Étiquette : cms
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Finally, a Rotary Cell Phone With Speed Dial
If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re the family IT department. We do what we can to help them, but there’s just no changing the fact that smartphones are difficult to operate with aging eyes and hands. When [sideburn’s] dad started complaining, he took a different approach. Instead of helping his dad adapt, […]
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IKEA’s augmented reality app just got a whole lot cleverer
IKEA Place, the furniture giant’s augmented reality app, now lets you virtually place multiple pieces of furniture inside a room instead of just one. Source: IKEA’s augmented reality app just got a whole lot cleverer
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Amazon, Baidu, Cerence, Microsoft, Tencent, and 30 Other Companies Launch Voice Interoperability Initiative
Amazon announced today the creation of the Voice Interoperability Initiative, which a media release summarizes as “a new program to ensure voice-enabled products provide customers with choice and flexibility through multiple, interoperable voice services.” In short, this group is focused on enabling the simultaneous presence of multiple assistants on voice-activated devices. That means multiple wake […]
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Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital input signals, a company spokesperson tells TechCrunch. CTRL-labs raised $67 million according to Crunchbase. The startup’s investors include GV, Lux Capital, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Spark Capital and Founders Fund, among others. Facebook didn’t disclose how […]
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Ce bol de céréales avec un haut-parleur intégré amplifie le bruit des céréales qui crépitent
Au petit-déjeuner, le son des céréales Kellogg’s qui crépitent est bien connu, et la plupart d’entre nous s’en souviennent de leur enfance. Et pour les petits comme les grands, ceux qui aiment toujours autant écouter les céréales faire du bruit, pourquoi ne pas augmenter le volume ? Voici l’idée insolite du jour, qui a forcément […]
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Electronic “Sand Timer” Simplifies Board Game Timekeeping
Sand and electronics usually go together only slightly better than if you were using water, but this electronic sand timer seems to be an exception, if only in name. That aside, no sand was used in the construction of the device… unless you count the silicon in the electronics, which would entirely negate the previous […]
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Impossible Burgers are hitting their first grocery stores tomorrow
Image: Impossible Foods The Impossible Burger, a meat-free burger that’s previously only been available in restaurants, will be available to buy in grocery stores for the first time this week. Starting tomorrow, September 20th, you’ll be able to buy the plant-based burger in 27 Gelson’s Markets stores in Southern California. Impossible Foods says it will […]
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Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter
Mr. Shadow On September 12, NASA’s Juno spacecraft performed its twenty-second close flyby of Jupiter, careening down until it was just 8,000 kilometers (4,970 miles) above the gas giant’s clouds From that epic vantage point, Juno then snapped a stunning series of photos of the shadow of Jupiter’s moon Io on the planet. In other words, […]
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Descript Acquires Lyrebird and Lands $15 Million in Funding From Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint
TechCrunch reported this morning that Descript has acquired synthetic voice generation company Lyrebird and closed a $15 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint. Lyrebird is well known in the voice technology community for its online voice synthesis demo which enabled users to speak a number of phrases and the service would generate […]
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MouseAir Launches Fake Mice for Kitty Entertainment
One could argue the relative merits of cats versus dogs as the superior pet, but if you happen to be a cat person whose feline companion is in need of a bit more entertainment, MouseAir presents a very interesting solution. The device uses a camera and artificial intelligence via a Raspberry Pi to determine when […]
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