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Google uses computer vision and machine learning to index your photos
Author: Christen Arquette
Tags are so 2008. Google doesn’t want you to waste time tagging your photos, except for the people in them. The web giant wants to be able to recognize more abstract concepts like “sunset” or “beach” automatically and attach that metadata without further input. In yet another post-I/O update, Google+ photos now uses computer vision and machine learning to identify objects and settings in your uploaded snapshots. You can simply search for “my photos of trees” or “Tim’s photos of bikes” and get surprisingly accurate results, with nary a manually added tag in sight. You can perform the searches in Google+, obviously, but you can also execute your query from the standard Google search page. It’s pretty neat, but sadly Mountain View seems to have forgotten what cats look like.
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Google Hangouts upgrade removes ability to host Google Voice calls on your computer
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Google new Hangouts messaging service is quite impressive — it takes Google’s old and neglected Talk service and upgrades it with always-on communication, support for images, video calling, and much more. But for all of the improved service that Hangouts offers, if you upgrade the Google Talk service within Gmail to Hangouts (by selecting the “Try the new Hangouts” option in Talk’s menu), you lose some significant features — namely the ability to set your availability status and, more importantly, the ability to place or receive Google Voice calls from within Gmail. Essentially, the new Hangouts removes the option to host a Google Voice call on your computer, something that many users find convenient and necessary in their day to day…
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Dell’s Project Ophelia will turn any HDTV into an Android computer this May
Author: Buck Howard
Dell introduced Project Ophelia to the world at CES back in January, and now it’s revealed shipping timeframes for the Android-powered MHL stick. Ophelia will ship in May to developers, with cable providers and telecoms able to buy it in July. A consumer release will follow shortly thereafter. When it does ship, the tiny device (about the same size as a portable USB stick) will convert any HDMI-ready display into an Android computer. Naturally Google Play is built right in, so you’ll have access to your entire library of Android software. Essentially, Project Ophelia is what you make of it; it can act as a portable gaming console much in the same vein as Ouya. Or you can go the set-top box route and stream content from Netflix, Hulu, and…
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Welcome To Computer School, Class Of ’93
Author: Matthew Wilson
An amazing cut from an early 90s instructional video. Warning: you may never use a typewriter again.
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Insert Coin: Lightpack turns your computer display into an ambient backlight (video)
Author: Stacey Cook
While Philips did eventually bring its Ambilight technology to PC monitors, it wasn’t before others had decided to roll their own. Now you can add ambient backlighting to any computer display without any of the attendant soldering and Arduino-wrangling, thanks to the folks at Woodenshark. The team has built Lightpack, an Ambilight-esque system that’ll connect to a Windows, OS X or Linux PC and project the display’s colors onto the area surrounding the screen.
Plug the hockey puck-sized device into your computer, attach 10 LED modules to the back of your display and install the open-source software and you’re good to go. Once ready, you can even set up custom alerts to measure CPU temperature or email volumes, and even control the lighting with your smartphone or tablet. The team has asked for the unusually specific figure of $ 261,962 in order to fund an initial production run of 5,000 units, with early backers able to snag one of the units for $ 50 instead of around $ 90. Interested to watch it in action? There’s a video after the break, friends.
Source: Kickstarter
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The BeagleBone Black Is A New Single-Board Computer That Can Brew Beer
Author: Natalie Wood
While the Raspberry Pi is great for educating kids about computing, can it brew a mean beer? The BeagleBone Black can. Trevor Hubbard, an engineer at Texas Instruments, uses the new, next-gen board to control heat exchangers and monitors to handle beer temperature remotely.
The board itself is quite cool. It runs a AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with graphics accelerator and has two 46-pin headers for IO, making it ideal for monitoring and robotics. The board itself costs $ 45 and is available now.
It can run Android and Ubuntu linux and connects to the Internet via Ethernet or a USB Wi-Fi dongle. Interestingly, the entire board is open source, allowing you to download and tweak the design to suit your needs.
The company was founded by Jason Kridner and Gerald Coley, two TI engineers. The headers allow for multiple styles of input and output including serial connectivity, timers, and digital I/O. While not as inherently simple as the Raspberry Pi, it’s still a formidable board.
Hubbard, who recorded a video about his project, shows how he can control his beer temperature remotely using a BeagleBoard, the Internet, and a taste for bubbly hops. There is, I’d wager, not much more a man could ask for.
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Inside Google’s quest to build the Star Trek computer
Author: Jon Daniels
A lot of companies are invoking Star Trek these days, from Makerbot’s Replicator to the Tricorder Project, but Google seems to have taken it one step further. In Slate, Farhad Manjoo delves into Mountain View’s preoccupation with the omniscient, disembodied on-board computer that’s been a Trek hallmark since the ’60s. Apparently Google has adopted the computer as an ideal of human-computer interaction for Search. So far, the result is an increased emphasis on speech recognition and machine understanding — the skills a computer would need to carry on a conversation — as a way of expanding what a search engine can do. It’s a striking example of pop culture influencing modern tech, and good context for whatever’s unveiled at Google’s…
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Computer composition pioneer David Cope discusses his iPad app (video)
Author: Jade Kim
We most likely should not have actually been amazed when David Cope excitedly asked us if we ‘d such as to see his brand-new iPad app, as we began loading up our shoot for an open Engadget Program episode. After all, the previous UC Santa Cruz music professor’s name has, over the past numerous decades, become carefully tied to the world of computer-generated songs– it figures that the trip that began with punch cards would have ultimately caused tablets and smartphones.
Jambandit struck the App Store a couple of weeks back. It’s the first providing from Recombinant Inc., a little business co-founded by Cope in Santa Cruz a few years back as a “commercial extension of a body of [his] scholastic work.” His time in the field began during one specifically bad spell with writer’s block– tasked with writing an opera, Cope avoided standard paths with the earnest development of a new system for producing music, working to develop a software program that could generate scores in the designs of various author– a move that, unsurprisingly, opened a slew of questions on the topic of creativity.Com mentsSource: iTunes
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Sony Computer Entertainment to fuse Asian and Japanese units into one
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
As component of recent restructuring and cost-cutting efforts, Sony’s Computer Enjoyment (SCE) department will merge its Asian and Japanese operations into a solitary entity. The business stated that it would lead to a new management unit, with SCE Japan head of state Hiroshi Kawano taking the helm and the Asian unit’s ex-chief, Hiroyuki Oda becoming his replacement. Departments like marketing and finance will likewise merge in an effort to save cash, as the business wishes to stanch all the current blood loss and attempt to make its fiscal 2012 a throwback to the glory days.
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Sony Computer Entertainment to fuse Asian and Japanese units into one
Author: Angela Chin
As part of recent restructuring and cost-cutting efforts, Sony’s Computer Entertainment (SCE) division will merge its Asian and Japanese operations into a single entity. The company said that it would result in a new management unit, with SCE Japan president Hiroshi Kawano taking the helm and the Asian unit’s ex-chief, Hiroyuki Oda becoming his deputy. Departments like marketing and finance will also merge in an effort to save cash, as the company hopes to stanch all the recent bleeding and try to make its fiscal 2012 a throwback to the glory days.
Source: Sony
