Lucky Voice

Lucky Voice Karaoke Kit

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Nothing to plug in, nothing to install, just press play and sing along. You can use it on your laptop, play it from your tablet, or sing from your phone.

One account for your PC, Mac, iPad & iPhone.

Remote control

Full screen in HD

Includes thousands of songs, various different playlists and genres including; Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Musicals and many more. Post and share online via social media

Also Lucky Voice have their own ‘ultimate private karaoke experiences’ where you can hire a room around Great Britain including; London, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Brighton and even Dubai.

 

“Possibly the most fun you’ll ever have at home”
“The best karaoke system in the world”

 

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Google Turns Raspberry Pi Smart!

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Raspberry Pi is about to get really smart, they have teamed up with Google to bring voice integration to their product, with a very smart combination of hardware and software. So smart in fact this little DIY kit brings all the fancy powers that the Google Home has to the Raspberry Pi 3.

However…..the pack contains a Voice HAT (Hardware Accessory on Top, a HAT is any piece of physical hardware that is added to the Pi motherboard) board with a speaker and a microphone, giving Pi owners everything they need to add-in voice integration.

The only way to get the HAT board is to buy the latest issue of the company’s official magazine The MagPi, where it comes as a freebie.

WHAT IS A RASPBERRY PI?

A Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer originally designed for education, inspired by the 1981 BBC Micro. … The Raspberry Pi is slower than a modern laptop or desktop but is still a complete Linux computer and can provide all the expected abilities that implies, at a low-power consumption level. https://opensource.com/resources/what-raspberry-pi

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Zap Zap VR!

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VR Researchers have found a use for electric shocks – to make you feel walls that don’t exist.

Researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany have been hard at work finding ways to make you feel like you have bumped into a wall in the virtual world and make you feel it in the real world by giving you a bit of good old electrical muscle stimulation – a shock of electricity basically.

You wear the usual headset/tracking gloves, but you have an additional muscle stimulator and computer in a back back, then electrodes attached to your arm activate muscles causing them to twitch and move by themselves if they hit a wall in the VR world.

As well as highlighting when you have ‘bumped into something’ it can also eventually be used to stimulate the feeling of lifting something. By shocking opposition muscle groups in a users arms it makes them feel resistance, simulating gravity. More electrical simulation, the heavier an object feels.

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Elon Musks Underground Road

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Elon Musk hates LA traffic so much he has proposed an underground road……stating that he wants it to be the future of city driving.

How would it work we hear you ask! Well by a series of multi-layered underground tunnels, beneath a city, travelling along a scalextric like platform.

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Robot Volleyball???

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Japan have created a team of robot volleyball players to help their national women’s volleyball team to improve their game, by creating a team of opponents that mimic the actions of blockers. (Players who jump close to the net with their arms above their heads and stretched out wide) They can even programme them with play similar to their opponents!

The three pairs of robotic arms move left and right along a track at a speed slightly faster than that of a human player and whilst impressive the robots can only move along a pre-determined line and don’t react according to what is happening in front of them. However developers are working to make this a reality by incorporating motion sensors into the robots.

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UBER CEO TOLD OFF!

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UBER has been breaking a lot of Apple’s rules for the app store. Uber Founder Travis Kalanick had fingerprinting code on their phones – which basically kept information on an iPhone AFTER it had been wiped clean. Apple prides itself on privacy and the fact that when a phone is wiped clean – they mean CLEAN.

Uber used geofencing to prevent Apple from noticing. (Basically programming their app to not display the offending code on any phones accessing the app in the region around Apple HQ)

Tim Cook told Uber to remove the code or face being banned from the app store. Uber fought back and said that the pracitce prevented criminals from installing the app on stolen phones, using stolen credit cards to book journeys and then repeat the process after wiping the phone.

Tim Cook ushered Kalanick into his office for a meeting. NY Times reported:

When Mr. Kalanick arrived at the mid-afternoon meeting sporting his favourite pair of bright red sneakers and hot-pink socks, Mr. Cook was prepared.

“So, I’ve heard you’ve been breaking some of our rules,” Mr. Cook said in his calm, Southern tone. Stop the trickery, Mr. Cook then demanded, or Uber’s app would be kicked out of Apple’s App Store.

For Mr. Kalanick, the moment was fraught with tension. If Uber’s app was yanked from the App Store, it would lose access to millions of iPhone customers — essentially destroying the ride-hailing company’s business. So Mr. Kalanick acceded.

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Mr. Kalanick was shaken by Mr. Cook’s scolding, according to a person who saw him after the meeting.

But only momentarily. After all, Mr. Kalanick had faced off against Apple, and Uber had survived. He had lived to fight another day.

 

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Instagram now more popular than Snapchat?

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Facebook have announced that they have over 200million daily users up from 150million in January.

This number reportedly engulfs Snapchats daily users of 161million people. Highlighting how much of a mammoth Facebook is, that it will copy your feature and then bury you with it. Additionally it highlights incredible growth with a feature that only launched in August of 2016 has hit 150million daily users in Jan 1/3 of Instagrams total 600million daily users.

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Typing School!

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Marcus Bronzy used the Penclic KB3 Mini Keyboard to test his typing skill this past week, to test test your typing please click here!

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Facebook fighting Revenge Porn!

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Facebook will use photo-matching technology to fight against revenge porn by identifying them with the tool and then removing the content.

Specially trained members of Facebook’s Community Operations team will be in charge of reviewing images and suspending accounts. Additionally Facebook users can also notify Facebook if they are suspect that a graphic image has been shared without permission by clicking report on the image.

In April 2015 it was made an offence in England and Wales to share private sexual images or video without the subject’s consent.

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How do you even get a job like this?

Is it technically dick detection software?

Have you ever come across this on your FB

Is Facebook becoming more important in society?

Could this be abused in some way?

Huawei chief questions Smartwatches

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Eric Xu, CEO of Chinese tech firm Huawei has said he doesn’t see the point in smartwatches.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, he responded to a question about smartphones longevity due to the rise of wearables:

Mr Xu said: “I’ve never figured out why we need to wear smartwatches when everything we need is on our phones….I’m not a man who wears watches, and I’ve never been optimistic about this market.”

Controversial but others have shared a different approach to Smartwatches:

“Smartwatches are a solution looking for a problem, rather than being a game-changer,” Ben Wood, an analyst at tech consultancy CCS Insight told the BBC, adding “2017 is a pivotal year for smartwatches with lots of new launches at the end of this year. That doesn’t guarantee success, but with a lot of them, we’ll see if people want them.”

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What do you think of smartwatches?

What do they have to do to make them go mainstream?

Do you see the point of them?

Are they more of a companion piece of tech than a must have?

What features would you put on them to turn it into a must have item?