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Researchers show AuraRing, a low-power 5DoF gesture ring and wristband
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 21:52
Tracking finger motion with computer vision works, but not precisely, leaving room for a ring-based solution that offers high-resolution finger tracking.
Optane persistent memory: Is the end of conventional client storage almost here?
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 22:50
Intel's Optane persistent memory continues to make strides in data centers, but should we expect it to do the same in tomorrow's client systems?
Fortnite is hosting a PS4 tournament on February 15 and 16
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 22:38
Sony announced today that Epic Games is hosting The Fortnite Celebration Cup on February 15 and February 16 as an exclusive tournament for PlayStation 4.
B2B Customer Support Is A Whole Different Beast. You Need The Right Tools To Pull It Off.
Forbes - 3 Feb 2020 21:18
Robert C. Johnson is both the metaphorical pilot of TeamSupport, his fast-growing Dallas-based company, and a real-life stunt pilot in airshows, flying vintage military airplanes to entertain crowds around the country.
HPE acquires identity management startup Scytale
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 21:01
HPE announced that it acquire Scytale, a startup developing identity-driven and large-scale distributed software, for an undisclosed sum.
Goldman Sachs is close to a deal with Amazon to offer loans to the e-commerce giant's merchants
CNBC - 3 Feb 2020 20:25
The move to begin making loans to small businesses in the latter stages of a decade-long U.S. economic expansion may increase the risks Goldman is taking on.
New data set helps train cars to drive autonomously in winter weather
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 20:14
Researchers at Scale AI, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto have open-sourced a driving data set captured in snowfall.
Microsoft's Game Stack chief: The next generation of games and game development
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 19:35
James Gwertzman, general manager of Microsoft Game Stack, gets to see how thousand of games are developed and run. He talked about the future of games.
Ubisoft acquires Idle Miner Tycoon developer Kolibri Games
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 19:27
Ubisoft acquires mobile idle-game developer Kolibri Games. This gives Ubisoft a studio that can really make the numbers go up.
Apple details AI to help voice assistants recognize hotwords and multilingual speakers
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 18:40
Apple published a series of papers detailing its work in the field of voice recognition and multilingual speaker identification.
Professional Keynote Speaker Secrets I Learned The Hard Way, So You Don't Need To
Forbes - 3 Feb 2020 18:29
Keynote speakers almost always think they did well onstage. But are they really getting honest feedback? Learn this and other professional secrets that Micah Solomon, a professional keynote speaker on customer service an...
Why This Tech Pioneer Says Real Success Has Nothing To Do With Money
Forbes - 3 Feb 2020 17:04
With MindTravel, Murray creates live, improvised musical compositions that reflect the event's particular location and the energy within. The sounds are meant to evoke deep, personal emotions and help them feel more conn...
Five Recommendations For Human Resource Management
Forbes - 3 Feb 2020 15:10
Human resources is the building block of progress and is responsible for technology and its implications in the business world.
Toyota uses big data to prevent accidents caused by accelerator-brake mix-up
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 12:02
Toyota unveiled an emergency safety system that uses big data to ignore the accelerator if it determines the driver steps on the pedal unintentionally.
How To Love Being An Introverted Entrepreneur
Forbes - 3 Feb 2020 11:00
Introverts tend to spend a bit more time in their heads than the average extrovert or ambivert.
MIT CSAIL's RFocus boosts wireless signal strength by a factor of nearly 10
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 07:00
A new study by researchers at MIT CSAIL proposes RFocus, a technique for boosting signal strength with thousands of small antennas.
Tea for God's hand-tracking update is buggy and a marvel
Venture Beat - 3 Feb 2020 05:07
I'm fond of hand-tracking on Oculus Quest, even when it's broken. Tea For God's new hand-tracking update demonstrates that well, even if it's a buggy mess.