Nokia has announced plans to acquire Withings — a French consumer electronics company focused on digital health — for €170 million ($191 million) in cash. The acquisition will significantly boost...

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich published what could only be called a manifesto describing how Intel is now a company that powers the cloud and billions of connected computing devices. And the PC? It's just another 'connected thing' in this new world order.

We present a novel technique to simplify sketch drawings based on learning a series of convolution operators. In contrast to existing approaches that require vector images as input, we allow the more general and challenging input of rough raster sketches such as those obtained from scanning pencil sketches. We convert the rough sketch into a simplified version which is then amendable for vectorization. This is all done in a fully automatic way without user intervention. Our model consists of a fully convolutional neural network which, unlike most existing convolutional neural networks, is able to process images of any dimensions and aspect ratio as input, and outputs a simplified sketch which has the same dimensions as the input image. In order to teach our model to simplify, we present a new dataset of pairs of rough and simplified sketch drawings. By leveraging convolution operators in combination with efficient use of our proposed dataset, we are able to train our sketch simplification model. Our approach…

Video games pioneer Nolan Bushnell is planning to revive the ‘hardcore fundamental game design’ of arcades to make mobile titles worth playing

Check out and like also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qnTaAz-xtQ&index=13&list=PLuOoXrWK6Kz5ySULxGMtAUdZEg9SkXDoq

This video was realized within Flow Machines, a project by Sony CSL, in collaboration with UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
Flow Machines received  funding  from  the  European  Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)  /  ERC  Grant Agreement  n. 291156.

The various harmonizations of Beethoven's Ode to Joy were realized using different prototypes developed in the project.

- The Bossa Nova accompaniment was produced using original guitar recordings of François Pachet and recomposed using an improved concatenative synthesis algorithm designed by Mathieu Ramona and François Pachet

- The Lounge harmonization was produced from transcriptions of lounge theme (Cookie Raver by Illumination) transcribed by Alexandre Tanguy, and transformed using an algorithm developed by François Pachet and Pierre Roy

- The jazz 6-voices harmonization was…

Easily create automated workflows with Microsoft Power Automate, previously Microsoft Flow, to improve productivity with business process automation

WhatsApp is now back online in Brazil! Your voices have been heard once again. Thank you to our community for helping resolve this.

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This is project allows Android clients to communicate using iMessage - bboyairwreck/PieMessage

This post was written by Jeff Sandquist, General Manager in the Cloud + Enterprise Division. Today we’re announcing the preview release of our new documentation service https://docs.microsoft.com, showcasing content supporting our Enterprise Mobility products.  Why docs.microsoft.com? In short, content matters. We interviewed and surveyed hundreds

The FBLearner Flow platform puts state-of-the-art algorithms in AI and machine learning at the fingertips of every Facebook engineer.

Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine (DSSTNE) is an Amazon developed library for building Deep Learning (DL) machine learning (ML) models  - amzn/amazon-dsstne

Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr quietly launched a new program today called Tumblr Labs that will allow users to opt-in to testing out new and experimental features on the site. Some of the initial experiments are of a more frivolous nature – like being about to change the color of a post on your Dashboard, for […]