Nuance adds Rovi’s metadata to Dragon TV, becomes annoyingly good at TV trivia

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Nuance adds Rovi’s metadata to Dragon TV, becomes annoyingly good at TV trivia Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision) metadata for its talky-TV platform. Once integrated, the application will be able to marshall far more information [...]

Microsoft brings facial expression recognition to Kinect

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Microsoft brings facial expression recognition to Kinect Microsoft has updated the software development kit for its Kinect sensor, adding facial expression recognition and other capabilities to its 3D camera system. The update comes ahead of Microsoft’s release of the Kinect for Windows SDK, [...]

Bananaphone touch synthesizer replaces ring ring rings with chiptunes (video)

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Bananaphone touch synthesizer replaces ring ring rings with chiptunes (video) If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a [...]

gTar could bring out the virtuoso in you

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gTar could bring out the virtuoso in you Unleash the Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan in you with gTar, a fully digital iPhone-powered guitar that recently launched on Kickstarter. Not to mistaken with the Sitar, gTar comes with a built-in iPhone dock that uses sensors to relay [...] Read [...]

Comcast X1 cable box steps up the cable game

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Comcast X1 cable box steps up the cable game So the way the living room market exists now, if you’re on the leading edge of electronics, you have a cable or satellite box which you use to watch live TV. But if you want to stream a movie, check in with what’s up on your friend’s wall, tune into [...]

Siri, Y U No Understand Me’ [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Siri, Y U No Understand Me’ [INFOGRAPHIC] Siri is a loyal mistress, following you wherever you go — but is she a good listener’ Since the iPhone 4S began coming standard with Siri last October, the voice activated personal assistant has become a cultural phenomenon. Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey [...]

As Seen on YouTube! Orabrush Reinvents the Infomercial

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As Seen on YouTube! Orabrush Reinvents the Infomercial We’ve all spent a sleepless night’channel surfing at 3 a.m. Flicking around at that hour, you’re sure to come across an infomercial for a Revolutionary Floor Cleaner or an Abs-of-Steel Machine urging you to be one of the first 500 callers and [...]

Sprint to ship HTC Evo 4G LTE this coming Thursday

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Sprint to ship HTC Evo 4G LTE this coming Thursday   You can probably recall the big blow we received last week when the arrival of the HTC One X and Evo 4G were delayed at the U.S. Customs for an investigation of a patent infringement with Apple. This week, [...] Read complete Sprint to ship HTC [...]

Lawrence Lessig: Internet Privacy Is an Oxymoron [VIDEO]

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Lawrence Lessig: Internet Privacy Is an Oxymoron [VIDEO] Lawrence Lessig called Internet privacy an “oxymoron” in a backstage interview during this year’s Mashable Connect, held in Orlando, Florida. Lessig added that the solution lies in building what he called an “identity layer” into the [...]

Are You a Human aims to replace CAPTCHA with micro-games

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Are You a Human aims to replace CAPTCHA with micro-games We’ve all been there. No matter how good your vision is, if you spend any amount of time on a computer, you’ve had at least one experience of not being able to read what the heck those garbled inhuman words on those CAPTCHA screens are [...]
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