There are many sites that are apprring with new twists on sharing your photos. I am seeing so many that I will start mentioning some of them briefly here. A problem is that many of these are still in closed…
Google’s Speech Interfaces — using context
Though speech interfaces have been slowly gaining in popularity, this week saw a lot of talk about Google’s speech recognition or voice search algorithms. This is a big step not because it uses speech recognition, but how it does it.…
Smart Traffic
Wall street has an article on how traffic is becoming increasingly smart. Many such articles exist — this one is a good summary of current state of art in this area.
CNN’s Hologram — Immersive Video
In the excitement of Obama victory, we forgot about the technology that CNN showed of on Election day. Vivek sent me the links to CNN’s hologram video and how it was made. These are the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js6b31_p5cc&feature=related http://gizmodo.com/5076663/how-the-cnn-holographic-interview-system-works Quite impressive…
Third World First
I received a link to an interesting article in Boston Globe from Neil. This article shows examples of cases where some advanced technology is first developed in third world countries and then will come to advanced countries. The councluding paragraph…