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Sep 14, 2018
Ryff lets advertisers place any virtual object into commercials and films
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
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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Sep 14, 2018
Amazonâs Jeff Bezos launches a $2 billion âDay One Fundâ to help homeless families and create preschools
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: futurism, space travel
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.
Sep 14, 2018
What NASA satellites found around Typhoon Ompongâs eye
Posted by Michael Lance in category: satellites
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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Sep 14, 2018
Plants have their own kind of nervous system
Posted by Mike Ruban in category: media & arts
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Model mustard plant uses the same signals as animals to relay distress.
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Sep 14, 2018
George Church talks about reversing human aging and claims they made mice live twice as long
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
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.
Sep 14, 2018
Ultrasound patch goes deep to better-monitor blood pressure
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: biotech/medical
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.
Sep 13, 2018
Physicists plan hunt for Higgs boson pairs
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
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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
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Sep 13, 2018
NASA picked this West African country to find out more about an asteroid in outer space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: security, space
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.
Sep 13, 2018
SpaceX President talks BFR and Mars exploration in laid-back Madrid Q&A session
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: alien life, futurism
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.
