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The first trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has arrived. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes features a star-studded cast that includes Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, and Hunter Schafer. Francis Lawrence, who directed the final two films in The Hunger Games quartet, returns to helm the prequel. Based […]
A Russian robotics company has issued an unusual offer. The company is willing to pay someone $200,000 to use their face and voice for a human-like robot. According to a press release, Promobot has been “seeking a face for a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls, and other crowded places. The company is ready […]
Thursday, HBO and game developer Naughty Dog announced a TV adaptation of the PS3/PS4 classic The Last of Us. With Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and TLOU co-creator Neil Druckmann both involved as producers and writers, it’s safe to say the series is in good hands. But as soon as the news was revealed, fans immediately began wondering who would play […]
Senators introduced a bill on Thursday that would require companies to get explicit consent from the subjects of photos before they could use them in a set of facial recognition data. The bill was proposed by Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri and Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii following news that IBM collected nearly […]
In a blog post published Wednesday, the ACLU issued a warning about recent developments regarding a patent application filed by Amazon, which would use facial recognition, like Rekognition, in conjunction with the doorbell camera company Ring. The patent says the tech would be a “powerful deterrent against would-be burglars,” however, the ACLU is warning that it would create a “massive […]
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