DNN-assisted colorization of images
There has been previous work on automatic colorization of images, a fairly impressive process that takes a black and white…
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Yes, telephony networks have a critical, underlying flaw. Unfortunately, so do IP networks.
Motherboard recently ran an article discussing how lobbyists for telecom companies were arguing that the vulnerabilities in their networks due…
Nokia 8 pictures, details leak… looks cheaper than the 6?
VentureBeat has a piece on the upcoming Nokia 8, HMD’s flagship entry. It lists the customary high-end specs expected; Snapdragon…
Oculus makes news for planning rumoured wireless headset. Join the club.
The unfortunately beleaguered headset maker Facebook Oculus made the news at Bloomberg for a rumoured wireless headset that, according to…
Hey Google vs OK Google: The screen makes an impact, but the logic is also subtly different
Thanks to the Nokia 6, I am now in possession of a Google Assistant phone. This gave me the perfect…
TensorFlow SSE 4.1 and other CPU flags: recompiling is easier than it seems
When running TensorFlow using the official binaries, something that will happen more often now that macOS builds no longer support…
IBM’s Watson Speech-To-Text censors Dick Van Dyke’s… surname.
IBM’s Watson Speech-to-Text comes with a built-in profanity filter. Unfortunately, Dick Van Dyke, a name that is the bane of profanity filters everywhere, apparently, has ended up on the wrong side of the censoring wall once more.
The World May Be Headed for a Fragmented ‘Splinternet’
Davey Alba at Wired muses that we are headed towards a “splinternet”: an internet that is different depending on the country of origin. There are two unfortunate realities to this. First, this is already true, in his own acknowledgement. Second, it is inevitable. What’s worrying isn’t that there are different internets; it’s that there’s a max-censored one.
Kubernetes already the de-facto standard? For hybrid-cloud-loving enterprises, maybe in the future
CoreOS recently commissioned a study to show the usage of containers in the clouds where they discuss how many enterprises are using Kubernetes, and how this is spearheading a move to hybrid clouds. Interesting, I thought, and take a look.
Google Home: A very, very quick followup on evolution
Yesterday’s entry on Google Home has been viewed over 10,000 times at the time of writing. The data collection, however,…