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SXSW 2017: Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Bob Odenkirk, Seth Rogen & More Set As Featured Speakers

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South by Southwest has unveiled its list of featured speakers for the upcoming fest, which includes the cast of Veep, Seth Rogen and exec producers of AMC's, Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkrik, John Cena, and more. The fest, which runs from March 10-19, will feature discussions from fields in tech, film, music, television, business, literature, government and journalism. Check out the list below. Jessica Shortall (Social Impact) – Jessica is the Managing Director of Texas Competes, a coalition of more than 1,200 Texas companies making the data-driven case for Texas to be welcoming to LGBTQ people. This business-oriented voice has become a national model.


Logitech Zerotouch lets people communicate with their houses by talking to their car

The Independent - Tech

People can finally talk to their houses by shouting at their cars. Amazon and Logitech have announced that they will bring the Alexa voice assistant to the ZeroTouch app. That means that people can set up their phones in their car and use it to talk to the voice assistant without using their hands – and in doing so give instructions to everything from their lights to their heating. Logitech has long sold ZeroTouch, a special mount for people's phones that gives access to a personal assistant that can be used without being touch and so is intended to keep people from being distracted while driving. But the company has now announced that the app will include Amazon's Alexa, a voice assistant that can be used with a wide range of features.


Feast Your Eyes On This Awesome Collection Of Screenshots From Computer Role-Playing Games

Forbes - Tech

Some people love computer role-playing games (CRPGs) beyond all sense or reason – and we love them for it. Felipe Pepe is one of those people. He's currently in the final stages of completing an e-book on the history of CRPGs that will include detailed reviews and discussion of over 300 games. While he's at it, he's put together an incredible collection of CRPG screenshots that he's made available to all in a massive Flickr album. The CRPG album has between 14,000 and 16,000 screenshots from over 400 games.


Uber hires Nasa engineer to lead flying car project

The Independent - Tech

Uber has reaffirmed its flying cars ambitions by hiring former Nasa engineer Mark Moore. Moore has 30 years of experience at Nasa, and becomes the director of engineering for aviation at Uber Elevate. "I can't think of another company in a stronger position to be the leader for this new ecosystem and make the urban electric VTOL market real," said Moore, who published a white paper on vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (VTOL) back in 2010. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.


3 Ways You Can Help The World's Climate Scientists Right Now

Forbes - Tech

I often sit back and watch certain things quietly. This past week has been one of those moments. An article this weekend in the British media brought up the old and oft disproven argument about the"warming pause." However, as scientists dug into this latest desperate "Hail Mary" pass, it was apparent that there was more to this latest saga. My colleagues Phil Plait at Blastr and Andrew Freedman at Mashable have written excellent pieces laying out how scientists debunked these latest claims. They also fill in other pieces to this rather odd story.


The Artificially Intelligent, Body-Hacking Branding Of 2022

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But look five years down the road to 2022, and "branding" the way we understand it today may hardly exist at all. According to experts, the future is rife with personalized logos, brands built by artificial intelligence, and even brands literally living inside our bodies. Jez Frampton, global CEO of the branding agency Interbrand, describes it as the "Age of You." To eliminate friction between brands and consumers. Of course, this could be construed as a tremendous invasion of privacy--a dystopian vision in which the separation between who we are and what we buy dissolves into the ether.


Logitech's 4K webcam will make your chats more cinematic

Engadget

If you've got a stylist, makeup artist and really fast internet connection, you're ready for Logitech's 4K Pro Brio webcam. It not only comes with high-resolution 4K at 30 fps (4,096 x 2,160), but also HDR, a 5X digital zoom and infrared facial detection tech that works with Windows Hello logins. We're not sure about Logitech's claim that it's the first 4K webcam, but it's certainly one of the best -- and it should be, for $200. Streaming 4K video requires at least a 25-35 Mbps connection, so you'll likely need at least that (on the upload side) if you want to transmit your face over video chats. Another big issue is that Skype, Google Hangouts and other popular chat apps support a maximum 1080p video, and let's not even talk about the computing horsepower required for two-way, 4K HDR chat.


Bragi Boldly Goes Where Apple's AirPods Haven't Gone Yet

Forbes - Tech

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Silicon sleeves for the Bragi Dash, what founder Nikolaj Hviid calls an in-ear computer. Back in 2013 a Danish designer named Nikolaj Hviid took his prototype of wireless earbuds to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. to get some feedback.


Practical UseCases of Deep Learning Techniques… Part II

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The enormous and raging wave of change that has hit our world in the last decade, has got some of us thinking and others reveling in their glory. The internet and evolving technological practices have increased possibilities. Man and machine collaboration has got us introduced to automated virtual work and communication systems everywhere in the world. Deep Learning has given birth to several real-life applications that have lessened human control and involvement in several spheres of life. The immense popularity of the Deep Learning UseCases blog was enough encouragement to look at more such UseCases.


Vizio smart TVs watch their users while they watch TV, US state investigation finds

The Independent - Tech

Smart TVs are being used to monitor their viewers as they sit in front of them. Television maker Vizio and a subsidiary will pay millions of dollars in fines to settle allegations that it had been secretly tracking people's viewing habits and then selling that information on. The data was then used by marketing companies and data brokers for a range of things, including measuring how effective ad campaigns were and whether people watched them. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.