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These snap-on filters improve your drone's pics
That's what happens when you're shooting with an in-the-air camera meant to shoot in automatic exposure. PolarPro co-founder Austen Butler stopped by the #TalkingTech garage here to show off the new filters, carrying case and landing gear for the Mavic. You can watch a replay here. Tech nerd alert: we shot the broadcast on the Mevo camera, which allows you to zoom in and out, via the smartphone app. The PolarPro filters start at $79.99 and come in groups of three.
'The Founder,' 'The Red Turtle' and more critics' picks, Jan. 20-26
Arrival Amy Adams stars in this elegant, involving science-fiction drama that is simultaneously old and new, revisiting many alien-invasion conventions but with unexpected intelligence, visual style and heart. The Eagle Huntress A portrait of a 13-year-old Kazakh girl from Mongolia who defies eons of tradition by learning to hunt with fierce golden eagles is a documentary so satisfying it makes you feel good about feeling good. The Edge of Seventeen Hailee Steinfeld gives a superb performance as a high-school misfit in Kelly Fremon Craig's disarmingly smart teen dramedy, the rare coming-of-age picture that feels less like a retread than a renewal. Elle Paul Verhoeven's brilliantly booby-trapped thriller starring Isabelle Huppert is a gripping whodunit, a tour de force of psychological suspense and a wickedly droll comedy of manners. The Founder Michael Keaton gives a performance of ratty, reptilian brilliance as Ray Kroc, the American salesman who turned a California burger stand into the global fast-food behemoth that is McDonald's, in John Lee Hancock's shrewd and satisfyingly fat-free biopic.
iPhone 8 Rumors: Next Apple Smartphone Release Date Could Feature Face Recognition, 'Wraparound' Screen
The iPhone 8 could include face recognition and a "wraparound" screen design, analyst Timothy Arcuri of Cowen and Company said, according to Business Insider. Arcuri predicts three iPhone models later this year, according to a research note circulated to Cowen and Company clients. The next iPhone 8 is referred to in the note as the "iPhone X." The note says one of the models, the iPhone X, will be a 5.8 inch OLED iPhone 8 with a "wraparound" "fixed flex" screen design with embedded sensors, according to Apple Insider, who also obtained the note. The model is rumored to come with features such as, face recognition.
Vizio devices now take voice commands from Google Home
Vizio's living room devices already play nicely with Google services, but wouldn't it be nice if you could use Google voice control as well? All of Vizio's SmartCast-equipped devices, including recent TVs, soundbars and speakers, just got support for Google Home. If you want to watch a movie on Netflix, you don't even have to wake your TV -- say the right words to Google's smart speaker and it'll start playing on your set. You can also pause, skip songs and tweak the volume without touching a button. If you're willing to buy Google Home, you're not dependent on busting out a phone or tablet to get the most out of Vizio's ecosystem.
IoT Dev Test @ThingsExpo @TechWell #IoT #M2M #API #AI #ML #Agile
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at Javits Center, New York City, is co-located with 20th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo 2017 in New York and Silicon Valley.
Good models Bad data Bad analysis
One of the key themes in Numbersense is the relationship between models and data. Think of data as inputs to models which generate outputs (predictions, etc.). A lot of the dialog in the data science community revolves around models, or algorithms that implement underlying models (random forests, deep learning, etc.). But there are countless examples of applying good models to bad data, resulting in bad outputs. I just finished teaching a class about Analytical Models at Columbia.
Big data is driving AI across media
Access from devices to cloud AI APIs is the game changer providing highly powerful and scalable real-time capabilities for processing data. The concept of'machines thinking like humans', has moved beyond theory thanks to the increase in โ and increase in access to โ massive amounts of unstructured multimedia combined with the low cost of high-power, specifically cloud-based, computing. Essentially, if it weren't for big data there would be no artificial intelligence. "There's a been a huge influx of data with everyone feeding sound, text and imagery over social media which has accelerated our ability to try to find ways to process and understand it," says Ian Hughes, analyst at 451 Research. "Traditional processing and analytics are too slow since it doesn't scale, so research has been pushed into AI as a way of dealing with data."
Google isn't dead and these are the people still using it the most
For many, Google may still be seen as the punchline to jokes about failed social networks, but the Google product still has a large and loyal following -- just not necessarily among the groups you might think. And, for better or worse, Google is still invested in supporting the network and its users. The company announced Tuesday that it's officially phasing out the site's "classic" design in favor of a redesigned look that emphasizes photos and minimizes the amount of white space. SEE ALSO: Hey, Siri: How'd you and every other digital assistant get its name? The redesign was actually unveiled last year, but up until now the company allowed users to switch back to the old design.
Siri's creators say they've made something better that will take care of everything for you
In an ordinary conference room in this city of start-ups, a group of engineers sat down to order pizza in an entirely new way. "Get me a pizza from Pizz'a Chicago near my office," one of the engineers said into his smartphone. It was their first real test of Viv, the artificial-intelligence technology that the team had been quietly building for more than a year. Everyone was a little nervous. Then, a text from Viv piped up: "Would you like toppings with that?"
How a robot wrote for Engadget
John McCarthy, the late computer scientist who first coined the term "artificial intelligence," famously said: "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more." What was once cutting-edge AI is now considered standard behavior for computers. As I write this, my computer is continuously performing millions of tasks, caching files, managing RAM and balancing CPU loads. The algorithms behind many of these operations would have been considered AI years ago. Last year, I looked into how well neural networks -- programs that behave like a scaled-down version of your brain's neurons -- are able to write.