This app used by the US and Canadian police has millions of photos obtained from social networks to identify you

Over the weekend, the New York Times published a report on Clearview AI: an (until now) unknown company that offers facial recognition services to some 600 law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada.
Using this app, if someone takes a picture of you on the street, you could upload it to the platform and in a matter of seconds compare it to a gigantic database, being able to get your name, address or other details.
More than 3,000 million images

To give us an idea of ​​its capacity, this company has an image library that is seven times larger than the FBI. Using Clearview AI software, these agencies can compare uploaded photos with a database that has more than 3,000 million images.

To create this database, Clearview has fed it with content that they have extracted from social networks and even from the classic "about me" (about me) sections that appear on company websites
Currently, this Clearview tool is not available to the public, but The New York Times says that both investors and police believe it will be in the future.

Hacks for bit operations

On the Bit Twiddling Hacks page there is as great as old and esoteric collection of operations at the bit level to carry out all kinds of functions with numerical values ​​conveniently.
The tricks consist of moving bits, using operations such as AND, NOT, OR and XOR, arithmetic calculations and even making type changes (signed, unsigned integers or floating point numbers) depending on what is needed. The notation used is that of the C language.
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How the balls and lights that mark the high voltage lines are installed from a helicopter (there is a model with "flow capacitor")

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SpaceX’s goal, according to Musk, is to ultimately send one million people to Mars by 2050.

SpaceX’s goal, according to Musk, is to ultimately send one million people to Mars by 2050." Do you think this is achievable? Do you believe in Musk's mission?
 The creator of Tesla and SpaceX continues to think big: in a recent series of questions and answers on Twitter he gave some more details about the plans he has with his Starships, the gigantic ships with which he intends to put humanity on the way to Mars .And if you don't have money for the ticket to Mars, Elon lends it to you. more info at TechCrunch

Megatons per year to orbit are needed for life to become multiplanetary

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2020

It looks like a dove and flies like a dove

It is not the first (nor will it be the last) time that technology imitating nature, and now a group of researchers at Stanford University are showing an amazing robot capable of flying by mimicking many of the characteristics of birds.


more info at  Science Robotics  Science today,

Hydropanels that transform air into water: an ambitious product that seeks to help have a sustainable source of drinking water

Zero Mass Water is an American startup that for several years set out to develop products that help people have access to drinking water. In 2016 we were introduced to 'Source', a solar panel that aims to extract moisture from the air to condense it and thus offer drinking water.

This electric tricycle is powered by solar energy

It is called Wello, it is French and seeks to become an attractive solution for personal and freight transport within short distances. Its design is what could most attract attention as a tricycle, with two front wheels and one rear, but its strong point is that it has a sunroof that would allow it to recharge its battery and thus extend its autonomy.

The 3D audio system for the car, without speakers

MARTY, the DeLorean who drives alone, has learned new tricks from Stanford engineers

Microsoft predicted 11 years ago how the future was going to be

Only 11 years ago, from Redmond they released a video prediction showing the technological future. We could all theorize with something like that, but even at the time when the modern smartphone was taking off, the reality you see seemed somewhat exaggerated.

YouTuber tests Apple's Pro Display XDR with 13 different computers

Thanks to this technique we can listen to what a person who cannot speak has to say

Using computational models known as neural networks, a group of researchers has reconstructed words and sentences that, in some cases, were intelligible to human listeners and were intended to be verbalized by various patients.

The development of this technique allows people to "listen" to people who cannot speak due to illness simply by deciphering the data they recorded in the patients' brains. That is, it was enough for the person to imagine what he wanted to say.
more info in this link

Warner says that AI algorithms will guide its managers on what movies to make, with what actors and when to release

As Hollywood Reporter has advanced this morning, Warner Bros has signed a collaboration agreement with Cinelytic to use its project management tool based on artificial intelligence. The idea is, point in the middle, to use "the integral data of the system and the predictive analysis to guide the decision making in the stage of approval of projects", that is, to use the AI ​​to assess the impact of a certain actor or actress in each territory and get a prediction of the production box office.

Cinelytic states on its website that its goal is to "empower the global entertainment industry through cutting-edge tools and technology" and "combine best practices from the entertainment, finance, science and technology sectors to provide decision makers in the entertainment industry, access to the knowledge they need to optimize their content development, financing, production and distribution decisions. "

The most rare and peculiar devices of CES 2020

URGOnight, the helmet that helps you sleep better  

SelfieType, Samsung's invisible keyboard with artificial intelligence

Sony Vision S, Sony's electric car with 33 sensors  

Bzigo, a laser pointer to detect mosquitoes  

Prinker, the automatic tattoo artist  

Perso, the creator of L'Oreal cosmetics based on AI  

Y-Brush, the toothbrush that only takes 10 seconds to clean  

NextMind, the accessory to control devices with the mind  

Petit Qoobo. What is the Petit Qoobo? A kind of fake cat

Samsung's "artificial human" who seeks to be our virtual friend

The official website of the project simply makes it clear that we are not talking about a virtual assistant like Assistant, Alexa or Siri. They are "artificial humans," beings created by an AI that seem human, behave like humans and have the ability to express emotions and intelligence, according to Samsung. They are not intended to replace humans, but it could be said that they seek to complement them.
100% visually real, like you and me. Existing among us from all walks of life.Not an AI assistant. Not an interface to the Internet. Not a music player. Simply, a friend.

Xinhua's first English AI anchor

Xinhua's first English AI anchor makes debut at the World Internet Conference that opens in Wuzhen, China Wednesday.

Starting a cold engine in winter, the enormous effort the car makes every morning in winter

We are already fully involved in the winter. The temperatures have collapsed and the days usually dawn dyed by a white tone off signal that a good frost has fallen. It has already directly affected the cars that sleep on the street and indirectly those that do it in the garage, the cold affects the engine, and much.

Motors are mechanical organisms designed to work optimally in a specific temperature window, so all the elements suffer especially in the start-up phase and during the first minutes of use.

 To explain what happens inside the engine of a car when starting cold we will recover the fantastic video published by the Engineering Explained channel. In it we can see how the operation of an engine is analyzed under the prism of a thermal camera that graphically shows the temperature of each element through a color code.

The rumored iPhone 9 makes its appearance in an render

A render of the iPhone SE 2, a model that some call iPhone 9. we find a look at the external appearance of the rumored model. Judging by the appearance and as seen in previous months, it is a terminal based on the chassis of the iPhone 8.

From video games to the street: Sony now makes electric cars, like the Sony Vision-S that has presented in Las Vegas

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2020 has started in Las Vegas with surprise. While we waited for Bosch's new push to the autonomous car with its LIDAR sensor or to know the plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler 4xe, it was Sony who has monopolized much of the media focus and not just for its new televisions or to confirm the PS5 logo, but for revealing his first car.

We talk about the Sony Vision-S, a 100% electric sedan that, although it is true that at the moment it is a mere concept, opens the possibility of the irruption of the iconic Japanese technology brand in the automotive sector

The Skypod: the elevator converted into magnetic levitation capsules that look like a fairground attraction

This curious conceptual invention of the English architecture studio PLP Architecture is called Skypod and is a kind of elevator of the future, "because the traditional elevator has not changed much in 150 years." Of course the video is quite spectacular, but then we should see if it is technically practicable