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MIT develops a speech recognition chip that uses a fraction of the power of existing technologies
MIT announced today that it’s developed a speech recognition chip capable of real world power savings of between 90 and 99 percent over existing technologies. Voice technology has, of course, become nearly ubiquitous in mobile devices, thanks to the exponential growth of smart assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Home – but the new chip could […]
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Une horloge magnétique et minimaliste pour décorer votre salon
En Suède, le studio Flyte a mis au point STORY, une horloge design et minimaliste qui fonctionne grâce à un système de magnétisme. Envie d’une horloge originale pour décorer votre salon ? En Suède, le studio Flyte a imaginé STORY, une horloge magnétique et minimaliste vraiment pas comme les autres. STORY prend la forme d’une […]
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Rogue One’s visual effects studio shows how it blows up planets
Destroying a planet is easy if you’ve got a Death Star (and even easier with Starkiller Base) but here on Earth we have a slightly tougher time. In our case, it’s up to the visual effects team at Industrial Light and Magic to destroy entire worlds, building cities and mountains up inside their computers, before […]
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Announcing TensorFlow 1.0
Posted By: Amy McDonald Sandjideh, Technical Program Manager, TensorFlow In just its first year, TensorFlow has helped researchers, engineers, artists, students, and many others make progress with everything from language translation to early detection of skin cancer and preventing blindness in diabetics. We’re excited to see people using TensorFlow in over 6000 open-source repositories online. […]
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The Vaquform is a desktop vacuum former for rapid prototyping and custom costumes
Vacuum forming is a manufacturing technique that’s been around for a while. You take a heated sheet of plastic, press it down onto the object you’d like to make a mold of, and then use a vacuum to suction down the sheet of plastic to accurately capture the exact details. It’s a pretty analogue process […]
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Super Materials Are Leading Us to a New Age in Science
It’s no secret that graphene is a pretty incredible super-material. Discovered in 2004, graphene is, simply, a layer of carbon atoms that is only one atom thick. It is ultra-light, yet it’s 200 times stronger than steel (some even claim that it is the strongest material on Earth). It’s electrically conductive but biodegradable, and it can […]
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Dungeon Master and Players Narrate Episode of 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon
This is one of the best thing I’ve watched in while. If you ever watched the cartoon or played the game, I suspect that you’ll enjoy watching this quite a bit! Dungeon Master Joel sets Grant, Greg, Kirran, Eddie, and Gooey on the grandest quest ever to be played in a Dungeons and Dragons game. […]
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The Most Interesting Xiaomi Products
Xiaomi (pronounced as shao-mee) is a privately owned Chinese electronics company with headquarters in Beijing. Being the world’s 4th biggest smartphone manufacturer it also develops and sells mobile apps, laptops, and other consumer electronics. When it comes to the said other consumer electronics, the only thing that would probably come to mind is Bluetooth speakers. However, this is […]
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Brilliant’s Control is poised to become a main control hub for smart home devices
With the surge of the smart home appliances and gadgets, the Brilliant Control is a San Mateo, California-based startup’s answer for the all-in-one smart home control panel. The Control is designed to easily replace a conventional light switch, with an installation designed to take no longer than 5-10 minutes. In my mind, the most important aspect about a product like this is… […]
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Pinterest introduces Lens, a Shazam for objects in the real world
Pinterest today introduced Lens, a new visual search tool that uses machine vision to detect objects in the real world and suggest related items on the service. Lens, which is now in beta, is a tool inside the Pinterest mobile app that functions as a kind of Shazam for objects. Point it at food, furniture, […]


