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It’s easy to get caught up in the new, cool thing aspect of transportation tech and apps, but there’s some real social benefit and freedom to be found here. Take, for instance, Moovit’s latest upgrade. The public transportation app recently added features to make it easier for blind users to take transit using VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android) integration. The app… Read More... →

As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physical HoloLens. You can download the emulator now directly from here. […]... →

As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physical HoloLens. You can download the emulator now directly from here. […]... →

Руководитель бюро BuzzFeed в Сан-Франциско Мэт Хонан написал очерк о генеральном директоре Google Сундаре Пичаи. Журналист провёл в общении с ним три месяца — наблюдал за его поведением и пытался понять его взгляды. Редакция vc.ru приводит адаптированный перевод материала.... →

Такси-сервис Gett объявил о приобретении приложения для вызова лондонских кэбов Radio Taxis, с помощью которого принимают заказы более половины традиционных лондонских кэбов. Об этом сообщает Evening Standart. Сумма сделки не разглашается. По данным издания, Gett заплатит за английское приложение «несколько миллионов фунтов стерлингов». Сделка находится на стадии утверждения акционерами Mountview House Group, управляющей компании сервиса Radio Taxis. Приложением Radio Taxis пользуются около 11,5 тысяч водит... →

Microsoft’s recently launched, A.I.-powered bot Tay may have embarrassed the company when Twitter users taught the machine how to be racist, but Microsoft hasn’t given up on the future of bot development. It’s just getting started. At Microsoft’s annual Build conference in San Francisco today, CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the company’s plans to bring the world of… Read More... →

Square Enix is holding an event for the next entry in the Final Fantasy series this evening, but we may already know one of the biggest announcements. Final Fantasy XV will hit PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 30, according to a video from GameSpot that the website has now made private. You can watch […]... →

Square Enix is holding an event for the next entry in the Final Fantasy series this evening, but we may already know one of the biggest announcements. Final Fantasy XV will hit PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 30, according to a video from GameSpot that the website has now made private. It’s likely that […]... →

Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes danced near controversy, emphasizing topics like privacy, but he never challenged these issues head on. There were plenty of issues of the day for Nadella to address. But he was either […]... →

Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes danced near controversy, emphasizing topics like privacy, but never challenged these issues head on. There were plenty of issues for Nadella to address. But he was either too polite to tackle […]... →

In case you thought the recently and abruptly terminated fracas in San Bernardino was an isolated incident, the ACLU has put together a handy map of cases around the country where the All Writs Act has been used to justify an order to unlock a smartphone. Read More... →

Scentbird, the subscription-based service for perfumes and colognes, has added another $2.8 million in venture funding to its $1 million seed round as it launches a new service that expands beyond the subscription model. Read More... →

Most developers are not hesitating to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest graphics programming interface. DirectX 12 is the latest entry in Microsoft’s bundle of APIs (application programming interfaces) for getting the most out of visuals on Windows 10, and it has seen faster adoption among developers than any previous DirectX, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer. During […]... →

Most developers are not hesitating to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest graphics programming interface. DirectX 12 is the latest entry in Microsoft’s bundle of APIs (application programming interfaces) for getting the most out of visuals on Windows 10, and it has seen faster adoption among developers than any previous DirectX, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer. During […]... →

30 марта 2016 года на ежегодной конференции разработчиков Build корпорация Microsoft представила платформу Skype Bot Platform, позволяющую компаниям создавать текстовых и видеоботов для мессенджера.... →

On a recent episode of our podcast we spoke about the VR industry with Matt Hartman, director of seed investments at Betaworks. When evaluating VR companies, Hartman looks for whether the company is delivering a “10X experience.” Ultimately, can you deliver 10 times the value of comparable offerings with your solution? For VR companies, the vision of their given solution may not… Read More... →

Expa, the startup studio led by foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai and Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, has today announced the close of a $100 million fund that will go towards both Expa Studios and Expa Labs, a new incubator. Investors in the fund include Garrett Camp, TPG founder David Bonderman, Li Ka-Shing & Solina Chau, Google board member Ram Shriram, RIT Capital Partners,… Read More... →

The power of the cloud is a bit fuzzy to most of us, but Microsoft wants to improve that by giving developers a series of API tools it has dubbed Cognitive Services to make their software far smarter, including tools for trainable speech-to-text processing and a whole new grade of object recognition. Read More... →

Ритейлер «Евросеть» объявил о снижении цен на смартфоны — в общей сложности акция коснётся 200 моделей, пишут «Ведомости». Ранее газета писала о том, что торговая сеть готовится начать «ценовую войну» с конкурентами.... →

Microsoft today announced updates to its portfolio of machine learning tools. Until now they have fallen under the Project Oxford name, but now they are being rebranded to Microsoft Cognitive Services. The Project Oxford website now redirects to the new Cognitive Services website. In total there are 22 APIs available in Cognitive Services now, said […]... →