It's not a new image, but I just saw it popping again on my feed and I had the irresistible urge to get in there, to enjoy this bath during that sunset until I look like a California prune.
GPU maker Nvidia has been riding a wave of renewed relevancy lately as the popularity of deep learning continues to grow. Over the weekend, the company tried to capitalize even more on the craze by releasing a set of libraries called cuDNN that can be integrated directly into popular deep learnin...
Sent via Flipboard
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-fire-phone-smartphone-99-cents-2014-9
Amazon dropped the price of its first smartphone, the Fire phone, from $199 to 99 cents with a two-year contract with AT&T.
Even with the slashed price, the phone still comes with a year of Amazon Prime, which includes free shipping on millions of items as well as a growing selection of free movies, books, and music.
Amazon launched the phone July 25, and it was widely seen as a bit of a flop with slow usage growth, according to market research (Amazon hasn't released any sales numbers).
The phone has two main unique features: Dynamic Perspective, which allows it to react to how it is held, and Firefly, which can scan more than 100 million objects and make it easy to buy them on Amazon.com.
Amazon also announced that Fire phone will be on sale in the U.K. and in Germany starting Sept. 30.
Here's the statement from the company:
Dynamic Perspective, Firefly, world-class customer support with Mayday, free unlimited cloud storage for photos, 32GB of storage—and, for a limited time, customers get 12 months of Prime membership with Fire phone, which includes unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes from Prime Instant Video, access to over a million songs to download or stream from Prime Music, over 500,000 books to borrow from Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and free two-day shipping on tens of mil! lions of items. Now there’s another great reason to buy Fire—it’s just 99 cents with a two-year contract. Customers can purchase Fire on www.amazon.com, www.att.com and in AT&T stores nationwide.
“Fire is now 99 cents with a two-year contract, plus customers get one full year of Prime included,” said Ian Freed, Vice President, Amazon Devices. “With access to all of the Prime content, Mayday, 32GB of memory and free unlimited cloud storage for photos, plus the exclusive Dynamic Perspective and Firefly features, Fire is another example of the value Amazon delivers to customers.”
SEE ALSO: We Wanted To See If People Were Excited About Amazon's Fire Phone — Here's What We Found
Join the conversation about this story »
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/hp-stream/
Don't believe everything you read, kids. When we first saw leaks for the HP Stream, a $199 laptop primarily meant to be used online, like a Chromebook, we were pretty excited -- here was something as affordable as a Chrome OS device, but running full Windows. It turns out, however, that although the Stream is indeed a real product, it's not as cheap as we all thought. HP just formally unveiled it, and it's actually going to start at $300, not $199, as previously reported.
That disappointment aside -- a $199 Windows laptop would have been sweet -- the specs match up perfectly with the rumors. This is a 14-inch machine, with a 1,366 x 768 display, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of local storage and a low-powered AMD A4 Micro processor that allows for a fanless design. On the outside, it looks similar to HP's Android-powered SlateBook, with bright-colored accents, two USB ports (3.0 and 2.0), an HDMI socket and a microSD slot. Even the weight is basically the same, at 3.8 pounds. Similar to how Chromebooks come with 100GB of Google Drive storage, the Stream will include 100GB of OneDrive space, free for two years.
The Stream ships later this month, on September 24th. The higher-than-expected price aside, we still hope to check one out -- ultimately, having more alternatives to Chromebooks is a good thing. Until then, what say you guys? Anyone out there buying? Sound off in the comments.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/sc/intel-realsense-technology-to-change-computers-2014-9
This post is sponsored by Intel.
Imagine you had the ability to video conference your boss at the beach while making it look like you were sitting in your living room. What if you could arrange photos on your computer by flicking your wrist, without even touching the screen? Or your computer could read your face and detect what emotions you were feeling, right at that moment?
While these futuristic abilities sound like scenes straight out of "Minority Report," they actually exist. Since 2012, Intel has invested a great deal of effort into its RealSense program. What Intel refers to as "perceptual computing" allows computers to "see" depth the way the human eye does, using an integrated 3D depth and 2D camera.
Business Insider Studios was recently given a personal tour of Intel's Innovation Lab, located in Santa Clara, to learn more about RealSense 3D technology. Intel's Director of Perceptual Computing Dr. Achin Bhowmik and Application Engineer Dmitry Ivanov led the tour, giving us a glimpse of several demos that showed the 3D camera in action.
"It's about giving the computer the ability to perceive the user and the world," explained Bhowmik. "As humans, we constantly see the world in 3D. We know how far things are, we know the shape of the environment around us. We wanted to add these same human-like senses to the computer to reinvent what the machine does."
What began as a bulky attachment in its beta stage has shrunk into a sliver of a device that can now be embedded into electronic equipment of almost any size. Intel's RealSense technology comes in three forms: a front-facing camera (which captures facial movements, tracks fingers and hands, and detects backgrounds and foregrounds), a rear-facing ca! mera (th at can scan and measure rooms and objects), and a snapshot camera (which can alter photo backgrounds after a photo has been taken).
By the end of 2014, Intel RealSense 3D cameras will come already installed in computer devices made by Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, NEC, and Toshiba, to name a few. Brands like Crayola, Skype, Scholastic, and DreamWorks have plans to incorporate the technology into their individual applications.
Bhowmik thinks computer devices are only the beginning for Intel RealSense technology. "This technology started with laptops and tablets, but we believe that it'll eventually be everywhere," said Bhowmik. "Everything that's autonomous — such as robots and drones — should have senses. The human senses receive information via seeing, hearing, touching, etc., and the human brain processes that information to allow comprehension of the physical world and enable effortless movements and interactions. The same should go for these devices."
Learn more about Intel! 's RealS ense technology.
Stay tuned for Business Insider's coverage of IDF later this week.
Find out more about Sponsor Posts.
Join the conversation about this story »
Posts
