Introducing a new type of face-swapping, an update to the popular face-swap app Reface now lets you upload and animate old portraits, monuments, paintings, and memes with your own face. Reface Now Lets You Animate Uploaded Photos With Your Face Reface calls the new feature Swap Animation, and it allows users to upload their own […]
Continue ReadingEdward Snowden is a whole lot of things: NSA whistleblower, ex-computer intelligence consultant, activist… pricey non-fungible token? This last accolade is garnered thanks to the news that Snowden’s NFT, an artwork of his face constructed out of pages of a U.S. appeals court decision about the mass surveillance program he helped expose, has sold for […]
Continue ReadingAs people continue to spend most of their daily lives indoors, worlds built by virtual and augmented reality are becoming more and more populated. Facebook wants to enhance that experience, by creating more realistic avatars driven by face and eye tracking on future Quest devices. Facebook Working on Oculus Quest 3 and 4 In a […]
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Admit it, you find playing around with image editing tools such as Photoshop and GIMP fun. And you can do virtually anything with these tools, from simple photo touch-ups to the creation of impressive graphics. However, trying to use these apps isn’t as much fun if you don’t know what you’re doing. Which is where […]
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Facial recognition technology is being increasingly scrutinized as a threat to privacy, with its use by law enforcement and in public places. But it’s not only outside that you need to worry about facial recognition. Companies like Google are starting to make smart home devices which use facial recognition too. One Google device has a […]
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Formerly known as emoticons and smileys, emoji faces are used on SMS and social media apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. But what do emojis mean? What each emoji means is often open to interpretation—further complicated by heart and hand symbols. Unicode publishes standards on what emojis mean, but they’re not always used as intended. They […]
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