Category: Artificial Intelligence
Teleport’s neural networks let you try before you hair dye
Meet Teleport: An app that’s using a trained neural network to power a selfie-editing feature that lets you change the color of your hair at the touch of a button. Fancy seeing how you’d look with red locks or blue? No problemo. Just upload your selfie, wait a few ticks while the AI gets to […]
Watch this robot from Boston Dynamics totally eat it during demo
A robot fail usually sends shockwaves throughout the Internet, but a Boston Dynamics demo that went awry last month is just now getting a reaction. SEE ALSO: The creepiest videos from the robotics company Google just sold At the annual Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders at UMass Lowell, Boston Dynamics presented its humanoid […]
An AI created some craft beer names and the results are exactly what you expect
Let’s call it “Shock State.” Image: NEARMY/EPA/REX/Shutterstock If you’re a craft beer connoisseur or even just an occasional drinker you’ve likely noticed that names for new brews are getting out of hand. Likely in order to distance themselves from traditional, European beer names such as Franziskaner Royal, the new breed of craft beer makers are […]
Facebook said to be working on dedicated video chat device
Facebook is reportedly working on dedicated video chat hardware, per a new report by Bloomberg. The device is said to be the inaugural major product from Facebook’s hardware-focused Building 8 product development lab, and will include a notebook-sized display. “It’s intended to make video chat participants separated geographically feel like they’re together in the same […]
Rise of the machines: who is the Internet of things good for?
The long read: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality ordering our shopping, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all but how can it? In San Francisco, a young engineer hopes to optimise his life through sensors that track his […]