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The finale of StartUps Silicon Valley aired last night. Interesting little show, but much too much drama, especially surrounding one particular person on the show, that will remain unnamed here.

Here’s an article that talks about the show’s premiere. I’m pretty sure this show will be on rotation on Bravo if you want to see it, even though this season has ended.

If they do another season, I’d like to see a new set of folks in the show that they follow around. This season was too much “get into a situation where one person blows everything up”.

by ·Comments Off on Speech Recognition/Translation Breakthrough

This is pretty amazing. From Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto. Deep Neural Network technology is used to create software that allows you to speak in your own voice, have it translated, and then spoken in that new language in your own voice!

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The article “How to Become an App Store Millionaire: Make a Hit App, and Don’t Make Anything Else” – like Steve Martin’s advice of how to become a millionaire and not pay taxes “First, get a million dollars”. Both are easier said than done.

Link – via All Things D.

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So there’s a rumor going around this morning that the iPad HD will have haptic feedback. That means you’ll be able to feel objects on the screen. Sandpaper would feel like sandpaper, for example. Very, very cool if true.

And all this time we had the hint (from the invitation picture, above) all this time.

We’ll see in a few hours!

Update: Nope! No Haptic feedback.

by ·Comments Off on IPad HD?

Well, the big announcement is tomorrow, and everyone expects it’ll be the the iPad 3. From the rumors, it might even be called the iPad HD.

So a couple of questions…

How are developers going to deal with the confusion of all the apps for the iPad that have the tag HD?

How are iPad graphics going to look on a much higher resolution screen?

How much memory is it going to have and how much more graphics processing power is it going to require?