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Samsung Places Fridge at Center of Smart Home samsung on Wednesday unveiled the Family Hub Refrigerator at CES, ongoing in Las Vegas through Saturday. The new refrigerator sports a 21.5-inch full HD LCD screen on the upper right outside door, which doubles as a communications center. The screen lets users post, share and update calendars, as well as pin digital photos, share images and leave notes. The Family Hub Refrigerator supports WiFi, Samsung said in a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by company rep Kate Knox.   Fridge Features   The Family Hub Refrigerator has built-in speakers for music streaming, and it can connect to Bluetooth wireless speakers. Users can view TV programs on the screen, using screen mirroring with their Samsung smart TV. Three interior cameras capture images every time the fridge door closes -- to take stock of its contents -- and then send them to the user's smartphone. Users can check the c...

Try | Microsoft Project Oxford Emotion Happy? Sad? Angry? This Microsoft tool recognizes emotions in pictures Humans have traditionally been very good at recognizing emotions on people’s faces, but computers? Not so much. That is, until now. Recent advances in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence are allowing computer scientists to create smarter apps that can identify things like sounds, words, images – and even facial expressions. The Microsoft Project Oxford team today announced plans to release public beta versions of new tools that help developers take advantage of those capabilities, including one that can recognize emotion. Chris Bishop, head of Microsoft Research Cambridge in the United Kingdom, showed off the emotion tool earlier today in a keynote talk at Future Decoded, a Microsoft conference on the future of business and technology. The tools, many of which are used in Microsoft’s own products, are designed for developers who do...

Facebook's Like Button Will Soon Have These Emoticon Alternatives, Says Report Facebook is preparing to test a new “reactions” feature that would allow users to reply to posts with more than a “Like,” according to a report from Engadget ES. The site on Thursday published mockups of the feature, which adds a range of emoticons to Facebook’s standard thumbs-up Like button. Citing unnamed sources, Engadget reports that the feature will be rolled out to users in Spain and Ireland as early as Friday. The report follows a recent announcement from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said at a public Q&A session last month that the site had begun working on new ways for users to “express empathy” beyond the “Like” button. The set of reactions published by Engadget does not include the thumbs-down “Dislike” button that many had expected at the time of Zuckerberg’s announcement, though it does feature angry and sad smiley faces. Other icons include a heart, a smiling face, ...

LG G4 BEAT DELIVERS PREMIUM DESIGN, SUPERIOR FEATURES IN A MID-TIER PACKAGE Advanced Display, Advanced Camera and Striking Design Come  Together to Create an Exceptional Phone Without the Exceptional Price SEOUL, July 9, 2015 — LG Electronics (LG) officially unveiled its newest variant of its widely praised LG G4 flagship smartphone. The LG G4 Beat1 retains the best features and functions of the LG G4, delivering value without compromising performance or usability. The LG G4 Beat will make its debut this month in key markets in Europe and Latin America, including France, Germany and Brazil before rolling out globally in markets such as Canada, India, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and Turkey, among others. The LG G4 Beat comes with a 5.2-inch Full HD IPS Display, which is clearer, sharper and more responsive than anything offered by LG before in this category. A powerful Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 615 processor running eight cores at 1.5GHz with integrated 4G L...

New hands-on photos of the Galaxy A8 show Samsung's thinnest smartphone again, fingerprint scanner confirmed While Samsung hasn't confirmed the existence of the Galaxy A8, the handset is almost certainly coming soon. Last month, the A8 was approved by China's telecom authorities, while also showing up in hands-on photos, and even in a hands-on video. Today, we can see the Galaxy A8 once again, thanks to Chinese website PC Online, which had the chance to thoroughly check out the handset. As previously reported, the Galaxy A8 measures 158 x 76.77 x 5.94 mm, being the thinnest Samsung smartphone to date. The A8 is built around a metal frame, and resembles the Galaxy S6 (at least when viewed from the front). However, this new Galaxy is not exactly a high-end device, though its features are pretty nice anyway. Powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor, the Galaxy A8 offers 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of expandable internal memory, a slimmed-down 16 MP ISOCE...

Samsung Electronics announced the company has been named by the Reputation Institute as the most reputable technology company in the United States. The Reputation Institutes RepTrakR100 study recognizes Samsung as the leader in corporate reputation defined by several criteria including social responsibility and citizenship, innovation, product and services excellence, and creating a great workplace environment. “Delivering amazing products and services is just one part of the Samsung story,” says Gregory Lee, president and chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics North America. “Being recognized as an industry leading place to work that gives back to the communities we serve is a true honor.” The Reputation Institute’s RepTrakR model is the gold standard for reputation measurement, providing a one-of-a-kind measurement of how the public views the world’s best-known companies. The study examines perceptions of companies by the US general public based...

Google testing a cardiac sensor wristband Google is testing a new connected wristband capable of taking ECG and measuring environmental stressors. Google is working on a wearable device that can help doctors remotely monitor patients' health. The connected wristband can take a person's electrocardiogram (or EKG) and assess environmental stressors, including light and noise levels. The "investigational device," intended for research and academic purposes, was first reported by Bloomberg Tuesday. In an email to CNNMoney, Google (GOOGL, Tech30) says the studies will help the company figure out how the watch-like gadget could be used to study and treat diseases. Activity sensors in the wristband could detect changes in a person's mobility, which would help in studying Parkinson's, for example. Physicians could also advise heart attack patients to wear the wristband after being released from the hospital. "Our ho...