3D Sound One Headphones

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3D Sound One headphones are much more than your standard stereo headphones. Get immersed in sound unlike anything you have experienced before. Release the tone that is trapped in your head and let it embrace your surroundings.

The spatial simulation of sound and the use of motion sensors (head tracking) produce an experience with unprecedented realism. Lose yourself into a multitude of surround sound sources adapting to the smallest of movements. (3Dsoundlabs.com)

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Disney Laughing Detection

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Disney want to know how you enjoy their films, at IEEE’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Disney Research and Caltech highlighted the way they track facial expressions of people watching films.

The tech is so advanced they claim that they can predict the face’s future expressions through the remainder of a film, its called “factorised variational autoencoders” (FVAEs)

To make this possible, researchers used infared cameras to the audiences of 150 showings of 9 films, including a lot of Disney movies! Like Zootopia, Big Hero 6 and the recent Star Wars films.

After compiling this huge amount of data, they went back and tested it on some more moviegoers, after an initial set up period the FVAEs were able to predict when an audience member (remember these are brand new fresh audiences) was about to laugh or smile as tied to significant moments in each of the films. They hope to predict other emotive moments in films such as fear and sadness. How this data will be used is unclear, but it could help them better understand audience reactions than human based market research.

 

Nest Camera Catches Landlord!

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A married couple in the US spotted their landlord shagging in their bed via their Nest Camera. The camera notified Logan Pierce via the app that, there was ‘activity’ going on in their bedroom. When he opened up his app he was able to witness a live 6-minute sex show that starred his very own landlord, who wiped lube off the bed with an item of their clothing, while his sex partner cleaned his genitals with Pierce’s wife’s wedding dress.

Their landlord was arrested for trespassing and negotiated a plea deal, he is due to be sentenced on September 22nd. Punishment for first degree trespassing in Colorado (where the crime was committed) is up to three years.

 

UK Email Hacker Trolls US Officials

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A British prankster (@SINON_REBORN) has amazingly pranked a number of high level US officials writing to Tom Bossert (Homeland Security Officer) posing as Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner:

Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August. It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible [sic] quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening.

Bossert:

Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can’t refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is [redacted]

Scaramucci, was a victim as well with the prankster posing as Priebus.

Fake Priebus:

I had promised myself I would leave my hands mud free, but after reading your tweet today which stated how; “soon we will learn who in the media who has class, and who hasn’t”, has pushed me to this. That tweet was breathtakingly hypocritical, even for you. At no stage have you acted in a way that’s even remotely classy, yet you believe that’s the standard by which everyone should behave towards you? General Kelly will do a fine job. I’ll even admit he will do a better job than me. But the way in which that transition has come about has been diabolical. And hurtful. I don’t expect a reply.

Scaramucci:

You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize.

Fake Preibus:

I can’t believe you are questioning my ethics! The so called “Mooch”, who can’t even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for.

Scaramucci replied:

Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello. You are right there. My family is fine by the way and will thrive. I know what you did. No more replies from me.
In a follow-up message @SINON_REBORN tweeted but which was not included in the CNN report, the fake Priebus taunted Scaramucci about his “zero dollar pay scale,” adding, “Keep spell checking your press releases, Anthony. It’s me that will be thriving.”

Scaramucci also fell for it again with Sinon this time posing as Jon Huntsman Jr Ambassador to Russia-designate:

“Who’s [sic] head should roll first? Maybe I can help things along somewhat”

Scaramucci:

“Both of them,”

We can only assume he’s referring to Steve Bannon.

SINON_REBORN also posed as Trump’s son Eric in emails to Huntsman:

Thanks for the thoughtful note. Russia will be a challenging but no doubt rewarding assignment.

Fake Eric:

Maybe we could have Dad sat (sic) on a horse, top off, giving the full Putin! He’s in better shape than his suits suggest.

Eric Trump, the real one, was the only one who caught on to the prank and told the prankster  @SINON_REBORN that law enforcement were aware.

