search is taking over display search, while Assistant…
What Google doesn’t want you to know: Voice search is taking over display search, while Assistant and chatbots are emerging The greatest jump in the history of search is happening under our eyes and Google is keeping pretty quiet about it. Photo by Álvaro Bernal on Unsplash Last year, Google announced and Hitwise estimated that around 58% of…
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Viseo développe un chatbot pour Direct Energie
En France comme ailleurs, les chatbots continuent de séduire les entreprises quel que soit leur secteur d’activité. Durant l’été (…) Source: Viseo développe un chatbot pour Direct Energie
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Google Cloud’s Natural Language API gets content classification and more granular sentiment analysis
Google Cloud announced two updates this morning to its Natural Language API. Specifically users will now have access to content classification and entity sentiment analysis. These features are particularly valuable for brands and media companies For starters, GCP users will now be able to tag content as corresponding with common topics like health, entertainment and…
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Remarkable E-ink Writing Slate Reviews – Great Tablet, But Not Ready for Prime Time
If that early buzz for the $600 Remarkable tablet had you wishing that you had gotten in on the early pre-orders, I have good news for you: It’s not ready yet. A handful of reviews were posted on Friday, and they show reveal that the Remarkable still has a way to go in the software department…
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Google’s new payment app for India uses sound to transfer money
Google has introduced a new payment app in India called Tez (the Hindi word for “fast”). Tez features a technology called audio QR that allows users to transfer money using sounds to pair two devices. Called the “cash mode option,” phones negotiate a connection using audio to identify the payer and payee. (The sounds should…
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Microsoft’s AI camera app Pix is now a business productivity tool
Microsoft Pix, the iOS camera app that leverages A.I. to help you take better photos, is venturing beyond being a tool for consumers with an update that now sees it able to assist with photos of business documents, whiteboards, post-it notes, and business cards. According to Microsoft, the additional support focused on office productivity made…
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Inside Zero Latency’s Las Vegas VR Arena At The MGM Grand
Melbourne, Australia-based VR company Zero Latency has partnered with the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino to launch its latest eight-player virtual reality gaming location in the U.S. The 2,000-square-foot arena, which opened last week, is the latest video game attraction for MGM’s Level Up gaming lounge. And it’s one of 20 Zero Latency arenas in…
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