Sesame Workshop and IBM Watson work to advance early childhood education

 Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization that produces Sesame Street, and IBM today announced a collaboration to use IBM Watson’s cognitive computing technology and Sesame’s early childhood expertise to help advance preschool education around the world.

As part of a three-year agreement, Sesame Workshop and IBM will collaborate to develop educational platforms and products that will be designed to adapt to the learning preferences and aptitude levels of individual preschoolers. Research shows that a significant extent of brain development occurs in the first five years of a child’s life, making this window critical for learning and development.

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Dyson launches new product category with Supersonic Hair Dryer

Dyson is bringing its technology and innovation to the world of beauty. After more than four years of intensive research and development and over $100 million spent, James Dyson unveiled Dyson’s first hair dryer in Tokyo today. The Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is engineered for balance in the hand, uses a fast-yet-focused airflow and intelligently controls temperature to help protect hair from extreme heat damage.

Conventional hair dryers can be bulky and difficult to manoeuvre. Emitting air at high temperatures, they can cause damage to hair. Where the grill and filter are located on conventional dryers, hair is often at risk of being pulled into the machine.

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Tangerine launches new iOS mobile app decked with security features

Tangerine is boasting its new Mobile Banking App comes with some first-to-market innovations meant to increase the security and ease of use of their iOS app. The new features include EyeVerify, VocalPassword, and In-App Secure Chat. EyeVerify introduces eye scanning technology into the app. It makes use of Eyeprint ID technology for quicker client identification. VocalPassword, developed by Nuance, makes use of voice authentication technology and requires you to just say a simple phrase to get access into your account. The app also introduces Secure Chat for mobile, saying they’re the first to bring fully-authenticated chat using Genesys technology and made in partnership with IBM. It lets you use the app to do things like change addresses or make a lump sum payment on their mortgage. An Android version of the app is said to arrive in the coming months.

Privates app lets you take back a text before your recipient opens it, prevent screenshots

Ever given into a drunken text or sent one off in a fit of rage that you’ll later regret? Well, a new app hopes to help you out with that unfortunate message. Privates can help you recall a text or picture message before your recipient opens it. You just need to tap on the Recall button to get the message back. This’ll delete the message from Privates server. If your recipient is glued to their phone, you’ll have to act fast.

The app boasts of having screenshot prevention, meaning your recipient can’t take screenshots and send it to others. Of course, physically passing around the phone is a different story. Privates has three levels of security: Mild, Wild, and Insane—which will delete unread messages after either 24, 12, or three hours, respectively. There’s also a Reactions feature that will show you the facial expression of your recipient when they see the message. It’s initially available for iOS but will be coming to Android and Windows soon.

Source: The Telegraph