Google buys translator app Word Lens -- and now it's free

Google has acquired Quest Visual and its top translator app Word Lens, according to a statement on the Quest Visual site. One immediate benefit for everyone is that the app -- and its language packs -- are now free to download, although apparently "for a limited time" only. If you’ve not seen Word Lens before, it’s an impressive app which (almost) instantly translates printed words with your iOS/ Android device’s camera. We’re not just talking about grabbing an image and displaying an OCR translation elsewhere, either. Word Lens actually replaces the words in the picture with their translated version, so… [Continue Reading]



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F1 | Haas verso il debutto nel 2015 con telai Dallara e motori Ferrari

20 maggio 2014 – Tra il consueto scetticismo che regna nel paddock della F1, il Team Haas, che ogni probabilità debutterà nel Circus al massimo entro il 2016, sta continuando la propria marcia di avvicinamento alla serie iridata.

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Lambdas in C++11

A feature long in coming greatly reduces boilerplate code.



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Lucid dreams on-demand

Alternating current across the skull during REM sleep makes regular dreams lucid.



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This treadmill lets you walk in any direction

No, that's not a detached tank tread you're looking at, it's a treadmill -- and it doesn't care which direction you're walking. It's called the Infinadeck, and we found it hiding in a dark corner of the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo. Each of...



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Four short links: 20 May 2014

Basics of Machine Learning Course Notes — slides and audio from university course. Watch along on YouTube. A Primer on Deep Learning — a very quick catch-up on WTF this is all about. 3D Printers Have a Lot to Learn …



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New eye-tracking glasses show others what you're looking at in real time

Researchers and marketers often want to know what catches your eye, whether it's players on the basketball court or just a new shampoo at the store. They may have an easier time figuring this out with Tobii's latest eye-tracking headset, the Tobii...



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Four short links: 19 May 2014

Your Coffee Machine is Watching You (Mary Beard) — the future of surveillance isn’t more CCTV cameras, it’s every device ratting you out, all the time. Economics of Apologies — apologies work to restore relationships but are costly for the …



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Google Glass’ lead electrical engineer Adrian Wong joins Oculus VR

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Now you can play a virtual Game Boy inside the Oculus Rift

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Get 3rd Degree Connection Information From LinkedIn for Free

LinkedIn is a great way to expand your network or find key people at a company. If you don't have a shared contact with someone on LinkedIn, however, you can't view that person's full contact information. Here is how to work around the limitation without paying for LinkedIn Premium.

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Parrot Bebop Drone : pilotable avec l'Oculus Rift jusqu'à 2 km

Vous avez surement déjà entendu parlé de Parrot, la société française spécialisée dans les produits high-tech et notamment ses drones pilotables via des terminaux mobiles sous Android ou iOS. L'entreprise vient de lancer un nouveau drone qui semble vraiment intéressant et qui permet notamment d'être piloté via le casque de réalité virtuelle Oculus Rift, et ce, jusqu'à une distance de 2 km... [Tout lire]



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TDD your API (@steveklabnik)

"It’s hard to get any complex software system behavior correct. So far, we’ve found that these external tests give us a really nice forum for working out these kinds of issues. They also give us something to share with our customers, and a way to ask for advice from experts outside of the company."

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Unreal Engine 4.2 update to add vehicles, blueprints and more

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Altova MobileTogether Is Free

Custom-built mobile solutions accessible on any mobile device



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Four short links: 16 May 2014

Mozilla’s Winter of Security — Students who have to perform a semester project as part of their university curriculum can apply to one of the MWOS project. Projects are guided by a Mozilla Adviser, and a University Professor. Students are …



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quand on nous demande si on sera prêt à passer en prod la semaine prochaine

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Buonanotte

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Four short links: 15 May 2014

Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack (Tim Bray) — if your ap­pli­ca­tion doesn’t sup­port pri­va­cy, that’s prob­a­bly a bug in your ap­pli­ca­tion. Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME — essentially, “we don’t want to put a closed source bolus of …



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This Wild Map Redraws the World Using Airport Locations

The map of the world finds the exact midpoint between any two airports.

















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