A team of researchers is developing a system that will ultimately be capable of automatically describing a series of images based on the feelings such pictures might evoke. “Captioning is about taking concrete objects and putting them together in a literal description,” Margaret Mitchell, a Microsoft researcher who is leading the research project, told PhysOrg. “What I’ve been calling visual storytelling is about inferring conceptual and abstract ideas from those concrete objects. A picture is worth 1,000 words. It’s not just worth three tags.”
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New Samsung HDR LED TVs go VIDITY
Samsung’s new KU6300 and KU6500 lineup of HDR LED TVs boast full support for VIDITY™, a secure delivery service that facilitates the purchase, delivery and storage of premium content across a wide range of devices.
Rambus joins the RISC-V Foundation
Rambus has joined the RISC-V Foundation as a founding member. The organization is dedicated to managing and promoting the adoption of the RISC-V hardware architecture standard throughout the semiconductor market. With this announcement, Rambus joins a coalition comprising dozens of major industry players, including Google, Oracle, Western Digital and BAE Systems.
Shifting gears for the IoT
Writing for Semiconductor Engineering, Ann Steffora Mutschler observes that a shift is currently underway in the automotive industry as more connected vehicles hit the road each year.“[Connectivity adds] many of the features that consumers now expect in mobile devices as well as some new ones that ultimately will lead to autonomous vehicles,” she explained.
Analysts bullish on IoT security
ABI Research analysts say the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next big market for cyber security. “While it remains a fragmented market that has yet to consolidate, the ecosystem is expanding with vendors finding their way into three groups,” the researchers wrote in a recent blog post.
Rambus rolls out new version of DPA Workstation analysis platform
Rambus’ Cryptography Research division has rolled out version 8 of its DPA Workstation (DPAWS) analysis platform. The latest iteration of DPAWS features an extensive upgrade to the workstation software and user interface (UI) for enhanced system performance and usability in ASIC and FPGA side-channel vulnerability testing.
