Zoom's new 'Avatars' filter lets you turn into a virtual animal during meetings — here's how to set it up

Zoom's new "Avatars" filter can turn you into a virtual animal during meetings. Your animal avatar will move, blink, and open ...
CBS News

Aurora police hope to add facial recognition technology to crime-fighting tools

The Aurora Police Department wants to add facial recognition software to its crime-fighting toolkit. The technology, already used in other Colorado cities, has long been controversial. Civil rights ...
The Verge

Nvidia is letting anyone use its AI voice animation tech

Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations for 3D avatars based on audio input. Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
Phoenix New Times

ASU to use facial recognition to speed up admission to football games

After two sold-out home football games and record student turnouts, Arizona State University officials are looking for ways to ease entry to jam-packed Mountain America Stadium. So the school is ...
Game Rant

Classic Games That Use A Stop-Motion Animation Art Style

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...
Digital Trends

Toy Story broke animation. 30 years later, we’re still trying to pick up the pieces

There is something truly remarkable about watching Toy Story 30 years after the film’s release. Although CG animation has come a long way in the intervening years, the story remains undeniably ...
Los Angeles Times

An AI-animated film will debut next year. Is this AI’s ‘Toy Story’ moment?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An animated feature film that uses artificial intelligence tools from OpenAI is expected to debut next year, ...
The Conversation

Pregnant women face tough choices about medication use due to lack of safety data − here’s why medical research cuts will make it worse

Almut Winterstein consults on medication safety issues to Merck, Syneos, Lykos and Novo Nordisk. She receives funding for pregnancy-related research from NIH, CDC, FDA, and the Gates Foundation. Sonja ...
WBAL-TV

City councilman wants to use facial recognition to ID break-ins suspect, but law doesn't allow it

IT ALSO DEMONSTRATES A PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR THAT SUSPECT OFTEN KNOCKING ON THE DOOR, RINGING THE DOORBELL TO MAKE SURE NO ONE’S HOME BEFORE A BREAK-IN OCCURS. WITH THE LATEST HAPPENING HERE. JUST TWO ...
ZDNet

Microsoft Copilot 3D turns your 2D images into 3D models for free - how to try

Copilot 3D will turn your 2D images into 3D models. The tool is freely available to anyone, though you do need a Microsoft account. Microsoft suggests using an image with a single subject, even ...
New York Post

This popular ‘90s toy is trending as collector’s item, selling for hundreds online

One of the most popular kids toys of the ‘90s is trending online, and if you’ve still got one, you might just be able to use it to pay off the week’s groceries (or maybe even a few weeks). Fisher ...