Ryff has a big idea that it says could turn the $23 billion product placement market upside down. Product placement is the advertising tactic of placing a branded object, like a bottle of Coca-Cola, in a scene in a movie or a TV show.
Los Angeles-based Ryff has figured out how to do this digitally with cloud technology. Ryff figures out the places in video content where virtual objects can be placed in a scene where they seem like they are a natural part of the environment. That means the objects have to be rendered realistically enough so they can be mistaken for being part of a real scene, as recorded in a movie or TV show or a commercial, said Roy Taylor, CEO of Ryff, at an event on Thursday evening.
âWe are on a new platform that makes images intelligent,â Taylor said. âRyff is the worldâs first image technology company using AI and visual computing to change the way we experience entertainment.â
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The fund will launch with a $2 billion commitment, split between the Day 1 Families Fund â helping homeless families â and the Day 1 Academies Fund â creating a ânetwork of new, non-profit, tier-one preschools in low-income communities,â Bezos said.
As CEO of Amazon, founder of rocket company Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, Bezos is the wealthiest man in modern history, with a net worth of at least $150 billion.
Critics have long called for him to put his billions toward philanthropic efforts.
In June, Bezos teased that he had identified two areas of focus for future charitable endeavors.
Storms within a superstorm.
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellites tracking Typhoon Ompong (international name Super Typhoon Mangkhut) have found powerful storms surrounding the eye of the tropical cyclone days before its landfall over northern Luzon.
On September 13, the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite looked at Ompong in infrared as it was approaching the Philippines, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centerâs Rob Gutro said in a blog post.
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He says this has been done successfully with mice. They have mice live twice as long. They are testing aging reversal in dogs in 2018â2019. Human treatments could be available on a general basis by 2025.
George Church is developing better and better organs using pigs. They are working to slow or reverse the aging in the organs to be used for transplant.
He says this has been done successfully with mice. They have mice live twice as long. I mean that that humans could live 160 years if that were linear.
Earlier this year, we heard how scientists from the University of California San Diego had developed a flexible ultrasound patch that allows users to see the inner structure of irregular-shaped objects. Well, now theyâve made one that measures a patientâs blood pressure from deep within the body.
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The giant CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider will search for double-Higgs events.
IMAGE: MICHAEL HOCH AND MAXIMILIEN BRICE
For particle physicists eager to explore new frontiers, spotting the Higgs boson has become a bittersweet triumph. Detected in 2012 at the worldâs biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the long-sought particle filled the last gap in the standard model of fundamental particles and forces. But since then, the standard model has stood up to every test, yielding no hints of new physics. Now, the Higgs itself may offer a way out of the impasse. Experimenters at the LHC, located at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, plan to hunt for collisions that produce not just one Higgs boson, but two.
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A few factors were taken into consideration. These included security conditions, climatic conditions at that time of year, the existence of potential scientific partners, and what facilities were available.
Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary sciences in recent years. Thatâs been largely driven by the Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Astronomy, led by Maram Kaire. Some Senegalese researchers are also involved in the African Initiative for Planetary and Space Sciences, which I head up.
And so, NASA focused its efforts in Senegal. It sent 21 teams to the country, and six to Columbia, which had less favorable climatic conditions. One team, composed of Algerian astronomers from the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique et GĂ©ophysique, also attempted to observe the occultation in the south of Algeria.
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Speaking at a Q&A session hosted for a Madrid universityâs Masterâs of Business Administration students, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell talked for nearly an hour about the launch companyâs next-generation BFR rocket, the reality of long-term life on Mars, and more, revealing a number of interesting tidbits in the process.
Almost entirely led by questions from the unusually well-informed audience, the graduate students and professors predominately kept the famous SpaceX exec more or less focused on the companyâs future, delving into the reasoning behind BFR. Shotwell had only praise for the next-generation launch vehicle, which is targeting initial hop tests in late 2019 and its first full launches as early as 2021, a delay of several months from previous schedule estimates targeting hops in early 2019 and orbit by 2020.
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