Automatic captioning system on YouTube now identifies sound effects

While limited, YouTube is venturing out of just automatically captioning what’s being spoken. Google’s technology is now able to caption three specific sounds: [LAUGHTER], [APPLAUSE], and [MUSIC]. YouTube concentrated on these three first because these are exactly the sounds most video producers manually caption in their clips. These three are considered to be “relatively unambiguous” as compared to the sounds lie [RING], which as Google engineer Sourish Chauduri points out, can refer to the ringing of a bell, alarm, or phone. If you’re curious about how the company managed to do so with its tech. You can read more about it in detail in this link. You can see it in action in the video embedded above. Just make sure to click the CC button to see the sound effect captioning system at work.

Samsung and SickKids hope to bring a piece of home in new interactive Space

The Samsung Space is an interactive digital environment that will provide a variety of immersive experiences through the Samsung connected ecosystem, bringing visitors closer to what matters to them. (CNW Group/Samsung Electronics Canada)

There is no place like home for children. But when your child is suffering from an illness, you tend to spend a lot of time in the hospital. Samsung Electronics Canada and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) hopes to ease things somehow with a new interactive digital environment right in the hospital. Located on the 9^th floor of SickKids, the Samsung Space offers the children and their families things like a 75-inch SUHD TV for movie nights, a number of GearVR virtual reality headsets, Gear360 cameras, Galaxy Tab E devices, Galaxy View devices, and a Synced Interactive Table to let visitors play with their favourite apps and games.

Samsung Space will be open six days a week for in-patients and their loved ones to help provide a sense of normalcy for them. It is part of Samsung’s global philanthropic “Hope for Children” program as well as the company’s ongoing, multi-year partnership with SickKids.

Michael Kors makes a big splash at Baselworld with Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches

Continuing their push into the fashionable smartwatch market, Fossil's Michael Kors brand recently unveiled a host of new products aunder the MICHAEL KORS ACCESS, line of smartwatches and activity trackers.  

Revealed at Baselworld, a premier event for watchmakers and horologists, were the Sofie (ladies) and Grayson (mens) line of smartwatches. Like all MICHAEL KORS ACCESS wearables, the Sofie and the Grayson are compatible with both Android and iOS phones thanks to cutting edge technology made possible through a partnership with Google and the Android Wear 2.0 smartwatch platform. They feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon™ Wear 2100 system-on-a-chip.  

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UAG's Plasma Series cases are available for LG G6

Urban Armor Gear (UAG) the leading manufacturer of rugged, lightweight, drop-tested mobile accessories, launched its new Plasma Series case for the LG G6.

UAG is known for making tough and functional protective cases for smartphones, tablets and notebooks.

Built with UAG’s patented composite design, the case delivers 360-degrees of solid protection for the LG G6’s sizable, 5.7-inch screen and body, fusing a hard outer shell with a soft, impact resistant core. The case includes oversized tactile buttons, generous ports and a low-profile design that easily slips in and out of the pocket. The unique shape of UAG’s LG G6 case provides structural rigidity and meets military drop-test standards.

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