Friday, May 13, 2016

The Roll helps you find the best photos on your phone and other top stories.

  • The Roll helps you find the best photos on your phone

    The Roll helps you find the best photos on your phone
    Wondering which of the tens of thousands of photos on your phone are worth keeping or sharing may be a thing of the past, thanks to The Roll, a brand new app from EyeEm. The iOS app analyzes your camera roll and uses computer vision to tag your images and rank your photos by how good they are. The Roll’s keywording is uncannily good “The Roll is there to replace your phone’s camera roll,” said Florian Meissner, EyeEm’s CEO, as he showed me the technology in action on his own phone c..
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  • Activision Blizzard to Publish Daily Live Programming on Facebook

    Activision Blizzard to Publish Daily Live Programming on Facebook
    Activision Blizzard Inc., looking to draw more eyeballs and advertising dollars to its competitive-videogame content, plans next month to begin publishing daily live programming on Facebook Inc. The companies announced the collaboration Thursday at the NewFronts digital-media conference in New York, where Activision Blizzard pitched marketers on its business of competitive videogaming, also called e-sports. Activision Blizzard said...
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  • Nvidia's 'Founders Edition' graphics cards have been demystified

    Nvidia's 'Founders Edition' graphics cards have been demystified
    Kyle Bennett of HardOCP has gotten to the bottom of one of this week's tech mysteries: what exactly is an Nvidia Founders Edition graphics card? When it announced its awesome new GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 cards, Nvidia noted that each would be offered in a Founders Edition, costing $100 and $70 more than their typical retail prices — but it didn't explain what would be different about those variants of its new Pascal GPUs. Wherefore art thou more expensive, Pascal? As it turns out, the Founders..
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  • Sega is 'investigating' a 'Shenmue' HD remaster

    Sega is 'investigating' a 'Shenmue' HD remaster
    Sega community manager Dan Sheridan addressed the question in a video, explaining that the company would "love to release" HD ports of Shenmue and Shenmue 2 "tomorrow," but that it's not as simple as porting the games over to current platforms. "With games as immersive as Shenmue 1 and 2 there are further complications from licensed products that were included in the original games." With a variety of promotional tie-ins and items that were altered for both North American and European releases..
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  • Monster Hunter Generations, limited edition New 3DS XLs debut in July

    Monster Hunter Generations, limited edition New 3DS XLs debut in July
    Capcom’s multiplayer creature-battling action game Monster Hunter Generations will make its English-language debut in July alongside a pair of limited edition New Nintendo 3DS XL portables, Nintendo announced today. Players in North America can expect to see a blue Monster Hunter-themed New 3DS XL portable this summer, while Europe gets a region-exclusive red variant. Both editions will include a digital copy of Monster Hunter Generations. Released in Japan in 2015, Monster Hunter Generations ..
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  • BMW readies electric, self-driving flagship car

    BMW readies electric, self-driving flagship car
    Requested Article BMW readies electric, self-driving flagship car BMW's iNext electric car is set to enter showrooms in 2021 and will be able to drive itself in many situations, CEO Harald Krueger told shareholders.
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  • Google launches Gboard, an iOS keyboard that lets you search without a browser

    Google launches Gboard, an iOS keyboard that lets you search without a browser
    Google this morning launched a new application for iOS devices called Gboard that puts the power of Google search directly into your mobile device’s keyboard. This keyboard had been rumored to be in development earlier this year, and it appears the original reports were accurate. Not only does the app allow for an easy way to use Google search, it also offers swipe-based typing and access to GIFs, as previously reported. And it includes easy access to common keyboard functions, like emojis ..
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  • Google is giving away the tool it uses to understand language, Parsey McParseface

    Google is giving away the tool it uses to understand language, Parsey McParseface
    Say hello to Parsey McParseface. Yes, to get you to pay attention to what would otherwise be a fairly dense and nerdy thing, Google is using an homage to Boaty McBoatface for one of the software tools it's releasing today. But don't just laugh (or groan) at the name, what Google is giving developers and researchers access to is a big deal. Today, it's open-sourcing something it calls SyntaxNet and a component for it, Mr. McParseface. These are some of the tools that Google uses to understand na..
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  • Canon's latest macro lens features a built-in flash ring

    Canon's latest macro lens features a built-in flash ring
    Canon recently introduced a pair of new camera accessories, one of which is particularly noteworthy for those that shoot using the company’s mirrorless platform. The EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM lens is unique in that it features a pair of built-in flash rings, an accessory that’s practically a necessity for those interested in extreme macro photography. Two curved flash modules surround the front element of the lens and can be lit simultaneously or one at a time, allowing shooters to create le..
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  • Piece of paper that connects to Internet? UW, Disney make it a reality

    Piece of paper that connects to Internet? UW, Disney make it a reality
    University of Washington researchers are using 10-cent radio-frequency tags to turn pieces of paper into connected devices. More and more household items are becoming connected to the Internet, and simple pieces of paper could be next. Researchers at the University of Washington worked with Disney to create small stickers that can be pressed onto any piece of paper to give it sensing capabilities that let it connect to the digital world. A paper could be made into a wand, for example, and chang..
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