Score Snapchat videos with songs from your phone
Have the perfect song in mind for a Snapchat video? Well, now you can play music from your phone while filming it. Thanks to an update, the ephemeral sharing app no longer pauses whatever track is playing while it captures a few seconds of video footage. Of course, the music is recorded with your handset’s built-in mic, so don’t expect high-quality audio. However, you can play tunes stored on the device or streamed from services like. The update is available now for iOS devices, and we expect it’ll arrive for Android soon enough.
Via: TechCrunch
Source: iTunes
MIT’s light-up robot garden teaches you how to code
If you’re teaching kids how to code, what do you do to show that software makes an impact in the real world? MIT has a clever idea: a robot garden. The project lets you control a grid of Arduino-linked “plants” through programming that makes them blossom and light up in pretty (and occasionally mesmerizing) ways. It’ll even teach the virtues of distributed computing — you can tell these leafy robots to bloom or change color in algorithm-driven sequences. The garden is just a demo for now, but it’ll eventually turn into an easy-to-replicate curriculum for students who’d otherwise have to settle for seeing their results on-screen.
[Image credit: Jason Dorfman, CSAIL]
Filed under: Science, Software
Source: MIT News
NVIDIA Shield Tablet updates to v2.2, brings better battery life and more goodies to the gaming tablet
Looks like today is double awesome for NVIDIA Shield Tablet owners. As part of #SHIELDTuesday we alerted you guys that Saints Row IV was pushed to the NVIDIA Streaming service GRID. NVIDIA is also pushing out an update to the software on the Shield Tablet today as well. The update still keeps the tablet at […]
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Google Play Music finally equips iPads with its tunes
Even if you prefer iOS, Google Play Music is still a solid option for getting your personal library and access to streaming all in one place. That is, until Apple reveals its plans for Beats Music. While we wait for that announcement, though, Mountain View’s tune-minded app does double duty nicely, and now it properly outfits the iPad. The new version comes with a fresh coat of Material Design, of course, but you’ll still have to contend with Google’s rather frustrating method for uploading files. If you haven’t already been prompted to update, the latest is now available over at iTunes.
Via: The Verge
Source: iTunes
Tweetdeck lets you share accounts without sharing passwords
Until now, if you wanted to share Twitter log-in credentials with members of your team, it meant sharing a password. Thanks to TweetDeck, you no longer have to use the same info. The 140-character social network now offers TweetDeck Teams for its popular app: a tool that allows groups to employ the same account with admin and contributor roles. When you need to add a colleague to the social workload, all you have to do is authorize that user, and once they accept the invite, they’ll be good to go. As you might expect, access can be revoked at any time by the admin, and those folks have control over the password. Contributors can tweet, follow/unfollow, schedule tweets and make lists, but they won’t have any access outside of the app. The new feature starts rolling out today for TweetDeck on the web, Chrome and Windows.
[Image credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images]
Filed under: Internet, Software
Source: Twitter
#SHIELDTuesday brings in Saints Row IV to NVIDIA GRID services, next up Alan Wake and Metro Last Light Redux
Happy SHIELDTuesday everyone. If you are the proud owner of a NVIDIA Shield tablet or Shield Portable, then SHIELDTuesday is a day you might look forward too every week. It is the day that NVIDIA adds another title to the game streaming service, GRID. This weeks addition brings in Saints Row IV. The fun won’t stop there of course. […]
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Australian Samsung Galaxy Note Edge gets Android 5.0.1 Lollipop
The race is on across the globe to get Android 5.0 Lollipop out to consumers. HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung have certainly upped their game this year with many devices already getting Lollipop. On the Samsung front we have seen Lollipop make its way to the Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy […]
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Sprint begins roll out of Android 5.0 to LG G3
Almost a week ago AT&T began pushing out the OTA update for the LG G3 that moved the device to Android 5.0 Lollipop. It is usually safe to assume that once one carrier starts, the rest will soon follow. The real questions are who will be next and when will it start. Today Sprint is […]
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Microsoft’s imaging tech is (sometimes) better than you at spotting objects
Many computer vision projects struggle to mimic what people can achieve, but Microsoft Research thinks that its technology might have already trumped humanity… to a degree, that is. The company has published results showing that its neural network technology made fewer mistakes recognizing objects than humans in an ImageNet challenge, slipping on 4.94 percent of pictures versus 5.1 percent for humans. One of the keys was a “parametric rectified linear unit” function (try saying that three times fast) that improves accuracy without any real hit to processing performance.
You aren’t about to get many keen-sighted artificial intelligences just yet. Microsoft is quick to note that its vision system (like others) excels in tests like these, where there are subtle distinctions that flesh-and-bone observers can’t always see. Computers are more likely to goof up with simpler recognition tasks, like identifying barnyard animals. Still, it’s noteworthy that software emerged victorious in the first place. Besides leading to smarter photo software that’s better at organizing your vacation shots, the improved detection should help autonomous robots and other devices that need to make snap decisions based on what they see.
Filed under: Science, Internet, Software, Microsoft
Via: GigaOM
Source: arXiv.org, Inside Microsoft Research
Is Android Lollipop more stable than iOS 8? Crittercism seems to think so
In the endless war between Android and iOS, we’re at a pretty interesting juncture where Android has had quite a sizeable overhaul in Android Lollipop and iOS has had its usual yearly improvements in iOS 8. Stability has always been paramount to both platforms but considering that Android Lollipop is just a few months old, […]
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