Did this footy supporter go too far? YES. Should be BANNED. From Disabled Old Fart!

Did this footy supporter go too far? #AFLDonsFreo #Disability @newscomauHQ https://t.co/qv2CFGIqJq

— Emma Reynolds (@emmareyn) August 28, 2017

MS Outlook outage: Australia heaviest hit in global incident

IF you are hoping to send some emails this morning, you might be out of luck with Microsoft’s email client, Outlook, suffering monumental outages across the globe.

Thousands of users have been reporting problems logging into and using the email service.

Aussie outages show Australia and Japan are the worst two hit areas, with hundreds of reports coming within the last hour.

Of those raising the issue, 54 per cent said they had trouble logging in…

Microsoft Outlook is suffering a global outage, with Australia the worst hit @newscomauHQ #outlookdown https://t.co/n19Q2I2Xwp

— matthew dunn (@mattydunn11) May 31, 2017

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Google will let smartphone understand what they see + take action [translates the text as well]

At Google’s I/O developer conference, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new technology called Google Lens. The idea with the product is to leverage Google’s computer vision and AI technology in order to bring smarts directly to your phone’s camera. As the company explains, the smartphone camera won’t just see what you see, but will also understand what you see to help you take action.

“What does this say?” Google Assistant then translates the text.

During a demo, Google showed off how you could point your camera at something and Lens tells you what it is — like, it could identify the flower you’re preparing to shoot.

In another example, Pichai showed how Lens could do a common task — connecting you to a home’s Wi-Fi network by snapping a photo of the sticker on the router.

In that case, Google Lens could identify that it’s looking at a network’s name and password, then offer you the option to tap a button and connect automatically.

A third example was a photo of a business’s storefront — and Google Lens could pull up the name, rating and other business listing information in a card that appeared over the photo.

The technology basically turns the camera from a passive tool that’s capturing the world around you to one that’s allowing you to interact with what’s in your camera’s viewfinder.

Later, during a Google Home demonstration, the company showed how Lens would be integrated into Google Assistant. Through a new button in the Assistant app, users will be able to launch Lens and insert a photo into the conversation with the Assistant, where it can process the data the photo contains.

To show how this could work, Google’s Scott Huffman holds his camera up to a concert marquee for a Stone Foxes show and Google Assistant pulls up info on ticket sales. “Add this to my calendar,” he says — and it does.

The integration of Lens into Assistant can also help with translations.

Huffman demonstrates this by holding up his camera to a sign in Japanese, tapping the Lens icon and saying “What does this say?” Google Assistant then translates the text.

In addition, Pichai showed how Google’s algorithms could more generally clean up and enhance photos — like when you’re taking a picture of your child’s baseball game through a chain-link fence, Google could remove the fence from the photo automatically. Or if you took a photo in a low-light condition, Google could automatically enhance the photo to make it less pixelated and blurry.

Source: Google Lens will let smartphone cameras understand what they see and take action | TechCrunch

Russia/Flynn/Freedom Caucus Vortex of questions and tension at the White House

As another frenzied Washington week closes, the White House seems to be losing control of the quickening intrigue over Russia’s meddling in the election, and allegations of links between the Trump campaign and Kremlin associates.

Characteristically, President Donald Trump’s team is often escalating confrontations rather than dampening them. It’s a strategy that may be making the challenges more intractable by the hour.

Trump gave fresh life to the Russia controversy with a stunning Twitter burst about the legal position of his sacked national security adviser Michael Flynn. And he’s simultaneously waging war with the conservative House Freedom Caucus which helped deal him a stinging defeat over the repeal of Obamacare — setting up a fateful test of presidential authority.

Source: Vortex of questions and tension at the White House – CNNPolitics.com