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chrome extension to obtain information from YouTube video

Flico is a platform which aims to fulfil user’s curiosity by predicting relevant information from a media. Suppose you are watching a movie and you want to know the location of a certain landmark in the scene, what do you do? Use Flico! It identifies and presents the landmark along with a map and street view of it. Not only that, it can also be used to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words that the user comes across while watching any video. Incredible isn’t it? Currently working only on youtube…

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Microsoft’s cortana is now just as accurate as humans

Robots are now just as good at transcribing speech as humans. According to a paper published yesterday, a team of Microsoft engineers in the Artificial Intelligence and Research division reported their system reached a word error rate (WER) of 5.9 percent, a figure that is roughly equal to that of human abilities. “We’ve reached human parity,” said Xuedong Huang, the company’s chief speech scientist. “This is a historic achievement.” After decades of testing, the milestone comes on the heels of last month’s ‘close but no cigar’ score of 6.3 WER…

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Major tech gaints team up to clear the air about AI

In 2014, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said in an interview that he believed that AI posed the biggest threat to human existence. That didn’t stop him from co-chairing a billion-dollar AI research nonprofit, but it did make people think about whether artificial intelligence could get out of hand. Now, five tech giants including Google and its DeepMind subsidiary, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM have come together to form Partnership on AI, a coalition dedicated to highlighting the best practices and ethical research in the field of artificial intelligence.…

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HTML 5.1 is Arriving and it will replace HTML5

The HTML 5.1 standard has been promoted from a “Release Candidate” to a “Proposed Recommendation,” the last step before it becomes a “W3C Recommendation” and officially replaces HTML 5 as the current HTML standard. As a Proposed Recommendation, HTML 5.1 is practically locked against major changes, and outside small tweaks here and there, we are currently looking at a 99.99 percent version of the upcoming HTML 5.1 standard. The vote to promote HTML 5.1 from RC to PR was approved in unanimity, a clear sign that major browser makers have…

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BlackBerry will no longer make its own phones

BlackBerry Limited today confirmed that it will no longer create its own phones, instead choosing to rely on hardware partners like China’s TCL Corporation. In a statement, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said “The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners.” He added, “This allows us to reduce capital requirements and enhance return on invested capital.” The news is hardly surprising. Since 2009, BlackBerry’s handset division has been in a terminal death-spiral, while devices running iOS and Android gained ground. Last year, Chen said that if…

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An app which will pay when you take foot step

WHAT IS SWEATCOIN? Sweatcoin converts movement into a currency that you can spend on real life goods, service and experiences, and makes movement more rewarding. Just download the app on an iPhone 5s or newer, and begin spending your steps on cool clothing, gadgets and experiences brought to you by our partners and other users like yourself. HOW SWEATCOIN WORKS? We track & verify your steps using your phone’s accelerometers and GPS location. Those steps get converted into Sweatcoins at a conversion ratio of 1,000 outdoor steps to 0.95 SWC.…

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New algorithm Which identifies the depressed individuals by their Instagram photos

  One of the curious things about color is that we associate it with emotions. Intuitively, we tend to link darker, grayer colors with negative moods and brighter, lighter colors with positive ones. Indeed, researchers have found that people suffering from depression prefer darker colors. That raises the fascinating possibility that it might be possible to diagnose depression  en masse by analyzing the photos people post to social-media sites such as Instagram. But how reliable could such an approach ever be? Today, we get an answer thanks to the work…

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Microsoft HoloLens will support new Windows 10 PC Next year

Microsoft HoloLens With the amount of muscle required to utilize HTC’s Vive or Oculus’ Rift, we might still be a few years away from penetrating the mainstream virtual reality market. Microsoft has other plans. Today at Intel’s developer conference, Windows chief Terry Myerson announced a partnership with Intel that will make all future Windows 10 PC’s capable of supporting (at least) mixed reality applications on the HoloLens. “All Windows 10 PCs next year will include a holographic shell,” Myerson said. Holographic shell, in case you were wondering, is the operating…

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Single 60TB Seagate’s SSD is the largest the world has ever seen

Seagate just showed up Samsung with its latest product: its new 60TB SSD is the largest capacity drive of its kind in the world, and holds four times as much as Samsung’s recent offering. Sadly, it’s not for you. The company is currently demonstrating the device as a solution for data centers that need reliable drives for long-term data storage, and it hopes to make it available sometime in 2017. It probably won’t be cheap either. For comparison, Samsung’s 15TB SSD drive, which went on sale earlier this month, costs…

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A ring that lets you feel your partner’s heartbeat is trolling at level 10

These days it’s easier than ever to stay connected to your loved one. You can call, text, email and video chat whenever you want, but none of it really compensates for them actually being there, especially if you happen to be far apart. But thanks to these rings you can now feel each other’s heartbeats no matter how much distance stands between you. They’re called HB rings and they’re created by TheTouch. The minimalist designs are made from stainless steel and there’s also a solid rose gold variety available. All…

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