Technology

Nokia winding down its high-end virtual reality camera division The Ozo and its follow-up the Ozo +, have been marketed to professionals as being able to capture the “highest quality” 360-degree footage possible, and have been used by Disney among others. Even though after price cuts, the company indicated that sales have been weaker than expected.    According to a report Nokia stated that it now planned to dedicate its efforts to developing smart health products instead, and would leave it to others to build on its work in VR. Due to the outcome of the market, Nokia Technologies plans to reduce investment and focus more on technology licensing opportunities. As Ben Wood from the CCS insight tech consultancy commented, ”The Ozo has clearly been a much smaller niche product than Nokia anticipated.” This technology was on early stage and users found that to process the content takes long time, and became challenging. Also 360-degree con...

Google is not far from Apple's heels and is constantly evolving. The Internet and the tech giant have just announced a new family-enabled device and it comes with pretty interesting features.  Google Pixel Buds is similar to Apple's AirPod listeners with several notable exceptions, including the excellent ability to translate 40 languages with just one keystroke or phrase phrase, such as "help me speak Spanish". This option is only possible when the headset is merged with the Google Pixel 2 phone, which shows how Google directly tries to compete with Apple in the smartphone area. The headphones can be used by Google's Google Artificial Intelligence Assistant. According to Google CEO Sunder Pichai: "We have improved the ability to translate more in this one year from all of our improvements over the last 10 years." Mobile technologies are increasingly being developed to integr...

The Boeing giant bought the Aurora Flight Sciences company, focused on the development of autonomous electric aircraft. The move confirms Boeing's commitment to realizing his first unmanned commercial passenger vehicle in reality. Aurora received a significant number of awards in 2016, when the Agency for Advanced Research Projects awarded a contract for the construction of a landing and take-off aircraft (VTOL) X-Plane. Uber also hired the firm to help build their flying fees. This merger will allow to combine the expertise of a proven autonomous manufacturer of electric aircraft that has built and driven more than 30 vehicles without pilots in their 20 years of existence and the Boeing giant that has invested in aeronautics for more than a century. Such a combination can lead to the first fully autonomous electric aircraft. The development of flying vehicles is likely to continue to move up, especially now that Boeing is annou...

The power of computers grows daily. The technology develops at an incredible speed, and sometimes we even fear the extent to which it will not transmit. Computers today can do amazing things, such as even simulating the human brain. These supercomputers are considered the most powerful computers in the world.    1. Sunway TaihuLight Currently ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer, Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer measures 125 petaFLOPS (theoretical peak) - five times faster than the supercomputer in second place.  It is located in the National Supercomputer Center in Wuxi, it consists of 10.6 million cores and is used for climate research, modeling of ground systems and data analysis. In addition to being the fastest supercomputer in the world, Sunway TaihuLight is currently ranked as the fourth most efficient energy supercomputer because it requires significantly less megawatts per megaFLOPS.    2.  Piz Daint (2017) ...

The new technology, described as "revolutionary", promises to turn every object into a remote control. With this technology you could change channels with your finger, reduce the tone with the lamp, and even change the settings with the guitar. Researchers at Lancaster University will present their paper "Matchpoint": spontaneous spatial merging of the body's body for infinite pointing, this month at the UIST2017 conference in Quebec. This paper describes the technique that is being innovated to allow interaction between the movement (whether it is a human movement of an object's movement) and screens, making this technology possible. Matchpoint technology is relatively easy to operate. Like its predecessors, it requires a webcam. To work, the user connects to a screen that will display a circular widget with menu items around the circle. This interaction between the movement and the screen is described as a ...

Another year, another chance to improve lives around the world.  This year’s Social Good Summit, held at the historic 92nd Street Y in New York, was a whirlwind of inspiration. A full roster of panelists included changemakers, global citizens, and progressive thought leaders from around the world. Collectively, they inspired a packed audience with ideas on some of the tangible changes we can make to the world around us in our lifetime.  Held during the United Nations General Assembly week, Social Good Summit attendees met to discuss the state of the world today and how it could look by the year 2030.  Among the many companies in attendance was health technology company Philips, who discussed the work it does with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). While there, Philips also unveiled a new consumer initiative called Better Me, Better World . Better Me, Better World provides consumers with personal ben...

Now that iOS 11 is out, augmented reality apps are becoming some of the most entertaining apps in the App Store, thanks to Apple's ARKit.  While we've seen AR apps meant to help you buy furniture or bring children's books to life,Holo's take on the new feature will be more familiar to fans of Snapchat.  The app allows you to record videos with 3D "holograms" (which is how 3D animations are referred to in the app) of animals, movie characters, and celebrities overlaid onto your surroundings. Similar to Snapchat's dancing Bitmoji lenses, you can reposition and resize Holo's animations as you're recording. Unlike Snapchat, which only has a handful of animated lenses available at any given time, Holo has a large collection of "holograms" you can you can tap into, from high-fiving tigers to a facepalming Spider-Man. The company says it's working to keep its selection updated with new characters regularly.  On...