With deepfake you can imitate actors with their own face
He puts his voice and gestures into it, the deepfake puts his face into it, and the actor literally becomes the characters he is imitating. The effect is crazy.
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Facebook acquires CTRL-Labs and its bracelet that "reads" the brain
The CTRL-Labs wrist band encodes the signals sent from the brain to the hand and transforms them into actions in VR or AR environments.
Mystery on Google's announcement: "quantum supremacy has been achieved"
Google releases a statement, later removed but collected by the Financial Times, in which it announces the exceptional achievement of quantum supremacy.
Bill Gates: “It's time for wind and solar funding to go somewhere else.”
“Incentives go to more pressing things: I'm thinking of energy conservation through batteries, or offshore wind farms,” says Bill Gates.
The wait is over: here is the Neuralink presentation
The human-computer connection will be able to read and write a huge amount of information. In the Neuralink presentation the first, important vision.
Save data on DNA? Closer than ever
It is stable, capacious, extremely durable: that's why reading and writing data on DNA is a very, very popular future practice
UNESCO warning: voice assistants encourage sexism
The tendency for voice assistants to “deflect, gloss over or give conciliatory responses” when insulted is considered particularly worrying, reinforcing the belief that women are subjected to abuse and harassment.
5 predictions in 5 years for a revolution: VR and AR will change the world
Here are 5 predictions on small revolutions that with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will add more worlds to what we live.
Is the future of the hamburger green? The growth of the vegan alternative continues
Beyond Meat has focused everything on changing consumer eating habits to move to a model with zero or very little meat and its vegetarian alternatives. Are you right?
The next hard drive? It will be DNA.
The preservation of information is increasingly crucial: this is why companies like Microsoft are studying the "hard disks" of the future. Among the most promising research is that which focuses on a truly exceptional "physical memory": DNA. Our DNA is a medium that stores data about us: on an IT level its "performance" is extraordinary. Like Hard Disk, DNA does not degrade over time. It is so versatile that it contains in just 4 grams all the information produced in an entire … Read more
The return of Nokia 6: the first Android smartphone
Do you remember #Nokia, the famous brand of indestructible cell phones? Well, now he's back, and he's produced #Nokia 6, the company's first #Android smartphone. The famous Finnish brand, which had been so all the rage in the past decade, has been licensed to the HMD company, a company founded by former Nokia and Microsoft employees who will be able to use the brand for another ten years. After various rumors and previews, HMD finally officially presents the Nokia 6. A simple mid-range Android smartphone with Android 7... Read more
Duoskin, the tattoo that brings electronics to our body
Not just touch and super-connected clothes: soon we will be able to communicate with the smartphone even through our skin, via a #tattoo called #Duoskin. It's called epidermal electronics and soon we will all be able to find it on ourselves: the design of each tattoo is customizable, the colors are silver and gold and the aesthetics are fabulous. The prototype was created by a student of the MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Microsoft Research, it is made of gold leaf (the conductive material), integrates an electronic component and is transferred ... Read more
The first neural keyboard for Android is born: it's SwiftKey
The new keyboard, called SwiftKey Neural Alpha, is still under development. It will be available to some users to test it.
R1, the first home robot
Everyone talks about nothing other than #R1, the first "family" robot produced by the Italian Institute of Technology (Iit) in Genoa. R1's "father", Giorgio Metta, is convinced of the great potential of his little robot: "The commercial prospects are immense". “R1 Your Personal Humanoid” was created starting from the experience gained from the creation of iCub, the most widespread humanoid research robot in the world. R1 has an Italian design, weighs approximately 50 kilos, has a height varying from 1 meter and 25 to 1 … Read more
Paul Allen and the largest plane in the world
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is working on a "big" project: he wants to build (and fly) the largest plane in the world. In the competition for the race to conquer space, Paul Allen has decided to rely on SpaceX and Virgin Galactic for the creation of a particular and enormous plane from which to launch satellites into orbit. According to Reuters, which launched the news, Stratolaunch Systems, a division of the Vulcan Aerospace company owned by Paul Allen, … Read more
Virtual teleportation has arrived
It's not a real teleportation, but almost. In fact, Microsoft announced to the world that it had created Holoportation: the system allows you to transport your virtual image from one part of the world to another and interact with distant people as you would face to face. In short, with a kind of hologram of the type seen in Star Wars. The system is based on a high definition video camera system and Hololens viewers, which, … Read more
Google is the virtual reality viewer
Will 2016 be the year of virtual reality, or augmented reality? Many analysts believe so. And Google doesn't want to miss the opportunity. Already in mid-January the company announced the launch of a new division, which will focus exclusively on the development of projects related to virtual reality. In fact, the strong competition from Facebook and its Oculus should not be forgotten. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has named Clay Bavor to head the division, which previously ran Gmail and Drive. Being… Read more
With HoloLens sport becomes 3D
What will it be like to watch the sport of the future? With Hololens, futuristic Black Mirror-style scenarios, with each of us equipped with a microcomputer and recorder in our eyes, is not that far away. If we no longer hear about Google Glass, in fact, Microsoft's HoloLens project is more alive than ever, and shows us today what it will be like to watch the sport of the future. The first models of HoloLens will be given to developers only in March this year (at a cost… Read more
Volvo and hololens transfigure the way of seeing the car
Do you remember the Microsoft Holodesk project and its developments? We talked about it in an article some time ago. The first practical applications of this holographic technology are arriving all over the world, and Volvo, the Swedish car manufacturer, did not wait long to embark on a path that will lead to holograms becoming an integral part of the process of choosing and purchasing a car. car. Let's just think for a moment about the immediate implications of Holodesk and its Hololens, the headset attached to it... Read more
The gym of the future
Gyms are not a recent phenomenon: if you think that it is only a place linked to the vain and obese, you are wrong. The 'gymnasium' was the ancient Greek space that hosted the physical exercises and training of athletes. The first gym in the form we know came out in the middle of the last century, with a point of no return: the creation of the first working treadmill, in the 60s, which allowed the first brave people to start running in ... Read more
4 predictions about the future of the web
One thing is certain: the Internet will never be the same again. If the forecasts for upcoming web developments seem obvious and inevitable, it is true that they will lead to marked changes in our experience of using the Net.
