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Reading lips is a skill usually reserved for fictional spies or the hearing impaired, but researchers have spent years trying to gift the talent to computers, too. A device capable of automated lip-reading would certainly be a game changer, raising questions of personal privacy while simultaneously
The vocabulary we use to describe music can be tough enough for a human to grok (really, what does it mean when a guitar riff is “crunchy”?) but a team of tinkerers from Birmingham City University aren’t interested in helping people understand that language. Nope, instead, theyR
Just last week Sony took the wraps off two new mobile devices – the Sony Xperia Z3 and the Xperia Z3 Compact. The former will be Sony’s latest flagship while the latter will be a slightly smaller version with slightly different specs. Now the good news is that if you’ve had your eye on either [&hell
Apple fans aren’t the only ones who have had an exciting week for news, cord cutters now have reason to cheer as well. Quartz reports that Jeff Bewkes, the CEO of HBO parent company Time Warner, told an investment conference this week that his company is “seriously considering” whether it wants to s
When someone says “exoskeleton,” it’s easy to imagine a clunky contraption made of metal, like the one we typically see in the news courtesy of various research groups, or in movies like Edge of Tomorrow. The exoskeleton that Harvard’s Wyss Institute is developing, though, do
What would happen if you pulled some of the best features from Nikon’s D810, and others from the company’s flagship D4S, and put them all inside a smaller, lighter body? You’d get the D750: a new, full-frame DSLR from Nikon that slots in between the D610 and D810. Replacing the finely aged D700, thi
Global computing giant Intel announced at its annual developers’ conference that 2015 will see the arrival of laptops and tablet devices with 3D sensing capabilities instead of traditional webcams. Intel first let word out about RealSense at CES 2014 (Consumer Electronics Show) where it showed
Back in 2008, in the days of the BlackBerry Storm, netbooks and well, yes, Yahoo, the internet company was threatened with a hefty $250,000 per day fine from the US government. This was because it didn’t want to comply with requests to hand over user communications. Yahoo believed that the req
It looks like a standard SD card, but SanDisk’s new Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card is noteworthy, by packing 512GB into its flat frame, it’s the highest capacity SD card available to consumers. The company says the huge card is aimed at pro-level photographers and videographers who w
The wearable device market is quickly becoming saturated. Many companies trying their luck in this market are sticking with smartwatches while a few like Google have also tried to make smartglasses a thing. Don’t count BlackBerry out. The company is conducting internal research on different wearable
Intel has unveiled the thinnest tablet computer in the world in partnership with Dell. The new tablet will come with the Android operating system. The Dell Venue 8 7000 series tablet comes with a 8.4-inch 2560×1600 OLED display and is just 6 mm thick. The device will also feature an Intel RealS
A couple of months back a leaked memo from BlackBerry revealed that the company is now on growth footing once again. Since then it has made a couple of acquisitions, including the one it announced today, of a virtual SIM startup called Movirtu. This startup, which is based in London, works on techno
