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Viral TikTok videos from Singaporean architect bring feng shui to new audience
South China Morning Post, Published on 16/07/2024
» SINGAPORE - In 2020, when the world was in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cliff Tan entered a quarantine hotel in his native Singapore. At the time, the architect had 50 followers on TikTok.
AI-aided hope on the horizon
Life, James Hein, Published on 13/02/2019
» Despite some of my criticisms in the past there are some excellent examples of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. I've mentioned some of these from the medical world in earlier articles but a new one caught my eye this week, figuring out in which hotel a picture was taken. No, not to help people remember where holiday snaps were taken but to track down human trafficking where pics of women are taken to sell them for sex. The three groups behind this identification technology are from George Washington University, Temple University and Adobe, all in the US. Like many AI systems a large amount of source data is used and to help with this more than a million images have been collected from 50,000 hotels worldwide. Using all the room elements in backgrounds a neural network is being trained to identify a hotel chain and then a location.
Web Summit is windfall for Portugal's economy
AFP, Published on 07/11/2016
» LISBON - The bars on the banks of Lisbon's Tagus river are gearing up for a bonanza as tens of thousands of people descend on the city for Europe's largest tech event.
Psychology behind the click
Life, Pimchanok Phungbun Na Ayudhya, Published on 18/05/2016
» I was booking a hotel room for my upcoming trip to Tokyo. I typed in the destination, selected check-in and check-out dates and clicked search. A list of hotels came up so I checked filters by price and preferred area. This one place looked nice, got great reviews, was in budget and fitted my needs. I made my booking and entered my credit card number. The whole transaction took less than five minutes and I'm already counting down to my upcoming getaway.
Google to produce Project Tango 3D phone with Lenovo
AFP, Published on 08/01/2016
» LAS VEGAS - Google and Lenovo said they would team up to produce the first smartphone using three-dimensional mapping developed for the US tech giant's "Project Tango."
Airbnb brings home cash in fresh funding round
AFP, Published on 21/11/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Home-sharing startup Airbnb raised more than $100 million in a new funding round that kept its value at about $25.5 billion, sources with knowledge of the matter said Friday.
Expedia unveils $3.9 bn deal for HomeAway
AFP, Published on 05/11/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - US online travel booking giant Expedia said Wednesday it agreed to acquire the vacation marketplace HomeAway for $3.9 billion.
Airbnb apologizes for San Francisco tax ads
AFP, Published on 23/10/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Airbnb apologized Thursday for street ads here with sassy suggestions as to what San Francisco should do with hotel tax money collected from the home-sharing platform.
Airbnb signs up more companies for business travel
AFP, Published on 22/08/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Airbnb said Friday more than 1,000 companies have joined its new program allowing business travelers to use the peer-to-peer-lodging service.
Onemos MOS1
Life, AKIN, Published on 05/08/2015
» The Onemos MOS1 is made with double 2.5D curved glass and Corning Gorilla Glass 3, with a 1.9mm ultra-narrow gold frame and 6.6mm ultra-thin metal intermediate frame. It is configured with a 5.5-inch, 1080P GFF AHVA genuine colour screen. A Qualcomm 64bit true 8-core high-performance, low-consumption processor ensures high speed and smooth operation. The device is equipped with 32GB ultra-high capacity storage, 2GB RAM and works with both TD-LTE and FDD-LTE double 4G systems. The phone will be available in three colours: champagne gold, moonlight silver and metal grey.