Jun 1st 2016
Tech News Today 1525
Help Me DMCA, You're My Only Hope
AI Makes Music and Movies
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Guests:
Russell Holly
Tonight we talk to Ron Richards from All About Android and Russell Holly from the new site VRHeads. We discuss Microsoft's new strategic partnership with Xiaomi, built on 1500 transferred patents. Then we cover OnePlus and the controversy of selling hardware with an invite system. We also cover Facebook AI, Google AI, and AI that recreated the film Blade Runner and then gotten taken down by the DMCA.
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Links
- Microsoft sells patents to Xiaomi, builds 'long-term partnership'
- Microsoft and Xiaomi expand partnership to bring productivity services to millions of devices and customers
- OnePlus Grows Up and Goes Invite-Free For Its Next Phone
- Let’s talk about invites - forums.oneplus.net
- Introducing DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
- So, let’s talk about this song a Google Brain machine composed
- Google’s trippy drawing robot makes amazing art of your face
- Welcome to VRHeads! The conversation about Virtual Reality starts now!
- Microsoft opens up its Windows Holographic platform to VR — including the HTC Vive
- AMD's Radeon RX 480 is a VR-ready video card that costs $199
- A guy trained a machine to "watch" Blade Runner. Then things got seriously sci-fi.