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Ilya Vorobiev

Microsoft Hyperlapse: time lapse your videos - 1 views

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      Every vacation or important event we produce a lot of videos and photos that are hardly consumable in the future. This is big a challenge for image and video recognition technologies. Hyperlapse is a great example in this field that helps to convert minutes or hours of videos into short simple and nice clip. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcBLc4ifuQ
  • Microsoft Hyperlapse is a new technology that creates smooth and stabilized time lapses from first-person videos.
  • you can time lapse those experiences, distilling them into easily consumable, enjoyable experiences.
alexbelov

CableRobot Simulator Brings Real Movement to Virtual Reality | Virtual Reality Times - 0 views

  • Called the CableRobot simulator, it comprises of a platform that is safely tucked inside a fiber roll cage, which is made of very lightweight carbon. The platform can seat a single person with or without a VR headset.
  • ts initial target use is mainly for industries, but VR enthusiasts are hopeful that the CableRobot simulator will be developed to adopt video games such as racing games which demands physical movements in order to provide a realistic gaming experience in VR.
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    A robot that simulates motion for VR environment and can create acceleration up to 1.5g in response to VR experience. Potentially useful for research training, research and gaming.
anna_nelidova

Head tracker knows what you're doing and helps you multitask | New Scientist - 1 views

  • wearable system that tracks human movements to understand what task you’re doing, how difficult it is, and when you switch to something else. His goal is to help us control our multitasking lives
  • Gathering patterns of data that describe humans doing different tasks has more potential than just helping us work more efficiently.
  • the device could turn your phone to silent or deliver only emergency notifications. It could also tell you when you need to take a break
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  • Epps’s team has made a device which straps to a baseball cap that can work out the intensity of a task and when a person switches to another task – just from their head movements.
  • o use the data from wearables to train artificial intelligences.
  • Epps’s team is building a new prototype made from cheap components that can be worn on glasses, which tracks eye movement and speech as well as head motion.
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    A wearable system that tracks head movements could help people to multitask and handle distractions. The data generated by wearables on millions of humans can be useful for learning purposes of robots and AI. 
Maria Gurova

Russia Wants People to Road Trip from New York to London (via Moscow) - 1 views

  • Russian Railways wants to build one, as part of a massive road and rail project that would stretch from New York to London by way of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and continental Europe.
  • The plan is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, and Russian Railway president Vladimir Yakunin proposed it earlier this year.
  • A 520 mile stretch of road would carry travelers — and, presumably, trade goods — west from the Canadian border, through Fairbanks and Nome, to the shores of the Seward Peninsula.
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  • On the other hand, Yakutin may be a plausible successor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, and the two are said to be close personal friends.
  • Even if the TEBD never breaks ground, the idea lends itself to all sorts of speculation. You could, in theory, one day make it from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern tip of Chile using a combination of roads and railways.
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    and when you look at the same subject from outside of Russia that might seem like a Transformative scenario rather then Market or Fortress 
Anna Dubinina

Genetics medical care - 0 views

  • The Obama administration has called for a new era of "personalized medicine," which relies on collecting a vast amount of genetic information from American volunteers to bolster the development of genetics-based treatment.
  • . Medical schools did not pay much heed to genetics until relatively recently
  • Studies have also found that most patients don't actually change their behavior for the better once they learn about a genetic predisposition to a disease. But he also argues that primary care physicians shouldn't simply ignore genetics.
alexbelov

Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype - and everywhere else | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • Microsoft’s own virtual assistant Cortana, aim to help pave the way for the future of communication, productivity, and interactions with businesses and brands.
  • In Skype, the company showed off rich Cortana integration which put the assistant directly into the app where she could help users do things like identify the persons, places and things in your messages, underline them, and then display more info in a card-like interface when clicked.
  • She is also able to help you perform a variety of tasks, like adding items to your calendar, booking travel or hotel rooms, or even pre-populating conversations to friends with text.
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  • The bots’ integration in Skype is rolling out today on Windows, iOS and Android as a preview.
  • The company launched the first-ever Skype Bot SDK, which lets brands, businesses and other third parties create their own bots that can work on Skype, seamlessly integrating into users’ chats. These aren’t just text bots, as many of the SMS-based virtual assistance startups we’ve seen so far – Skype bots can introduce both audio and video experiences
  • The company is also launching a bot directory, giving us a brief peek at a few bots it had created itself.
  • Bots “represent a huge opportunity to write new types of applications,” Nadella told developers
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    Microsoft jumps bots bandwagon by introducing bots ecosystem in skype, which includes bot development kit, bot framework and bot directory.
Oleg Batluk

Your First Impression Starts On Social Media | Judy Mann - 0 views

  • gather up a first impression of who you are before job interviews
  • your social and digital footprint
  • it's actually no different than the impression you leave someone with the first time they meet you in person
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  • The social media exchange is a one-way push of non-verbal cues -- good and not so good -- and you probably don't know who has seen what and who has decided what
  • sites like Crystal Knows that takes your social media footprint and makes assumptions about who you are, how you are, and the best way to communicate to you, and sums it all up into one profile
  • social media audit of yourself
  • What would mom or grandma say? Or how about your boss?
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Maybe this is because I’m young, but, like, I don’t think that there is a lot about my personal life that I wouldn’t want to incorporate into what I’m doing professionally,”
isoldatenkova

Capitalism Camp for Kids - The New York Times - 0 views

  • programs that are designed to teach students about how to be businesspeople and innovators (biznovators!).
  • children as young as 8 will learn how to monetize their hobbies, interview local corporate executives, and shoot YouTube commercials for their prospective businesses.
  • students are assessed, by the end of their programs, on “noncognitive skills” and on something called the Entrepreneurial Mind-set Index.
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  • a kid, at 10, can pick up these business principles and literally start their own little micro business.”
  • the whole spectrum of a woman in business: the challenges she had to overcome, personal branding, communication, etiquette, and then also teaching these girls how to have agency,
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