Episode 147 – Selfies for Safety

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It’s all about autos, safety, bricks, and music generated by AI. We muse whose music would like to hear more of if computers could write the songs, how about some new Punk!?! We review Tesla’s new update on autopilot mode. Are you comfortable with over the air updates for your car? Have you scanned your favorite book yet? What’s your favorite Nintendo game? Would you fly your Legos? All this and more on this week’s episode of Games At Work dot Biz!

Show Links:
Uber is using selfies for security
AI Writes a new Beatles song
Keep your hands on the wheel
You can scan a book by its cover
Put a PI in your Nintendo Cartridge
Lego Drones!

Games we are Playing:
Dungeon boss continues
Super Phantom Cat – Android
Super Phantom Cat – iOS

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Episode 146 – Archive Edition

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The Michael’s record a brand new episode after the last attempt had major sound and recording issues (and no, Michael R. didn’t forget to hit record). We have fun going back over a few stories that are a week or so old, but are still more relevant than not. We talk about autonomous cars and traffic jams, hash jackers, Apple’s cleaning of the app store, BB-8 Bands, and cool trips Drone courses.

Show Links:
Autonomous cars completely eliminate traffic jams
Hashtags are worthless
Apple Cleans House!
Sphero’s BB-8 Band
Real-Life Tron course for you Drone
Obligatory iOS10 reference

Games we are playing:
Groove Coaster
Dungeon Boss
Infinity Gene

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Episode 145 – Can you hear me now?

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This week we look at how voice technology is improving and enabling new kinds of interactions at work and within games. We look at how microphone technology is impacting the adoption of smaller voice assistants. We explore the accuracy of text transcription verses typing. We think through our own use of voice technology and digital assistants. And we add new features to our website, text-based, thanks to Twitter’s new DM button.

We also change our whatcha playing segment to look at what are we exploring. And we end the show with a challenge to our listeners. We’d love to hear your experiences based on this challenge.

Show Links:
The Advancement of Voice Technology and Microphones
Chirp Episode
Stanford speech recognition study
IBM ViaVoice Transcription demo 2001
Twitter’s new message button
Duke Nukem – again?

Things we are into:
Michael M. – Newton hunting
IBM’s Pen based ThinkPad
Michael R: Mr. Robot – Apple and Mr. Robot – Android

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Episode 144 – Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot

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The Michaels are back this week looking at the related of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. We also look at two tie in games, one for the 2016 Olympic Games and one for the TV Show Mr. Robot. There’s a lot of news out this week from Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF), MIT’s Interactive Dynamic Video, and the never ending halo affect of Pokémon Go!

Show Links:
Nintendo 3DS sales up 80% Y/Y on Pokémon Go success
Nintendo Classic Mini
Atari Flashback
McDonals’ step counter for kids in Happy Meal – Sorta
Project Alloy
Intel to allow ARM to use 10nm Fab
Interactive Dynamic Video – Thank you Ian Hughes
No Man’s Sky (2013 view)
Desert Bus

Games we are Playing
Michael M: FIE Swordplay
Michael R: Mr. Robot – Apple and Mr. Robot – Android

Bonus Link:
Q*bert

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