TED Showcases Virtual Human, Skype Releases SDK (but be quick) and CouchDB 1.0 is 300% Faster

‘Virtual human’ Milo comes out to play at TED in Oxford – Microsoft Kinect invention ‘Milo’ responds to your voice, follows commands and after recognises you after three quarters of an hour. As his mind is in the cloud, the more people that use Milo the more he’ll learn. Milo is not available yet as it’s still in development – but I’ll keep you posted!

CouchDB 1.0 Released – includes Windows support and is 300% (yes, that’s 300%!) faster than the previous version. That’s faster than Roadrunner, right?

Reality Gets a Makeover – The Augmented Reality Drone (A Drone) is a toy helicopter equipped with cameras that send videos back to an iPhone or iPad to create a real world video game

Skype’s SDK arrives in beta for Windows, Mac – Skype is offering a limited, invite-only beta release of the SDK, called SkypeKit, to those who request it. SkypeKit beta will work for Windows (x86) and Mac OS X

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