Tag: recognition
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HSBC To Roll Out Biometric Mobile Banking
Mobile phone systems are becoming increasingly more science fiction, as new gadgets and gizmos give us the ability to control them in even more exciting ways. This time it’s HSBC’s mobile app which will now allow users to register their online banking transactions via fingerprints and voice recognition. SEE ALSO: BBC Three Moves to…
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Google Teases Android L Security Features
Google’s new version of Android, Android L, or Lollipop, is set to become the latest and greatest addition to the Google smartphone OS lineup. of course, other, older Android systems will be lingering around on the market in various capacities once Lollipop arrives, but as far as Google’s concerned the new OS represents the current…
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Amazon Fire Phone Coming to UK on O2
Amazon’s new Fire Phone, with its revolutionary set of four face sensing front cameras, is currently only available for customers in the United States since its launch a number of weeks ago on AT&T. The phone is Amazon’s most noteworthy foray into the technology market, and has taken its sweet time to arrive in the…
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Apple Acquires Novauris Speech Recognition for a Siri boost
Possibly as a quick way to upgrade Siri to compete with Microsoft’s new Cortana speech recognising assistant, Apple has acquired speech recognition company Novauris, who for a while have been working on speech spftware that allows the user to work offline – meaning that in the future Siri could be used without an active internet…
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How to turn off Face Tag recognition on a Samsung Galaxy SIII and Note 2
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 are two of the best smartphones on the market and are packed with features to make just about everything in life better; from the natural features to help you manage your calls to the ability to open two apps at once and split them. However,…
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Facebook Buys Face.com – Does Facial Recognition Database Pose New Threat to Our Online Safety?
Following a recent $1-billion deal to buy Instagram, the world dominating social network Facebook has now snapped up the small Israeli-based software company which created and runs the Face.com website – featuring a software which can recognise the faces of our friends and family from stored information on the website’s database. High-profile business site Reuters…
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Facebook Rumoured to be Buying Face.com
Mark Zuckerberg and co. are looking to splash the cash once again…
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Microsoft’s New SDK for Xbox Kinect: Motion Accessory Now Captures & Reacts to Facial Expressions
Microsoft’s latest developer toolkit for the Xbox Kinect Motion Sensor Accessory allows advance
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Microsoft’s New SDK for Xbox Kinect: Motion Accessory Now Captures & Reacts to Facial Expressions
Microsoft’s latest developer toolkit for the Xbox Kinect Motion Sensor Accessory allows advance
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Only in Japan! – Far East Has Tech Licked with Tongue Sensing Interface for Kinect
When it comes to tech it’s no secret that the Japanese give the rest of the world a good licking, but now they’ve really taken that idea too far with research currently on-going to develop of a tongue motion-capture interface for the Microsoft Kinect! A team at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan is…
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REEL TO REAL ► Mission: Impossible Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Developed By Microsoft & University of Washington
The Gadget Helpline‘s REEL TO REAL is a new regular feature to the blog, aimed at tech and film fanatics, which will reveal how the sci-fi and futuristic gadgets we see on screen in movies and television are making their way into real-life. Take a seat, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show! If you’ve…
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REEL TO REAL ► Mission: Impossible Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Developed By Microsoft & University of Washington
The Gadget Helpline‘s REEL TO REAL is a new regular feature to the blog, aimed at tech and film fanatics, which will reveal how the sci-fi and futuristic gadgets we see on screen in movies and television are making their way into real-life. Take a seat, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show! If you’ve…