For some, this is the stuff of nightmares. For others, it’s one of the paths out of the ‘uncanny valley’, which is inhabited by humanlike figures that make use feel uneasy or uncomfortable by failing to be truly convincing. This video describes the development of a system for lifelike gaze in human-robot interactions using a […]
How OpenAI’s Jukebox project is deepfaking Sinatra, Elvis, 2Pac and more OpenAI, which describes itself as a “research and deployment company” and which is the home of, amongst other things, GPT-3, is running a project that uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with lyrics, in a variety of genres and artist styles. Jukebox as […]
Pinewood Studios Group has announced the launch of Screen Hub UK, a £450 million expansion of the Iver Heath site. Highlights include: 350,000 square feet of new film production facilitiesa a green campus an area dedicated to nurturing and growing new creative businesses related to film production an educational training and skills hub a film […]
Internet-only channel Direct will air French, international and US films and series that are already available on the main Netflix service Netflix chose France for the experiment because the population still watches lots of traditional TV and the company is keen to maintain its advantage over Salto, the French domestic streaming platform that launched in […]
NASA is currently preparing its Artemis project, which could see space tourists taking a trip around the Moon with astronauts on the Artemis II mission as early as 2023 followed by the first woman landing on the lunar surface. NASA wants to enlist the Media & Entertainment, media tech and telecoms industries to help audiences […]
In addition to the 3.8 million homes in Southampton, Manchester, Reading, Birmingham, Coventry, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford and Glasgow already receiving its gigabit broadband service, Virgin Media has announced that it will now be available to almost 3 million homes in the Greater London area. Amongst other things, it will mean that overall around 45% […]