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The Tiny Radar Chip Revolutionizing Gesture               Recognition: Project Soli Project Soli made a big splash at Google I/O 2016 conference, even more so than its initial unveiling at Google I/O the year before. Soli is being developed by Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects group, or Google ATAP, which tends to focus on mobile hardware technology. The project founder, Ivan Poupyrev,in his presentation of Soli's capabilities, machine learning engineer Nick Gillian showed off  Soli’s capabilities in the context of smart watch control. With Soli embedded in a smart watch form factor, he showed how tiny gestures and distance between hand and smart watch can allow touchless interface to check texts and the weather. They also demonstrated using the same gesture control tech in a speaker form factor that used the same algorithms as the smart watch.   The Soli Sensor Soli’s radar sensor is a marvel in many respects. For on...

Social live streaming has got lot bigger in the last few months. It is mostly used to make media content viral or post some breaking news around the world, live video tools offer companies an opportunity to reach out to their audience in real-time. So, what exactly is ‘streaming’? Streaming is a method of serving, or delivering, video and audio content over the Internet. As broadband availability has increased streaming has become a hugely popular way to publish high-quality live and on-demand video. The basic prerequisites for live video streaming are: a form of source media (e.g. a video camera, an audio interface).An encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. Some of the most popular live video services are : Facebook   Live, YouTube Live and Twitter's Periscope.With technology giants Facebook,   Twitter   and Google's   YouTube   in the fray, the competitio...