Embody from Melissa Painter’s team at MAP Design Lab is being shown at Sundance 2019, featuring full body tracking with only a headset attached to the body.Read More
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The influencers: How Ottawa uses popular online hosts to get its messages out
The Trudeau government is reaching out to popular YouTube hosts and bloggers to get its messages across to audiences that traditional communications strategies sometimes miss.
Paw-fect helpers! London tennis tournament uses adorable 'ball dogs' (PHOTOS/VIDEO)
There was more intrigue and interest than usual on the opening day of the Champions Tennis veterans tournament in London, thanks to the arrival of a new kind of on-court helper. Traditionally, schoolkids are employed as ball boys and girls to retrieve tennis balls and toss them to the serving player before each point. READ […]
Stock exchanges find novel uses for blockchain
Australia, Singapore and Switzerland are among those experimenting with cryptotechnology
Stock exchanges find novel uses for blockchain
BLOCKCHAIN, THE technology underlying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, was designed with an ideological aim: to sidestep central authorities and governments. But many people have become intrigued by its practical uses, such as updating back-office processes. And few institutions have shown more interest in such applications than financial exchanges. Although stock trades are often made in […]
‘Go f*** yourself!’: Trump-bashing French TV host uses English to tell Donald ‘you’re not welcome’
The French don’t like speaking in foreign languages, but the host of a popular comedy show remembered his English lessons and pulled no punches in the telling US President Donald Trump that he wasn’t welcome in Paris. The ‘Quotidien’ (Daily) program aired on TMC channel ahead of Trump’s arrival to France for the Saturday’s 100th […]
How Munich’s IDNow uses AI and biometrics to enable mobile authentication
Munich-based IDnow wants to revolutionize mobile authentication by allowing people to use its facial recognition technology to open financial accounts.Read More
Georgia’s Republican secretary of state says he’s worried what will happen ‘if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote’ in the November midterm election
AP Photo/John Amis, File Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State and the Republican nominee for governor, said he is worried about his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ efforts to increase voter turnout ahead of the November 6 midterm election. Kemp is in the middle of a heated gubernatorial race in Georgia where he has caught some […]
If SETI uses off-the-shelf hardware & software — can’t you?
VB EVENT: “We use gaming GPUs,” says Dr. Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI research center. “We use the GeForce series from Nvidia. We use consumer level flash drives.” Siemion is one of the speakers at VB Summit, coming up on October 22-23 in Mill Valley, CA. On Twitter, his team recently posted a […]
Reigns: Game of Thrones uses Apple’s face recognition to determine trust or deceipt
In the upcoming Reigns: Game of Thrones for iOS, you have to know who to trust. Should you ally yourself with Tyrion Lannister or Daenerys Targaryen? If you happen to have one of the new Apple iPhone X devices — the X, the XS, or the XS Max — you may have a better chance. The face-tracking […]
