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Oleg Batluk

В Китае не хватает профессиональных пилотов дронов | Хайтек - 1 views

  • в Китае открылось более 40 школ для пилотов дронов.
  • изучают пилотирование на симуляторах и реальных дронах
  • ежегодно требуется более 10 000 специалистов
Oleg Batluk

Евгений Касперский: «Биометрика умрет, и это будет проблемой» | Хайтек - 0 views

  • кража личности
  • Биометрика как надежное средство идентификации умрет
  • нехватка специалистов по ИТ-безопасности
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  • технические университеты не выпускают достаточное количество таких кадров
  • в некоторых странах такие интернет-паспорта уже появились
  • Когда умрёт биометрика? Тогда, когда 3D-принтеры научатся печатать отпечатки пальцев, глаза, лицо
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    Biometrics is not effective tool to prevent identity theft
Oleg Batluk

Ученые научились превращать сны в видеоролики | Хайтек - 0 views

  • С ее помощью можно создавать мини-фильмы, в которых отражаются базовые события сна — встречи, прогулки, простые диалоги
  • Чтобы превратить свой сон в видеоролик, придется лечь в капсулу для МРТ, прикрепить специальные электродные датчики
  • придется обучить ПО определенным словесным конструкциям
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  • превратить мозговые импульсы в визуальный ряд
  • Движение органов речи и мышц, задействованных в этом процессе, могут считывать специальные электронные датчики, которые крепятся к горлу
  • Для отслеживания движений, которые мы делаем в своем сне, используется метод электромиографии
  • превращение личных подсознательных переживаний в видеопродукт вызывает много этических вопросов
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    New brain and body impulses visualization technologies will allow to show your dreams as movies on screen
Oleg Batluk

MasterCard и Visa заменят пин-коды на селфи и интернет вещей | Хайтек - 1 views

  • сервис подтверждения платежей с помощью селфи в 15 странах
  • MasterCard Identity Check
  • биометрические данные — отпечаток пальца и распознавание черт лица.
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  • Visa Ready
  • Первая демо-программа следит за уровнем бензина и подсказывает водителю, где находится ближайшая заправка
  • На заправке приложение рассчитывает стоимость бензина и предлагает оплатить его, не выходя из машины
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    Entertainment and banking are merging to widen internet of things experience
Oleg Batluk

Вертолет ZERO - личный транспорт нового поколения, который станет спасением о... - 2 views

  • вертолёт будет использоваться в качестве личного городского транспорта.
  • компактнее, чем обычный вертолёт
Oleg Batluk

PlaNet узнает место по фотографии с невероятной точностью | Хайтек - 0 views

  • Новейшее достижение искусственного интеллекта Google — способность компьютера узнать, где была сделана практически любая фотография.
  • нейронную сеть
  • PlaNet побеждает человека
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    Google creates proactive algorythm automatically defining any photo geolocation
Oleg Batluk

В вузе Таиланда появилась выделенная полоса для пользователей смартфонов - ИА... - 0 views

  • Первая в Таиланде экспериментальная «полоса для пользователей мобильных телефонов» создана на пешеходной дорожке университета Касетсарт.
  • пользователей смартфонов, которые беспорядочно двигались по тротуару, не замечая ничего вокруг
Oleg Batluk

5 лучших изобретений недели | Хайтек - 0 views

  • Google хочет использовать радиолокацию, чтобы усовершенствовать процесс поиска данных в интернете
  • Радары в данном случае используются для распознавания жестов и других физиологических данных пользователя.
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    Google wants to use radiolocations to expand search with physiological consumer data
Oleg Batluk

Алгоритмы любви: какими будут свидания в 2040 году | Хайтек - 0 views

  • прогнозы о том, как изменятся отношения и свидания через 25 лет
  • Американская компания New Deal Design, которая занимается выпуском фитнес-трекеров Fitbit, готовит к выпуску «татуировки», которые будут визуализировать эмоции человека.
  • в будущем у нас будет две «вторых половинки» — человек и робот
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  • Программы на основе искусственного интеллекта смогут в реальном времени анализировать видео со свидания и облегчить моменты неловкости
  • Люди будут полагаться на большие данные для принятия решений о длительных отношениях
  • в будущем люди захотят подбирать себе пару по данным ДНК
  • искать партнера можно будет не только в своем городе, но и в других городах и даже странах
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    Technologies will bring big data to romantic relationship turning it into e-romance
Maria Gurova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - У российских мультипликаторов есть шанс получить налоговые льготы - 1 views

