Friday
Mar242017

Fredericton Police Force to pilot axon body cameras

The pilot is designed to improve how the agency captures, stores and manages their digital evidence in the field.

Today, Axon Public Safety Canada Inc., a subsidiary of TASER International, Inc. announced that the Fredericton Police Force will pilot Axon Body 2 body cameras and digital evidence management solution, Evidence.com starting this month.

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Friday
Mar242017

Samsung's premium Galaxy Tab S3 now available in Canada for $799

Samsung's Premium Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab S3 is now available in Canada.

“The Galaxy Tab S3 solidifies our commitment to bringing premium devices that deliver cutting-edge technology to the Canadian market” said Paul Brannen, COO and Executive Vice President, Samsung Electronics Canada. “We are proud to be offering a tablet that is designed for how Canadians consume media entertainment today.”

Fusing glass and metal together for a sleek premium design, the Galaxy Tab S3 is the first Samsung tablet to feature quad speakers tuned by AKG by HARMAN and a Super AMOLED display with HDR video compatibility, offering a cinema-like experience from your personal tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is available in black and silver starting today, at all Samsung Experience Stores and at major retailers across Canada. The device will be $799.99 CDN (MSRP).

Friday
Mar242017

Facebook Messenger app gets mentions and reactions

You’re familiar with reactions on Facebook’s main app, right? Well, that feature is making its way to Messenger in hopes of making it easier to communicate in group messages within the app. Aside from that, the social network is also introducing an @ mentions system, too. When it comes to reactions you get all the ones you see on Facebook itself plus a new thumbs down option. This gives you one more option to react using emojis within Messenger. Who says you need words these days?

Now, if you’re in a big group chat and want to call out a specific person, you can just type in the @symbol to notify them to join the conversation. The person you mention will get a notification to join said conversation. This message will be highlighted in blue to help catch them easily. These new features are said to be coming to Messenger real soon.

Source: Android Central + Wired

Friday
Mar242017

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.