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Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice

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Microsoft has posted a video with a complementary explanation of language translation that goes far past what we thought was currently possible.  The speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are automatically transcribed as he speaks. He then demonstrates having those words translated directly into Mandarin.

 

 

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Online viewers abandon video if it doesn’t play in 2 seconds: Study

Faster internet connections have made viewers more impatient.

Revenues are declining for the traditional forms of online advertising.  Emerging as a bright spot for many media companies is the video.  It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.

 

 

 

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Top 5 reasons Denver is a great place for startups

Denver, CO the Mile High City

It has always been undisputed that Silicon Valley has been the start-up capital of the world because it is overflowing with investors, mentors, and start-ups in every stage of development.  But an affordable and laid-back alternative to Silicon Valley, the Mile-High City is building a vibrant start-up community.

 

 

 

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The rising consumer markets in Africa

Young, urban African consumer generation on the rise.

There is tremendous potential in Africa and most investors and businesses know this by now.  Africa is the world’s second fastest growing region, second to Asia.  And it may come as a surprise to most that Africa’s single-largest business opportunity is the rising consumer market.

 

 

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Are men starting to see marriage differently and what is it doing to America’s workforce?

We are seeing more and more where the mom has the anchor job in the family and the dad either doesn’t work or works in a flexible job.

After Gail McGovern’s daughter Annie was born, she and her husband established what came to be known as the “kitchen calendar rule.”  McGovern worked for AT&T overseeing 10,000 employees; her husband ran a large unit of Hewlett-Packard. They both needed to travel regularly for work, but one of them also needed to be home for Annie.

 

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Aakash 2 – The $20 tablet that could transform computing as we know it

Suneet Tuli with the Aakash 2 tablet.

The 44-year-old CEO of UK/Canadian/Indian startup Datawind, Suneet Tuli, is having a taxing day.  He says he is “underwater”  as he struggles to find a cell signal outside a restaurant in Mumbai. On Sunday Nov. 11, the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will unveil the seven-inch Aakash 2 tablet computer Tuli’s company is selling to the government for distribution to 100,000 university students and professors. (If things go well, the government plans to order as many as 5.86 million.) In the meantime, Tuli is deluged with calls from reporters, and every day his company receives thousands of new orders for the commercial version of the Aakash 2. Already, he’s facing a backlog of four million unfulfilled pre-orders.

 

 

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51 percent of smartphone users in U.S. consult their devices for medical information

Mobile health becoming more popular among smartphone owners.

Mobile health is starting to become popular in the U.S..  In 2010, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported that just 17 percent of cell phone owners used their devices to look up health information. But the organization said that figure has climbed to 31 percent in a new study released last week.

 

 

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Volkswagen’s futuristic flying car concept

Volkswagen’s flying car

Seeing a flying cars in a sci-fi movie is a common site. The flying car has won hearts of many science fiction fanatics. Be it the glass bubble from “The Jetsons” or the cab from “The Fifth Element,” all these vehicles have mesmerized audiences for a long now. (Video)

 

 

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Singapore opens world’s first commercial vertical farm

Transplanting some leafy green seedlings at the grand opening of Singapore’s first commercial vertical farm.

Singapore is taking local farming to the next level by opening of its first commercial vertical farm.

Vertical farming is like skyscrapers with vegetables climbing along the windows or like a library-sized greenhouse with racks of cascading vegetables instead of books.

 

 

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Entering the Legal Marijuana Era – Finding the Pitfalls and Profits in the Years Ahead

Futurist Thomas Frey: It may sound silly to walk into a bar and order up a beer with a weed chaser or to open a late night box of cereal called “Weedies” to help you sleep, but that is exactly the era we’re entering.

 

 

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