YouTube Auto-Captions

Remember that amazing project Google was developing that would allow the automatic creation of captions on YouTube via voice recognition?

Well, this auto-caption service is now available to all english spoken videos.



I just hope we don't have to wailt long for other languages to be included.
(And just imagine all the "data" this will give them, in order to provide an instant voice translation service in the future! :)

Cisco Unveils a 322Tbps Router for a Faster Internet

It's not everyday someone makes an announcement "that will change the internet forever", but I guess Cisco has delivered with their new CRS-3 router.

Not for the home user, these routers are required for managing the internet dataflow across the world. And with people getting ever faster internet connections at home (100Mbits and even 1Gbit will become increasingly normal in the next years) this CRS-3 offer three times the performance of the previous models and is capable of routing at speeds of up to 322Tbps!

To give you a better idea this speed would allow you to:

• donwload the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in just a second
• deliver 1Gbit to every household in San Francisco
• enable every man, woman, and child in China to make a video call - at the same time!
• deliver all movies ever made in just 4 minutes

That's what I call speed!

Diagrams and SVG Add-ons for Firefox

As you're probabaly aware, one of Firefox's greatest strengths is its infinite ability to learn new tricks via extensions and add-ons. Today, I present you three Firefox add-ons that will simplify your drawing and animation tasks.

Ever had the need to draw some diagrams? You should give this Pencil a try.

If you're more into fast SVG editing, then maybe svg-edit will suit your needs better.

And if static images don't cut ir, how about using Animat to create some animated PNGs in the APNG format?

Nvidia Optimus Power Demo

If you recall Nvidia Optimus you'll know this is a system that allows your computer to dynamically switch between graphic cards depending on process at hand.

This time, I bring you quite a clarifying video that shows that the external - more powerful - graphic chip is completely powered off when not needed (not just in a suspended standby state.)

How can we be sure? Well... how about actually removing and re-attaching the graphic card while the rest of the system is still powered on, is that enough for you? :)

HTML 5 - a Video Introduction

Still haven't had the time to get onboard the new HTML5 bandwagon? Worry not; here's a nice intro video that will show you some of its new (and amazing) features, with nice examples to get you started:

• Web vector graphics with the Canvas tag and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• The Geolocation API
• HTML 5 Video
• The HTML 5 Database and Application Cache
• Web workers

Introduction to HTML 5 from Brad Neuberg on Vimeo.

Written Gesture Search in Android

Tired of looking down to your Android screen whenever you want to find something? Too noisy to use the voice search?
How about using written gestures to search in your Android device?

Though it is still an experimental Google Labs feature, I hope they'll soon make it standard for everyone.

Image Reconstruction

Looks like those incredible image enhancements we see on TV are becoming increasingly real.
What if someone told you it was possible to reconstruct an image from a noisy or incomplete source?
No matter how impossible it sounded, someone applied some advanced math to it and... the results were amazing.

Be filling the empty spaces using the known pixel as reference, they were able to get crystal clear images out of incomplete MRI scans. And the same applies to most other kinds of images and even sounds!

And this is not all: how about compressing an image by deliberately throwing away the needless pixels that can be rebuilt using this algorithm? As you can imagine, the possibilities are endless!