Potatoes have ears as well as eyes - or at least potato-chip bags have ears. Researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. The ACM paper, "The visual microphone: passive recovery of sound from video" describes the algorithm. Many surfaces flexible enough to … [Read more...]
UK To Allow Driverless Car Testing In A Few Cities
Following the lead set by California, Florida, and Nevada, the UK has announced two measures that give the green light for driverless cars to take to UK roads from January 2015. UK cities can now bid for a share of a £10 million competition to host a driverless cars trial. The government is calling on cities to join together with businesses and research organisations to put … [Read more...]
New Data Transmission Record 42 Terabits Per Second (Tbs)
"A team from Denmark working at the German Karlsruhe Institute for Technology has broken the data transmission rate record previously set by a team in Germany (32 terabits per second). In this new effort, the team (with the High-Speed Optical Communications Group) achieved a rate of 43 terabits per second using just one laser and one fiber cable." Read more … [Read more...]
ArrayFire Open Sources Tertiary Projects Only – More Promised Later
The ArrayFire GPU accelerated library software has made news by announcing they are moving to open source. Right now only the wrappers and examples that will bring more customers are currently open source. A business-savvy first move. Specifically, the ArrayFire website states, " ... it’s neither simple nor straightforward to take a closed software Open Source. Earlier … [Read more...]
Tegra K1 Drives Audi A7 In Florida Driverless Car Highway Test
Audi tested a fully equipped driverless A7 on a Florida highway at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. Governor Rick Scott, a proponent of driverless vehicles and signer of the bill that allows for testing such vehicles in the state, sat in the driver's seat without touching the controls for part of the test. Audi requested a shutdown of Tampa's Lee Roy Selmon … [Read more...]
Dongarra and Team Start New Supercomputing Journal
Jack Dongarra and his colleague Vladimir Voevodin have started a new peer-reviewed publication called “Journal Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations” (JSFI). The Editorial Director is Leonid Sokolinsky at the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Following is the foreword: Parallel scientific computing has entered a new era. Multicore processors on … [Read more...]
AMD Introduces an ARM64 Development Kit $2999
AMD is now accepting applications for the AMD Opteron™ A1100 Series 64-bit ARM Developers kit, which supports the RedHat ARM Partner Early Access Program for software and hardware developers as well as early adopters in large datacenters. The development kit provides the hardware and software needed to begin application development and evaluate the A1100 Series processors. … [Read more...]
Making a Difference – TACC Ranger Rides in Africa
The TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Ranger supercomputer, which as the first NSF "Path to Petascale" system makes global journey to Africa. The student HPC team from the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa recently won their second competition at ISC14 so we believe Ranger is in good hands and will continue to deliver quality … [Read more...]
A Simple Way to Add Aspect-Preserving Responsive Design HTML5 Animations Using WebGL
Learn how to include really fast WebGL accelerated interactive 3D content in your posts - including responsive design WordPress sites like TechEnablement! This first in a series of Web-Dev tutorials teaches how to add an interactive 3D text animation to via a simple embedded iframe HTML statement. The CSS is included in the HTML so no site css modifications required! The … [Read more...]
Start Developing on the ARM-Powered NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Now!
NVIDIA posted a development kit for the NVIDIA Shield Tablet including a banquet of languages (CUDA, Java, C/C++, ...) and developer tools. A complete list of features can be found at Tegra Android Development Pack and are available for download under the NVIDIA GameWorks Download Center. Develop on the latest and fastest mobile hardware available with the all-new NVIDIA® … [Read more...]