| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini Rumored For July Release
| | | The Samsung Galaxy S5 is the South Korean tech company's flagship phone at the moment. It sports some pretty high-end hardware which also means that it has an expensive price tag to match. Now if you don't really need all that fancy hardware and just want a smartphone, you might be interested to learn that the Samsung Galaxy S5 mini has been rumored for a possible release in July. (Ubergizmo)
Why This Is Important: Should the rumors be accurate, you can expect critics to again roll their eyes at Samsung's "lack of innovation" as it continues its roadmap of incremental improvements followed by scaled-down upgrades.
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| | #2 | Siri Will Soon Understand You A Whole Lot Better
| | | It all started at a small academic get-together in Whistler, British Columbia. The topic was speech recognition, and whether a new and unproven approach to machine intelligence—something called deep learning—could help computers more effectively identify the spoken word. Microsoft funded the mini-conference, held just before Christmas 2009, and two of its researchers invited the world's preeminent deep learning expert, the University of Toronto's Geoff Hinton, to give a speech.
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Why This Is Important: Apple, which brought speech recognition to the mainstream with Siri, is expected to make improvements that will elevate its capabilities to being more than just a party trick.
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| | #3 | Google Strikes Back At The Big Screen With Android TV
| | | Google announced its plan to take on the billions of TV viewers in the world with a groundbreaking product that would blur the lines between internet and broadcast -- four years ago. Executives from Dish Network, Best Buy, Sony, Logitech, Sony and Intel joined the stage with Google's then-CEO Eric Schmidt to herald the coming of a new era -- which never came. Several generations of Google TV devices failed to catch on and it was eventually squeezed out by set-top boxes, game consoles and other "smart TV" platforms. (Engadget)
Why This Is Important: Despite the gamut of attempts in living room media, no single company has been able to dominate consumers' attention. The new Android TV effort intends to change that by acting as a collaboration with existing devices, rather than a replacement.
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| | | Blog Post of The Day | Why My Next Phone Will Be The Next iPhone
By James Kendrick
When it comes to gadget purchases I can be an impulsive guy. I see one that catches my eye and I am prone to buy it without hesitation. That's a big reason why I have too many of them. Given my history, it's telling that I still haven't acted on an impulse I had a while back to ditch my Android phone and go Windows Phone. Phones running Microsoft's OS are different from anything out there and my feeling was that it would be a refreshing change over Android. More » |
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