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(PDF) Baidu Built a Supercomputer for Deep Learning
[Tech]
2015/01/22 11:30
Chinese search engine company Baidu says it has built the world’s most-accurate computer vision system, dubbed Deep Image, which runs on a supercomputer optimized for deep learning algorithms. Baidu claims a 5.98 percent error rate on the ImageNet object classification benchmark; a team from Google won the 2014 ImageNet competition with a 6.66 percent error rate.In experiments, humans achieved...
(Video) Microsoft’s New Holographic Nerd Helmet Is Awesome
[Tech]
2015/01/22 11:30
At an event held for the media at its corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a face computer that blends holographs into your world using see-through lenses. And it is somewhat remarkable.After the morning’s keynote wrapped, the company guided the accumulated technology press through a series of demos using incomplete hardware and software. The hardware we used w...
One57 - New York's Most Expensive Penthouse Just Sold for $100 Million
[Design]
2015/01/22 11:30
New York real estate is soaring, and there's no better proof than One57.One of the penthouses in the 1,004-foot-tall residence has officially closed for $100.5 million, making it the most expensive apartment ever sold in NYC and the first to surpass $100 million.Located on the 89th and 90th floors, the penthouse has 11,000 square feet, six bedrooms, a steam room, a library, and an indoor movie...
(Video) How Starwood Hotels Plans to Redesign the Check-In Process
[Business]
2015/01/22 11:30
Loyalty rewards program debuts new technology: the first-ever keyless room entry.Imagine the typical check-in process of your holiday vacation: after airport security and a long flight, you arrive at the hotel lobby and join a number of guests in line for the front desk. During peak travel hours, you wait until an associate is available to greet you, request your ID and credit card and confirm...
Facebook's Mobile Ad Revenue Will Completely Dwarf Its Desktop Revenue Next Year
[Business]
2015/01/22 11:29
Facebook’s mobile ad revenue is growing at an astonishing rate and it’s showing no sign of let-up.For a company that admitted in its 2012 IPO filing it did not “generate any meaningful revenue” from its mobile products, Facebook has truly pivoted.We already know that in 2013 45% of Facebook’s $6.99 billion in full-year ad revenue was derived from mobile ads. But by 2016 Facebook’s worldwi...
This Chair Can Transform Into Multiple Configurations to Maximize Comfort
[Design]
2015/01/22 11:29
Montreal-based designer St?phane Leathead has created Exocet, a new concept chair that has identical slats assembled on a rotating cylinder to allow the chair to change shape with ease.Exocet is the first product for design studio Designarium, and will be presented at the Interior Design Show (IDS2015) in Toronto later this month.EXOCET is a new concept chair. Its unique & clever design all...
Some People Are Paying Way Too Much for Law School
[Business]
2015/01/22 11:29
Law schools are increasingly relying on less-qualified applicants to fill their classes, but according to a new analysis, those people are getting the worst deal on their education.The data, presented this month at the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting in Washington, suggest that people who did poorly on the Law School Admission Test didn’t just pay more than everyone else,...
(Infographic) Visualizing The Future of Travel
[Business]
2015/01/22 11:29
Here is an infographic from Discount Park and Ride that visualizes the future of travel.100 years ago the first commercial flight in America took off from St. Petersburg and safely landed in Tampa, FL. Since that historic flight, major advances in plane, boat, and car technology have made it possible to travel large distances in a relatively short amount of time. However, many travelers continu...
(Patent) Google Just Got a Patent for a Modern Polaroid
[Tech]
2015/01/21 11:21
It looks like it’s not just hipsters and Taylor Swift who are getting back into instant photos. Google was awarded a patent today (Jan. 20) for a handheld digital camera that can print out photos. [Like the unholy child of a camcorder and a Polaroid.(US Patent and Trademark Office)]Based on the drawings submitted to the US Patent Office, Google seems to have been exploring the possibility of m...
(PDF) How Personal Technology is Changing our Lives
[Consumer]
2015/01/21 11:21
Modern technology has not only given us permanent access to an abundance of information, it has also granted us the ability to connect with people on the other side of the planet at the touch of a finger and do many other things that seemed unthinkable a couple of decades ago. While these endless possibilities may seem overwhelming at times, the broad consensus among internet users is that tech...
SpaceX Raises $1 Billion In New Funding From Google And Fidelity
[Investing]
2015/01/21 11:21
Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $1 billion from Google and Fidelity, confirming earlier reports from The Information and The Wall Street Journal.The two new investors will now own just less than 10% of the company. SpaceX had previously raised $245.5 million in funding, according to CrunchBase, meaning this new round is more than four times bigger than all its other rounds combined. The company i...
(PDF) Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams to Charge Smartphones
[Tech]
2015/01/21 11:21
The prototype AutoCharge system uses a Microsoft Kinect camera.Smartphones are amazing but their battery life is frequently absurd. It's not uncommon for people to charge their smartphones once, twice or even more in the course of a single day. Enter a team from Microsoft Research that wants to stop you from worrying about plugging in your phone.Yunxin Liu, Zhen Qin and Chunshui Zhao from Micro...
