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- Fallout Wedding Cake Topper Proves Love Can Bloom Anywhere
- Google Buys Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind for $400M
- Pulse Wallet Could Eradicate Passwords, Make Your Data Safer
- Galaxy Gear 2 and Galaxy Glass Reportedly Launching This Year
- Jessica Nigri As The Perfect Link From Legend of Zelda
| Fallout Wedding Cake Topper Proves Love Can Bloom Anywhere Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  Being in a wasteland doesn’t mean there’s no room for love to blossom, and this cake is a celebration of that: love pure as pre-nuclear water. Reddit user Slaughterminx showed this cake topper from his own wedding at /r/fallout and amazed all of us with it, so we just wanted to share with our community too. This might be the first time we see a pip-girl, or even a dark-haired pip-boy, but hey, they are faithful to the original style and look pretty cool at that, so you won’t get any complaints from us. Source: When Geeks Wed See more food and yummies at Happiness At The Borderlands: Claptrap Cake Toppers and The Donkey Kong Projection Wedding Cake Is Deliciously Geeky.         |
| Google Buys Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind for $400M Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:30 AM PST  Since Google’s recent shopping list includes companies that specialized in robotics, home automation, and artificial intelligence, it has become pretty clear that the search giant is going for world domination in more than one way. Google’s most recent acquisitions suggest that the company might soon manufacture robots and smart appliances for your smart home. However, there might be another layer to Google buying DeepMind Technologies. As this AI company’s website says, “We combine the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms.” In this context, it might be more logical to assume that Google’s latest investment is in search, not in robots. re/code, the first news outlet to break the news about this acquisition, pointed out that it won’t be Andy Rubin who will work closely with DeepMind, but Google search guru Jeff Dean. Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android Inc., has been appointed last month as head of the robotics division at Google, so if the company decided to take the “world domination” route, naming him instead of Jeff Dean would have made much more sense. One of the Google X projects involving artificial intelligence was supervised by Jeff Dean, so choosing him is the proper thing to do. More precisely, the Google X project involved a 16,000 core neural network that analyzed thousands of cat videos and eventually created an image of what it thought a cat looked like. As mentioned by The Information, DeepMind imposed a condition before giving away the keys to their company. Google has to establish an ethics board so that the artificial intelligence technology isn’t used for the wrong purposes. In other words, DeepMind didn’t really take Google’s motto, “Don’t be evil,” for granted. Another interesting piece of information is that Facebook also had its eyes on DeepMind and personally, I’m glad to see that it’s Google who is emerging victorious. It’s pretty obvious that both companies could make use of technologies that enable computers to think more like humans, but Google has more possible applications for artificial intelligence than Facebook. In the context of the ethics board, DeepMind might be more concerned about how artificial intelligence could affect privacy, rather than its possible implementation in robots that take over the world. It would probably be wiser not to erase that last option, just yet. If you liked this post, please check the patent cross-licensing agreement made by Google and Samsung    |
| Pulse Wallet Could Eradicate Passwords, Make Your Data Safer Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  In an era where password losses and cyber hacking is more prevalent than ever, the Pulse Wallet could make your handprint a key.
Is there anything quite as untrustworthy as the modern password? The sign up screen on a site tells us to ‘use something memorable’ and for us to be sure to ‘include a mixture of symbols and numbers for added safety!’ and so we do. But computers are smarter than our password creating brain sectors ever could be and are able to crack just about any amalgamation of our mother’s maiden names and our dates of birth if you input the relevant data and give it about 5 minutes (though even 30 seconds of computing time would be generous). What computers and real life hackers can’t do easily, however is replicate your hands entire structure, veins, vessels, prints and all, which is why the newly announced ‘Pulse Wallet’ could be one of the safest locking methods around. Shown off at CES 2014, the Pulse Wallet works by using an infrared camera to scan not your prints (e.g the fingerprint of your palm) but your actual vein pattern. A vein pattern, unlike a fingerprint, is much harder to copy as the infrared camera isn’t analysing anything above the surface, it’s looking for what’s under your skin and therefore without some serious study or some almost unimaginably intelligent technology, it would be difficult to copy. The likelihood of seeing the Pulse Wallet in stores and banks around the world is quite a high one as it’s already in use in cash machines in Brazil and Japan meaning that while they might be well ahead of the curve, there’s every chance that the rest of the world’s pin code protected devices might not be far behind. We’ll keep you posted once we know more. Source: BBC Read more on walyou, Myo Wristband Uses Muscle Impulses to Control Remote Objects, Toshiba SmartWatch Takes Your Pulse, Displays Maps and Weather    |
| Galaxy Gear 2 and Galaxy Glass Reportedly Launching This Year Posted: 28 Jan 2014 04:30 AM PST  Seeing that the feedback for its first smartwatch wasn’t entirely positive, Samsung started working on the second generation, as well as on a pair of smart glasses dubbed Galaxy Glass, rumor has it. Galaxy Gear didn’t get criticized only for its slightly hideous design, but also for the mediocre specs, especially considering its price tag. Samsung plans to change all that by improving the features and the technologies implemented in this wearable. Remember the curved display used in the not-so-popular Galaxy Round? Well, Galaxy Gear 2 is said to include the same flexible OLED. I have to admit, a curved screen makes much more sense in a smartwatch than in a smartphone. Google, Apple and LG have yet to release their own smartwatches (the latter got a shot at wearable tech with its Lifeband Touch), but this doesn’t mean that Samsung’s Galaxy Gear lacks competition. There are plenty of smart watches out there that serve various purposes, from displaying notifications to tracking fitness stats. In this context, Galaxy Gear 2 would have to pack some serious features in order to catch the eye of the market. Adjustments would have to be made in the design, software, and even the battery life of the device. Pictured above is a patent that brought Samsung an award in Korea last year. The fact that rumors about smart glasses made by the South Korean company emerge the day after Samsung and Google announced their patent cross-licensing deal should make one think. Galaxy Glass would undoubtedly run Android (after all, this piece of wearable tech would be part of the Galaxy family), and the only way Samsung would not turn into Google’s competitor was if each pair of smart glasses served different purposes. Indeed, the above blueprint suggests that Galaxy Gear could be used for sports, but no one says Samsung is bound to use that design for its smart glasses. While the next generation of Galaxy Gear is said to launch either in March or April, according to the rumors, Galaxy Glass will be revealed in September at the IFA show in Berlin. I wish these rumors were true, since these two wearables would push this industry to even newer heights. It also remains to be seen how Samsung’s competitors will react, but in the end, the consumers are the greatest winners of this technological race. If you liked this post, please check the smart glasses that enable nurses to see through your skin and the Tuit NFC security ring.    |
| Jessica Nigri As The Perfect Link From Legend of Zelda Posted: 28 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST  If we can get over the fact that Link is actually both a lefty and a man, we’ll learn to appreciate this incredible cosplay by Jessica Nigri by what it truly is: a masterpiece! If you have any interest at all in cosplay, you might be familiar with the name Jessica Nigri, for she’s probably the biggest name in the scene. Jessica is a cosplayer, model and over-all celebrity who now delights us with her very own vision of the Hero of Time, Link from The Legend of Zelda. In these pictures we even get to see her with Lindsay Elyse as her very own personal Navi. We would have preferred a Midna, personally, but you can just not argue with a classic, and that’s just what these two ladies have created. Congrats to the both of them! Read more stories at Steampunk Catwoman Cosplay Featuring Its-Raining-Neon and Incredible Lightning Cosplay (FFXIII) by Neko-tin.    |
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