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ARKit 3 Brings People Occlusion, Motion Capture, and More
ARKit 3, recently announced at WWDC 2019, moves further into the direction of more immersive augmented reality experiences by adding support for integrating people with virtual objects and injecting human motion into the AR experience. Other new features in ARKit 3 are multiple face tracking, support for simultaneous use of front and back camera, and collaborative sessions.
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Splunk Releases Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow
Data analytics organisation, Splunk, recently released Splunk Connected Experiences which delivers insights through augmented reality (AR), mobile devices like Apple TV, and mobile applications. They also released Splunk Business Flow which enables business operations professionals to gain insights across their customer journeys and business processes.
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Microsoft Launches Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity System
Recently launched in preview by Microsoft, ION is a Decentralized Identifier (DID) network that runs on top of Bitcoin and aims to provide a decentralized identity system and PKI at scale.
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Introducing Interoperable Blockchain Identity Solutions with Hyperledger Aries
In a recent blog post, the Hyperledger project announced their 13th project called Hyperledger Aries, which provides an interoperable identity management toolkit that enables creating, transmitting and storing verifiable digital certificates. Using this toolkit, organizations can support, secure, interoperable peer-to-peer messaging across different distributed ledger technologies (DLT).
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Making Robots More Intelligent, Microsoft Releases Autonomous Systems Platform
At the recent Build conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced, in limited preview, an end-to-end toolchain to help developers and organizations build autonomous systems for their industries. The platform includes machine teaching tools and simulation technologies that enable intelligent robotic systems to complete tasks like running autonomous forklifts and robotic inspection platforms.
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Microsoft Open-Sources CCF Framework to Improve Blockchain Ledgers Throughput and Latency
Microsoft Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) is an open-source framework aiming to enable the creation of blockchain ledgers that can execute transactions with throughput and latency similar to those of a centralized database, says Microsoft.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Q#, its Language for Quantum Computing
At its Build 2019 conference, Microsoft announced it will open-source parts of its Quantum Developer Kit, including the Q# compiler and quantum simulators, this summer on GitHub.
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Fully Managed Blockchain Networks with Amazon Managed Blockchain Now Generally Available
Introduced at the AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon Managed Blockchain has left preview and reached general availability. This new service aims to simplify creating and managing scalable blockchain networks based on Hyperledger Fabric and, soon, Ethereum.
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W3C Publishes WebXR Draft Specification for Direct Web Interaction with Immersive Hardware
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published draft specifications for WebXR. The WebXR Device API seeks to provide "the interfaces necessary to enable developers to build compelling, comfortable, and safe immersive applications on the web across a wide variety of hardware form factors".
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Google Expands ML Kit, Adds Smart Reply and Language Identification
In a recent Android blog post, Google announced the release of two new Natural Language Processing (NLP) features for ML Kit, including Language Identification and Smart Reply. In both cases, Google is providing domain-independent APIs that help developers analyze and generate text, speak and other types of Natural Language text.
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Introducing TensorFlow Privacy, a New Machine Learning Library for Protecting Sensitive Data
In a recent blog post, TensorFlow announced TensorFlow Privacy, an open source library that allows researchers and developers to build machine learning models that have strong privacy. Using this library ensures user data are not remembered through the training process based upon strong mathematical guarantees.
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OpenXR 0.90 Aims to Solve AR/VR Fragmentation
The Khronos Group has published the first OpenXR specification and API with version number 0.90. OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) platforms and devices that aims to simplify AR/VR software development on multiple platforms and devices.
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IBM May Have Found a Path to Dealing with Decoherence in Current Quantum Computers
In a recent Nature paper, researchers from IBM and other institutions devised two quantum algorithms to train a quantum support vector machine (SVM) classifier and proposed a novel approach to dealing with decoherence and noise in current quantum hardware.
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The Risk of Climate Change and What Tech Can Do: QCon London Q&A
Data centres create more emissions than the aviation industry due to energy usage and 24x7 availability, and the growth of the cloud computing and mining of cryptocurrencies is increasing the impact technology has on our climate. Moving existing servers to providers who use renewable sources of electricity could lead to planet-wide climate improvements. A QCon Q&A with Jason Box and Paul Johnston.
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Facebook Open-Sources DeepFocus, Bringing More Realistic Images to Virtual Reality
In a recent blog post, Facebook announced they have open-sourced DeepFocus, an AI powered framework for improving focus on close objects. This technology ensures nearby objects are in-focus, while distant objects appear out of focus, much like cinematic experiences. DeepFocus takes advantage of an end-to-end convolutional neural network that produces an accurate retinal blur in near real-time.