Facebook’s Reality Labs share pioneering AR audio technology work

Facebook has been going all in on augmented reality but the company isn’t just focused on what we see.  In a post, the social media firm peeled back the curtain on Facebook Reality Labs’ pioneering work developing audio-enhancing technology. Their goal is to perfect ‘audio presence,’ where sounds from speakers, headphones or other devices are … Read more

Technology stocks hammered in day two of sell-off

Technology stocks suffer fresh losses in further sign that their extraordinary rally has run out of steam By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 21:57 BST, 4 September 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 4 September 2020 Technology stocks suffered fresh losses last night in a further sign that their extraordinary rally has run out … Read more

Kanye West sued by a company claiming he stole their technology for his Sunday Service shows

Kanye West sued by a company claiming he stole their technology for his Sunday Service shows By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 02:02 BST, 26 August 2020 | Updated: 02:02 BST, 26 August 2020 Kanye West got more bad news amid his long-shot presidential run as a company filed a lawsuit against him for failing … Read more

ALLIANZ TECHNOLOGY aiming for 20% returns

ALLIANZ TECHNOLOGY is a trust is still aiming for 20% returns By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 22 August 2020 Walter Price is confident that he can keep delivering stellar returns for those invested in the investment trust he runs – the £981million Allianz … Read more

Semi-autonomous lane-keeping systems in cars is a ‘nascent technology’

Drivers could be allowed to legally take their hands off the wheel on motorways early next year and a semi-autonomous system take over in the next phase of allowing self-driving cars onto Britain’s roads, the Department for Transport revealed earlier in the week. Ministers are examining whether new models fitted with an Automated Lane Keeping System … Read more

Federal agencies are worried face masks may be used to evade facial recognition technology

Federal agencies in the US are worried face masks may be used to evade facial recognition technology Documents show the DHS is worried that face masks may hinder the use of facial recognition technology Officials worry that they could be used by ‘violent extremists’ There is no current evidence that masks are being used by threat … Read more

Face of a man who lived 500 years ago in lost city of Poland is revealed with 3D technology 

He may have been a merchant or a craftsman, but one thing is sure is that experts now know what a man looked like when he walked the Earth during the 16th century. Archaeologists located a lost medieval village in Poland six years ago, which was home to a massive graveyard filled with more than … Read more

The best and worst performing funds of 2020 so far: Technology, US and gold

Funds invested in the US, in technology and in gold have topped the charts for the best performers of 2020 at the end of its tumultuous first six months.  While the massive global markets sell-off in March was indiscriminate, the recovery was less so. Sectors deemed vulnerable to Covid and the changing commercial landscape it … Read more

1947 French film predicts modern-day technology addiction

People using handheld devices at a cafe and driving cars equipped with television screens may sound like our reality, but these scenarios are sketches from a 1947 French film. ‘Télévision: Oeil de Demain,’ or ‘Television: Eye of Tomorrow,’ not only predicts a range of modern-day technologies, but also how human’s behave with the devices. The … Read more

Disney demonstrates deepfake technology that can swap people’s faces in high-resolution

Disney demonstrates deepfake technology that can swap people’s faces in high-resolution Disney’s deepfake technology pumps out videos at high-resolution The added megapixels help it create deepfakes at 1024 x 1024  It still has limitations before being used commercially  By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:49 BST, 30 June 2020 | Updated: 23:50 BST, 30 June 2020 … Read more