 

A Company Is MicroChipping It’s Employees

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A company in the US, Three Two Market based in Wisconsin, is planning to microchip it’s employees, yet the implants are totally voluntary.

Three Two Market are paying for the £230 procedure which is performed by a Swedish Company called BioHax. Todd Westby CEO of Three Two Market sees the implants (which strangely enough, will go between the webbing of the thumb and index finger) to open doors, use of copy machines, logging on to the computers, storing medical info and payment at RFID terminals.

Security is of course a major concern as it could allow hackers to steal data and what’s stopping the companies people work for from snooping on their employees? However it is said that no data is stored or monitored at a company level, but it is unclear if BioHax has access to this data. The chip only communicates with a reader such as a door, or a vending machine. But what happens if someone quits? Leaves?

 

Dark matter discovery

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New map reveals more detail about dark matter

There has been an age old question that no one has been able to answer yet  – ‘what is dark matter made of?’

New research might be closer to the answer as new images help scientists understand what dark matter is made from and learn more about another mysterious phenomenon called dark energy.

The subject matter for many science fiction films and TV series over the past 5 decades, we might be a step closer to getting to the bottom of dark matter…

According to Professor Ofer Lahav of University College London (UCL) the map would provide new insights into how the Universe operates and he explained: “Once we have the full survey, 300 million galaxies and a thousand supernovae, we may be providing input for a new Einstein to tell us what does it all mean – why is the Universe made the way it is?”

Electronic Skin

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Electronic skin has been developed by researchers in Japan

The Electronic Skin can be worn on the human body and has many uses.

The skin has an organic circuit that can be worn on the skin, it’s ten times lighter than skin and lighter than a feather.

The skin is surprisingly tough and resilient and has been in development for 10 years.

Many potential uses for the skin include monitoring your health, it can be worn as an electronic tattoo or in the future generate images within the electronic skin.

Drones with X-Ray vision

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Kind of… 

X-Ray vision was still thought to be a thing of the future…

…we are now in the future. Researchers are trialling a process that uses WiFi signals and a little interpolation to literally see through walls.

The system is two-fold, one drone blasts WiFi through the structure and another picks up the signal.

They then work in tandem, the two drones fly around the solid structure until it maps the differences in wave strength at different points. Using this information the researchers have been able to create a 3D model of a closed building.

Although you won’t be able to see though walls in incredible detail, the process has implications to be used in emergency situations when you need to know what’s inside the building without breaking down the doors.

Clothes you can vend

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Uniqlo shirts at push of a button in airport vending

Japanese clothing brand has installed its first vending machine that will dispense clothing at a Californian airport.

There are plans to launch 9 others at airports including Los Angeles, Houston and New York in the coming months.

The stock will include men and women’s lightweight shirts and jackets.

These vending machines are ideal for the millennial who has to take a last minute business trip or if you’ve under-packed and only realise when you get to the airport. In short, it’s the ultimate convenience stop and as the brand is so popular travellers might even vend even if they don’t need a new shirt or jacket.

Facebook Shut Down Their Own AI After It Creates Own Language

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Facebook shut down their AI programs after it appeared to create it’s own language that only they could understand. The chatbots created their own changes to English which made it easier for them to understand but was absolute rubbish to humans.

The task they set their chat bots were to trade items with one another, each item being given a numerical value, however it soon became apparent that only the bots understood what they each meant, after being told not to use comprehensive English, they (the chatbots) created a form of shorthand, after being instructed to work out how to negotiate and improve bartering.

The negotiations look weird:

Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

Bob: you i i i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

Bob: you i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

As you can see there seems to be some rules, the chatbots stress their own name as a way of negotiating and it’s not a glitch, with some items being traded successfully. With Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research divisions visiting researcher Dhruv Vatra saying that “If I said ‘the’ five times, you’d interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. This isn’t so different to the way communities of humans create shorthands”

Researcher Mike Lewis told FastCo that they shut down the ChatBots because they wanted to have bots that could talk to humans, not because they were afraid of SkyNet coming to life in front of them.

To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!