TechLife

Bleeding edge: the best of emerging tech

WE WERE EXCITED to see that the Medal Of Honor franchise expanded in September to include a game that was designed specifically for the VR platform – allowing you to take cover behind objects, pull out grenade pins with your teeth and use your hands to solve a broad range of immersive minigames.

AR had a couple of big announcements this month, with the launch of a pair of Amazon audio AR glasses and the announcement of Facebook’s goal to build full-body avatars in 3D real-world maps accessed by a pair of lightweight glasses. Meanwhile, AI tackles privacy policies, radiology, fellatio, drone cinematography and job applications, this month, which is a more diverse skill set than we expected.

AI outperform radiologists at image-based diagnoses

LITERATURE REVIEW CONFIRMS COMPUTERS OUTPERFORM HUMANS AT

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from TechLife

TechLife3 min read
Make The Most Of The Harmonisation Filter
If you want to make a composite from two or more images, there are two stages to carry out. First, there’s the task of cutting out and piecing the images together. Second, there’s the challenge of making the images look like they belong together. The
TechLife4 min readSecurity
Locking The Gate
As noted over in this month’s Privacy and Security column, routers are currently one of the primary vectors of attack against home users. A hacker who takes control of your router has the capacity to monitor and modify all unencrypted data going into
TechLife15 min read
Best Free Software For Vital PC Tasks
We all know the kind of ‘boring but useful’ tasks we should carry out regularly on our computers: backing up, syncing, eradicating junk and so on. But there are lots of things in life we should do, but don’t. One of the reasons we put off such PC tas

Related Books & Audiobooks