  • Российский премьер-министр Дмитрий Медведев предварительно одобрил идею введения налоговых льгот для российских компаний, которые создают мультфильмы
  • Мультипликационные компании очень похожи по своей сути на разработчиков программного обеспечения
  • По словам Попова, идея с налоговыми льготами для мультипликаторов в целом и с возможной пропиской в «Сколково» в частности предварительно обсуждалась на совещании в Минэкономразвития, чиновники которого идею поддержали
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  • Российские мультсериалы сейчас транслируются на телеканалах 25 стран
  • По оценке Ассоциации анимационного кино, доля отечественных мультипликационных брендов на рынке лицензионных товаров за последние два года выросла с 7–8 до 15–19%, полнометражные фильмы увеличили долю в национальном кинопрокате в 1,3 раза, а в мировом топ-100 видеороликов YouTube сейчас пять российских мультфильмов
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    Отечественные производители анимации, возможно, получат налоговые послабления, что позволит индустрии развиваться быстрее
Maria Gurova

Mattel Unveils ThingMaker, A $300 3D Printer That Lets Kids Make Their Own Toys | TechC... - 0 views

  • Mattel unveiled its new, $300 3D Printer, the “ThingMaker,” which will allow children to print their own toys at home
  • While there are affordably priced 3D printers available today, the software that works with them can sometimes have a learning curve that can hinder adoption. With the new application, live now on iOS and Android, the goal was to make it easy enough for anyone to design their own toys – even younger children
  • The idea isn’t just to print an object and be done, however – instead, kids will print parts that can be assembled to form larger creations, like dolls, robots, dinosaurs, scorpions, skeletons, bracelets or necklaces, for example
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  • This process can take anywhere from 30 minutes for a small item, up to overnight (e.g. 6 6 to 8 hours) for a larger toy
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    Mattel presented a new affordable toy that allows kids to build their own toys at home using a kids-friendly app that is easy to use for a novice and a home 3D printer. The spread of this technology might put pressure on the traditional toy market and create opportunity for IPs owners to allow kids interact with their favorite franchise in the whole new way
Maria Gurova

Instagram to ramp up efforts to lure small businesses - FT.com - 1 views

  • When we launched ads two years ago, ads were available in just eight countries. In September, we opened for business in around 200 countries
  • Facebook’s global sales team was beginning to push Instagram’s advertising to small businesses, providing them with the ability to target marketing at particular users
  • that international expansion was a priority, with 75 per cent of its more than 400m users based outside the US
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  • it has said that its second-largest market outside its home country is Brazil, where it has about 29m users. On Monday, it announced that it has 9m users in Germany and has previously said that it has more than 14m users in the UK
  • Analysts only just started releasing their estimates last year, suggesting the app could generate between $1.2bn and $2bn in sales in 2016
  • Instagram’s monthly active user base could reach up to 520m by the end of 2016.
  • Instagram launched an advertising format that allowed marketers to include links to their products and websites. The so-called “carousel adverts” allow a brand to display several images at once and use a “learn more” button to lead consumers to its own sit
  • the company had no immediate plans to introduce a “Buy” button, similar to the one that Facebook has been trialling. Retailers want the group to introduce functions that will allow users to purchase products seen through the app
  • Instagram is attractive to advertisers partly because of its popularity with hard-to-reach teenagers.
  • A lobbying push by big technology groups, including Facebook, helped to water down the proposed ban. National governments will now be able to reduce the age at which personal data may be used to 13
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    Instagram is now focusing on leveraging more of the parent company resources to increase app's monetization through ad sales. Therefore making their ad features available on the international markets and focusing on the smaller companies and entrepreneurs 
Maria Gurova

Amazon Will Open Over 300 Physical Bookstores Because Life Is a Practical Joke Played O... - 1 views

  • Amazon is working on plans to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores
  • Amazon already has one physical store that opened back in November.
  • Physical bookstores quickly turned into showroom floors where people would browse and then go buy books for cheap at Amazon.
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  • We can’t wait to see Netflix open up laserdisc rental shops next
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    so far this is only speculations and rumors. but let's see how the story evolves 
Oleg Batluk

Web-mad Hongkongers have digital dementia - and we're losing our memories | South China... - 1 views

  • Frequent use of digital devices is causing memory loss among Hongkongers
  • brain health experts have even coined a name for the condition: digital dementia.
  • correlation between more frequent usage of digital devices and self-reported memory loss in daily life and at work.
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  • the cognitive challenges and attention problems that result from overuse of digital technology.
  • Almost all respondents (95 per cent) owned at least two digital devices
  • bio-behavioural sciences
  • Respondents who spent more than six hours daily on their digital devices were more likely to report experiencing forgetfulness in the past month compared to those who spent fewer hours
  • the survey for first time shows this connection between overuse or higher use of digital devices and more complaints of memory disturbances in Hongkongers
  • "digital immigrants"
  • In his 2008 book iBrain, Small talks about "digital natives"
  • The survey also found poor dietary and exercise habits among the respondents
  • The term digital dementia was coined a few years ago in South Korea, after doctors reported seeing young patients with memory and cognitive problems, conditions that were more commonly linked to brain injuries.
  • Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul, South Korea: "As people are more dependent on digital devices for searching information than memorising, the brain function for searching improves whereas an ability to remember decreases
  • Dr Manfred Spitzer, a German neuroscientist and author of the 2012 book Digital Dementia: What We and Our Children are Doing to our Minds,
  • warns that children who spend too much time on electronic devices could experience irreversible deficits in brain development.
  • multitasking teens
  • The devices are not all bad," he says. "It's really about content, context and dose
  • balance the online time with offline time
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    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
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    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
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    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
Oleg Batluk

Save Yourself From the Digital Zombie Apocalypse and Get Outdoors | TakePart - 0 views

  • my attention monopolized at that moment by an electronic screen.
  • offers endlessly updating possibilities.
  • for many children growing up today, digital reality is the only reality.
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  • It is addictive
  • children grow up not caring about the natural world.
  • The list of physical and social maladies associated with sedentary behavior—an almost inevitable corollary of time spent on electronic devices
  • American Academy of Pediatrics used to recommend that parents limit screen time to less than two hours a day for children over the age of two
  • digital reality as the new normal
  • Make shutting down the devices a family thing.
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    Self-limitation from digtal monopoly to save kids from mental and physical deasess should become a family thing
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    Self-limitation from digtal monopoly to save kids from mental and physical deasess should become a family thing
Oleg Batluk

Will Big Data Be Used to Create Ad Zombies or Digital Assistants? | Gary Eber... - 0 views

  • unable to separate reality (or as "real" as the online world can be, cartoon or otherwise) and the fictional world of advertising.
  • Dr. Domingos' recent article in the Wall Street Journal paints a utopian scenario where consumers are able to wrest control of the personal information stolen by big business and use it to create "digital models".
  • we really need to ask if creating millions of digital models to remove us even further from face-to-face interaction is the right thing to do.
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  • Big Brother government is replaced by Big Business.
  • the perils of aggregating vast amounts of personal data in huge centralized repositories of purportedly trusted third-parties.
Maria Gurova

Elon Musk Snags Top Google Researcher for New AI Non-Profit | WIRED - 0 views

  • Tesla founder Elon Musk, big-name venture capitalist Peter Thiel, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and several other notable tech names have launched a new artificial intelligence startup called OpenAI,
  • OpenAI has the talent to compete with the industry’s top artificial intelligence outfits, including Google and Facebook—but the company has been setup as a non-profit.
  • The apparent aim is to build systems based on deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that has proven extremely adept in recent years at identifying images, recognizing spoken words, translating from one language to another, and, to a certain extent, understanding the natural way that we humans talk.
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  • intend to open source their work, freely sharing it with the world at large. Recently, Google open sourced the core software engine, TensorFlow, that drives its deep learning services, and just this week, Facebook open sourced its deep learning hardware.
  • OpenAI says, its backers have committed $1 billion to the project.
Maria Gurova

These 3D-Printed Pictures Could Help the Blind Experience Classic Art - 0 views

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    technology meets empathy 
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