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HOME & GARDEN 
May 26, 2017 JOHNSONS HOME & GARDEN EARNS NATIONAL RECOGNITION AS TOP HOME IMPROVEMENT STORE IN WASHINGTON
Another successful year of serving the community has put Johnsons Home & Garden in exclusive company within the independent home improvement industry. Hardware + Building Supply Dealer (H+BSD), a national publication covering the hardware industry, named Johnsons Home & Garden its 2017 Hardware All Star for the state of Washington. Johnsons Home & Garden, located […]
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ELECTRONICS 
January 5, 2017 Synaptics Launches Biometric Fusion Engine for Mobiles, Combining Fingerprint and Facial Recognition
HIGHLIGHTS New biometric sensor levers both fingerprint and facial recognitions New fusion engine will integrate into Natural ID fingerprint sensors It can be used on smartphones, tablets, and PCs Biometric authentications methods like fingerprint scanners have slowly made it to majority of smartphones adding at least basic level of security for users. However, attackers have […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 29, 2016 Facebook Open Sources Its Object Recognition Machine Vision Software
Facebook has decided to make its set of vision software tools, used for object recognition in images, available to everyone by open sourcing the project. The set of tools, DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet, were developed by the Facebook AI Research team and essentially work towards a process called segmentation to recognise objects by their shapes […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 19, 2016 Intel SoCs Get Built-in Speech Recognition; May Help Apple Bring Siri to OS X
Intel SoCs will soon have native support for speech recognition features. This capability comes as the chipmaker partners with Sensory, a Silicon Valley-based company focused on machine learning techniques. The announcement further intensifies the speculation about Apple bringing Siri to its OS Xdesktop operating system. Dubbed TrulyHandsfree, the always-on, always-listening voice triggering component and low-power […]
