Viber Communities; the New Virtual Chat Room Service from Viber

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Viber’s messaging application announced the new virtual chat room service with the potential of a billion members. Viber announced the launch of Viber Communities and is the first messaging application to create a virtual group chat room where up to a billion users can exchange messages Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Will video calls be the new trend in Instagram?

©Provided by: Attica Publications There are some users out there who have anticipated the chatrooms of MIRC and Yahoo’s Messenger – but that’s really an ancient story. Since now the game is played elsewhere. With chat have become videochat and Snapchat -despite all the difficulties it faces- do break in Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Artificial eye changes focus in real time, as the human

© naftemporiki.gr As the Harvard Gazette notes, the metalens controls at the same time three of the biggest “blurring” factors: focusing, astigmatism and image shifting. Inspired by the human eye, Harvard researchers John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed an adaptive metalens, which is essentially a flat, Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Flexible, self-healing and recyclable ‘electronic’ skin

© naftemporiki.gr Electronic skin (also known as e-skin) is a thin, transparent material that can mimic the function and mechanical properties of human skin. Quite different types of e-skin are developed in laboratories … Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have developed a new kind of flexible, Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

The autonomous drones that will fly at 30 km/h are coming

© Sofokleousin.gr The autonomous drones that will fly at 30 km/h are coming Engineers, at US MIT University’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) Lab, have developed a system that allows drones, although traveling at a speed of at least 30 km/h, to avoid the obstacles they encounter. Many companies, Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

The big change that Chrome has implemented since 15/2

© www.cnn.gr Tech Chrome, Google’s popular web surfing program, will start blocking selectively on-line web ads, which systematically disturb users or hinder their smooth surfing. The new feature will automatically put a brake on embarrassing web ads, such as those that suddenly play automatically videos with loud sound. Even Google’s Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Google updates email: What AMP technology brings

© naftemporiki.gr Google Updates Email: What AMP technology brings Significant renewal is the use of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology for Google’s Gmail and email sites generally, which the company announced on Tuesday. As mentioned in the Gmail official blog post by Aakas Sachney, Gmail’s product manager, this open-source framework Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

The time of “smart networks” is coming

© www.cnn.gr Tech Developments in technology have changed a lot over the past 30 years, both in social and economic terms. However, developments over the next 20-30 years will be even greater, and this means that businesses and more generally all kinds of organizations are called upon to start from Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Google has introduced the Bulletin news service

©Provided by: pestaola.gr Google Bulletin is a tool for creating news at a very local level, which has just been launched. Google Bulletin has begun to be available in two markets, in Oakland, California, and Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Through the login page in the service, one can upload small local Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

The basic Office applications coming to Microsoft Store

© Provided by: pestaola.gr Microsoft Office 365 subscribers can now access basic Office applications in the Microsoft Store. Now, in Microsoft Store, you can find Word 2016, Excel 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Access 2016, Outlook 2016, and Publisher 2016 as part of the Centennial or Desktop Bridge initiative. Those who have Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Facebook engineer invented a new time unit

© Sofokleousin.gr Facebook engineer invented a new time unit A Facebook engineer invented a new time unit, named “flick”, equivalent to 1 / 705,600,000 of a second, and is the next-in-duration unit of time after the nanosecond (billionth of a second). “Flick” (from the words frame-tick) was designed to help developers Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Intel integrates Radeon graphics into its processors

© Provided by: pestaola.gr The new Intel Core processors work with a new generation graphics graphics AMD Radeon RX Vega M. According to what was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the 8th generation Intel Core will have a built-in 4 GB second-generation graphics card. This configuration Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Significant changes coming to Facebook

© Provided by: capital.gr Facebook plans to bring significant changes in the way the news feed is filtered by its complex algorithms, with emphasis on private posts from friends and family of users, and degrading the public posts by business and media information. The changes that will take place over Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

ARMAR-6: Robot-equipment maintenance assistant

©naftemporiki.gr ARMAR-6 was developed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and specifically by Tamif Asphour and his team at the H²T workshop A prototype robot -designed to act as the basic platform for testing and developing new technologies related to the maintenance and repair of equipment in Ocado Technology’s Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Microsoft is preparing encrypted Skype calls

©Provided by: capital.gr Microsoft is working with Signal Encryption app company to develop a new encrypted Skype feature called Private Conversations. The new feature is already available for trial use at Skype Insiders. Application users will have encrypted end-to-end audio calls as well, as text messaging and the ability to Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Year of Artificial Intelligence is 2018

©naftemporiki.gr Year of Artificial Intelligence is ’18 Welcome to 2018, the year of Artificial Intelligence. In this way, Ralph Haupter, president of Microsoft Asia, wished to everyone in the technology area for the coming of the new year. According to Haupter, 70 years after 1950, when computer pioneer Alan Turing Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …