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What Happened When I Wore Google And Levi’s “Smart” Jacket For A Night
I took the first mass-produced garment with a textile interface for a spin, and found myself both impressed and frustrated.
Apple is opening up amid privacy questions about Face ID, personal data collection
Apple released more details about the iPhone X’s Face ID feature when it published a new privacy site Wednesday, addressing some of the concerns that people have had since the face-scanning feature was announced.
Coming Soon to AMC Theaters: Virtual Reality Experiences
The theater chain has invested $20 million in the start-up Dreamscape Immersive and will open six locations offering V.R. experiences in the next 18 months.
Source: Coming Soon to AMC Theaters: Virtual Reality Experiences – The New York Times
What Social Trends Are Marketers Paying Attention To?
A study of US advertising and marketing executives found there are several social media trends that will influence their efforts next year, ranging from video to virtual and augmented reality.
Source: What Social Trends Are Marketers Paying Attention To? – eMarketer
How Apple Built An iPhone Camera That Makes Everyone A Professional Photographer
How does Apple think about iPhone camera design? Obsessively.
Source: How Apple Built An iPhone Camera That Makes Everyone A Professional Photographer
The latest iPhones show why A.I. is the new electricity
New technologies abound in the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, but one of them is not like the others.
Source: The latest iPhones show why A.I. is the new electricity | Computerworld
Inside Facebook’s plan to turn the world into the MoMA
Augmented reality art, which you can only see through special apps on your phone, is coming. And with it, questions about what’s real and what’s not.
Source: Inside Facebook’s plan to turn the world into the MoMA – CNET
The Washington Post’s robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past year
The Post has produced 850 basic reports using AI, but is more interested in using it to aid more ambitious journalism.
Source: The Washington Post’s robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past year – Digiday
These Are Not the Robots We Were Promised
We were expecting Rosie from “The Jetsons” or maybe C3PO. Why did we end up with Alexa?
Source: These Are Not the Robots We Were Promised – The New York Times
Can The iPhone Change The Way We Live Again?
With the new iPhone and ARKit, Apple will bring augmented reality to the masses. What that will mean for the masses is still unclear.
Robot beat 80% of students on University of Tokyo entrance exam
Artificial intelligence can’t understand meaning or emotion just yet, but it can write a pretty good essay on 17th-century maritime trade.
Source: Robot beat 80% of students on University of Tokyo entrance exam – Business Insider
AI Learns to Write Convincing Fake Reviews on Yelp
Savvy netizens have learned to be a bit distrustful of online reviews. For one thing, fake reviews glowingly recommending a service or a product can be easily bought. On the other hand, there are those reviews that seem genuine enough but ultimately reflect the particular biases of the reviewer.
However, there is another type of review that modern consumers need to be wary of. Besides biased and sometimes untruthful people, technology has now spawned AI bots that churn out reviews like it was nothing. And the worst part is, according to researchers, you can’t tell the difference between fake reviews done by a robot against one written by a human.
The product design challenges of AR on smartphones
The initial products in a new medium are successful products from the prior medium copied and forced into the new medium. It’s easier for people to imagine and fit a mental model of the new medium that is still developing. I often hear that AR will be great “to see my Uber approaching” (even though a 2D map does a great job of this). The winning AR apps will take advantage of the new capabilities of the new medium and do things that weren’t even possible in the old medium.
Source: The product design challenges of AR on smartphones | TechCrunch
How AI will Completely Transform Education
How AI is changing education will be clear in the coming years as these systems ease into classrooms and office spaces everywhere.
Source: How AI will Completely Transform Education | Digital Trends
How to Survive the Great Tech Panic of 2017
THAT TWINGE OF worry. That occasional, sudden-onset widening-gyre sensation. It’s hard not to experience a bit of anxiety at the world’s recent technological upheavals—the endless stream of hacks, leaks, and cyberattacks; the whiplash advances in artificial intelligence and automation; the constant fear and loathing stoked by @socialmedia; and the Hieronymus Bosch spectacle that is democracy in the age of flying monkeys and fake news.
Walmart & Google Team Up to Challenge Amazon
“Ok, Google, buy me nice things.”
Source: Walmart (WMT) and Google (GOOG) enter the voice-shopping market to challenge Amazon — Quartz
Virtual Reality for Freely Moving Animals
Experiments that place untethered fish, flies, and mice in simulated environments give clues about the animals’ social behavior.
Source: Virtual Reality for Freely Moving Animals | The Scientist Magazine®
How Google Maps knows when there’s traffic
Google Maps is a very useful tool for navigating your way through traffic and quickly getting you to your destination. But how it works may creep you out.
Source: How Google Maps knows when there’s traffic – Business Insider
Apple could guide you around your city using augmented reality
ARKit + CoreLocation, part 2 pic.twitter.com/AyQiFyzlj3
— Andrew Hart (@AndrewProjDent) July 21, 2017
ARKit is one of the biggest changes in iOS 11. Under the hood, Apple is about to transform the iPhone into a very capable augmented reality device.
Source: Apple could guide you around your city using augmented reality | TechCrunch
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Glitch: The Sleeper Coding Community Used By Facebook And Slack
“There used to be an immediacy to the web,” says Anil Dash. “It was something you made.”
Source: Glitch: The Sleeper Coding Community Used By Facebook And Slack