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Facebook will soon support 360-degree videos in the News Feed and on Oculus

Posted in Online on 26th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will soon support 'spherical' 360-degree videos in its Newsfeed.

A 'visual Turing test' of a computer's understanding of images

Posted in Featured, Software on 13th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

A new way to evaluate how well computers can understand the relationships between objects in photographs, videos, and other images.

Deep learning startup Clarifai offers video analysis

Posted in Software on 1st Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller

A startup with a service for recognizing images, today introduced a pretty nifty new capability. Now their technology can quickly point out the things that appear in videos.

Be My Eyes app lets you lend your eyes to the blind

Posted in Software on 31st Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Be My Eyes is a new mobile app that aims to help blind people in situations where they need to see something.

Robots can now learn to cook just like you do: by watching YouTube videos

Posted in Online on 4th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers have come up with a new way to teach robots how to use tools simply by watching videos on YouTube.