Gizmodo reported that Disney researchers recently designed a novel neural network which is capable of altering the visual age of actors in film or TV. This technology will allow movie producers make actors appear younger or older making use of…
New Website Allows Users Search Through Files from the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s
Jason Scott, tech archivist, announced today the creation of a new website referred to as Discmaster which allows the search of 91.7 million vintage computer files obtained from floppy disks and CD-ROM releases. These files include games, images, music, shareware,…
Interpol is Setting Up a Police Team in the Metaverse
Interpol, the global security organization has just announced ‘the first-ever metaverse specifically designed for law enforcement worldwide.’ They report that this would help police officers worldwide to ‘interact with other officers via their avatars,’ and take ‘immersive training courses in…
Study Reveals That AI Tools Do Not Reduce Recruitment Bias
Researchers from Cambridge University recently said in a study that Artificial Intelligence (AI) hiring tools do not improve diversity, neither do they reduce bias. ‘There is growing interest in new ways of solving problems such as interview bias,’ the researchers…
AI Model Assesses Middle School Science Essays
A team of computer scientists at the Penn State University recently studied the efficiency of Natural Language Processing—a form of AI— for evaluating and giving feedback on the science essays of students. Their results were detailed in the International Society…
Researchers Say Anonymous Data doesn’t equal Private Data
A research team at the Illinois Institute of Technology have been successful in extracting personal information such as gender and age from anonymous cellphone data making use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. This has raised a lot of…