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Dr Dre joins up with HTC to launch new mobile phone

HTC just announced its new Sensation XL model, which uses Dre’s ‘Beats Audio’ technology in order to appeal to the increasing number of people who play music through their phone. The XL is the second phone to be produced since the partnership was announced in August. The Sensation XE was the first release using the technology. “Great audio is no longer an experience that consumers are willing to sacrifice when purchasing a phone,” Jimmy Lovine, the chairman of Beats by Dre, told the Telegraph . “The digital revolution has been great for everything but music,” he added, referring to the lack of sound quality on mobile phones, both for recordings and playback.

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Captcha Is Hard

I am a judgment matchmaking specialist (Judgment Broker) who writes a lot. This article is my opinion about how Captcha and other challenge systems may have gone too far, far further than they should. Captcha stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. The words were first used around 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper, and John Langford of the Carnegie Mellon University. Turing is the name of a repeatable test of a computer’s ability to behave with human-like intelligence. If a computer can fool a person into believing they are communicating with another human, the machine passes the test.

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Captcha Is Hard

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YouTube Launches New Video Editor

The engineers and developers at YouTube have created a new video editing tool that will make editing videos on YouTube faster and easier, without having to worry about installing and learning new software. Available in TestTube — where users can test new tools and provide creators with feedback — the new online video editor allows users to combine multiple videos to create a new longer video, edit the beginning and/or ending of videos, and add soundtracks from YouTube’s AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs.

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Google Aborts Radio Ads, Cuts 40 Jobs

Three years after Google launched Audio Ads and Radio Automation, the search engine has announced that it will be aborting both products after May 31 and eliminating up to 40 employees.

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