The Google Ara project noted they now have prototype modules to for both NVIDIA K1 and the Marvel PXA1928. These modules can be used to create a highlighly customizable cellphone. The project team states we can anticipate seeing these as part of the reference designs in the upcoming MDK v0.20 release. Project Ara is not an official Google product but rather a development effort … [Read more...]
Printed 3D Wrench Demonstrates New Era in Space Flight
Astronauts on the International Space Station used a zero-gravity 3D printer to produce a working socket wrench complete with ratchet action that was printed from digital plans emailed to the station by NASA mission control on Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspaTf-F9BU … [Read more...]
NVIDIA 32GB Shield LTE Holiday Bundle With Lots of Games
Good Dec. 20 12:01am PST – Dec. 24 11:59pm PST only, NVIDIA is offering a 32GB Shield LTE Holiday Bundle with Half-Life Episode, Half-Life 2, and Portal plus a host of games on the NVIDIA Grid on-demand game streaming service through the end of June 2015: Astebreed Alan Wake American Nightmare Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham City Batman: Arkham … [Read more...]
ASpIRE – IARPA Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments Challenge
Submission deadlines are Feb. 4, 2015 (single microphone) and Feb. 19, 2015 (multiple microphone). The ASpIRE challenge asks solvers to develop innovative speech recognition systems that can be trained on conversational telephone speech, and yet work well on far-field microphone data from noisy, reverberant rooms. Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate their … [Read more...]
MIT Study Finds Computer Neural Networks Identify Visual Objects As Well As The Primate Brain
A new study from MIT neuroscientists has found that one of the latest generation of so-called “deep neural networks” matches the object recognition ability of the primate brain. This improved understanding of how the primate brain works could lead to better artificial intelligence and, someday, new ways to repair visual dysfunction, notes Charles Cadieu, a postdoc at the … [Read more...]
Oculus Buys Nimble VR and 13th Lab
Oculus acquired Nimble VR and 13th lab on Thursday. The acquisitions expand the Oculus ecosystem of technology to include the gumpack sized Nimble Sense that captures a 3D point cloud across a 110 degree field of view and the 13th lab real-time 3D reconstruction framework that is claimed to be both accurate and efficient. In addition to data gathering the Nimble Sense also … [Read more...]
Signup for the Deep-Learning Based Microsoft Skype Translator Preview
Signup to preview the Microsoft Skype deep-learning based real-time audio language translator. Currently only Spanish and English translations are enabled, but more are promised. In a lovely test, Peterson School in Mexico City, and Stafford Elementary School in Tacoma, USA were asked to play a game of ‘Mystery Skype’ in which the children ask questions to determine the … [Read more...]
Google Maps Adds Virtual Reality
Google has added virtual reality to Google Maps with the use of their cardboard smartphone app and holder. Total cost for those who have an android is either free (build a cardboard holder from the google plans) or up to $25 USD for a dodo cardboard case. View this video to see Google cardboard in action. http://youtu.be/lyscJbdBREE The Google Play store … [Read more...]
NVIDIA K80 1.8x Faster and “Highest Energy Efficiency to Date” for Financial Applications
STAC, the financial industry benchmarking organization, released performance testing results on the new NVIDIA Tesla K80 Dual-GPU Accelerator. In the STAC-A2 benchmark, which helps financial institutions and banks better manage risk, the NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU set new performance records. The test code only used two threads on the host processor plus the K80 CUDA code was … [Read more...]
Turn Glasses or Sunglasses into Smart Glasses with Sony Device
Sony announced the development of an attachable Single-Lens Display Module that can turn eyewear of varying designs into smart devices. Mass production is expected to start this year. An SDK will be provided to partnering organizations for this Single-Lens Display Module that is claimed to offer "arithmetic processing capabilities on par with smartphones that was made … [Read more...]