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The 'Minecraft' movie will now be directed by Peter Sollett

Engadget

The Warner Bros. Minecraft movie has a new director... again. Variety reports that Peter Sollett is now on board to write and direct the long-awaited movie, which was at one point supposed to be released in May of this year. However, production has hit delays, due in part to director switchups. Previously, Rob McElhenney (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was set to direct the film, but he left the project last August. And he had taken over from Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) who dropped out in 2014.


At CES, Hyundai unveils car with legs that can walk and climb

FOX News

Hyundai, the South Korea based automotive company, unveiled its latest innovation this week at the Consumer Electronics Show -- a car with legs. The vehicle, dubbed Elevate, can walk and climb in addition to drive, and is geared toward aiding emergency responders in tough-to-reach areas after a natural disaster. "The legs have five-degrees of freedom. So, these legs can walk in mammalian mode and reptilian, and that really makes it omnidirectional," David Byron, manager of design and innovation at Sundberg Ferar, a company working with Hyundai on the project, told Fox News."It can go anywhere, it can drive like a regular car but when it gets to a situation where a normal wheeled vehicle reached its limit, this can standup -- crawl over various terrain." Although the concept sounds intriguing, John Suh, vice president and founding director of Hyundai CRADLE -- the company's corporate venturing innovation business -- stressed there is no timetable for actual production.


CES Editors' Choice Awards: The best and coolest tech to expect in 2019

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. CES is the biggest technology show of the year, and every year Reviewed's crack team of product experts spend days sorting through the thousands of new releases that debut in Las Vegas. To weed out the pretenders and highlight only the things we think will actually make a splash in 2019. We call them our CES Editors' Choice winners, and once again we've found some truly exceptional products. Though there are plenty of flashy products making big promises, we focus on the stuff you're actually going to buy this year. All 40 of our winners strike a balance in our four key criteria: innovation, technology, design, and value. Congratulations to all of our winners and be sure to check back as we update this page with coverage of all of our winners as CES 2019 continues. Okay, while a "roll-up" OLED TV did debut last year, the LG R9--technically, the OLED65R9PUA--is a real, flesh-and-blood product.


Maria Johnsen: Digital Marketing Expert, Filmmaker & Book Author - Mr. Web Capitalist

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Today I'm going to talk with Maria Johnsen, an entrepreneur, digital marketing expert, filmmaker and an author of many books. In this interview, she's going to talk about her daily life, struggles as an entrepreneur and her favorite moments in the business. Could you describe what do you do and how you earn your living? I run a multilingual digital marketing company in Norway and film production company in London, UK. I earn my living through my video creation and digital marketing services.


Game of thrones: 'Intelligent toilets' all the rage at CES 2019

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Smart gadgets seem to be everywhere nowadays, popping up in our cars and even in our refrigerators. But there's one place they've been absent from - until now, that is: Our toilets. At the Consumer Electronics Show, the display floor was flush with'intelligent toilets' that tout all kinds of high-tech capabilities. Smart gadgets seem to be everywhere nowadays, popping up in our cars and even in our refrigerators. But there's one place they've been absent from - until now, that is: Our toilets The toilet that turned the most heads was Kohler's $8,000 Numi 2.0 Intelligent toilet.


Amazon reportedly developing a subscription video game streaming service

Washington Post - Technology News

Amazon is planning to use its massive cloud computing service to jump into the streaming market for video game play, according to a new report from the Information. The service, which could potentially bring top-notch titles to virtually anyone with a smartphone or streaming device, could make Amazon a major competitor in the space already in play by Microsoft and Google. While most big-budget video games require users to own a gaming console or a computer to run, Amazon's reported streaming service would live on the tech giant's cloud network, freeing customers to play elaborate, robust games even on their mobile devices, the report said. The service is slated to launch next year, the report said. The development of a Web-based gaming hub would mark a significant foray for Amazon.


The Artificial Intelligence Market Ecosystem is Expanding and Diversifying Rapidly, with More than 1,000 Companies Actively Driving Innovation in the Market

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Compared to a few years ago, the artificial intelligence (AI) market is starting to solidify around real-world applications with the pace of change being faster than it has ever been before, as startups and technology providers rush to create platforms and targeted niche solutions for solving specific enterprise problems. According to a new report from Tractica, the industry is churning and evolving quickly as merger and acquisition (M&A) activities abound, and it is homing in on areas of focus. Tractica's research has identified more than 1,000 companies that are driving innovation in the AI market, some of whom are well-known technology heavyweights but many of which are emerging solution providers that are focused on tailored AI applications to serve tactical business needs in specific industries. "The AI ecosystem is a tangled web of traditional technology providers that have adapted to shifting trends and new market entrants focused on using AI for solving problems in niche areas, in addition to well-established internet-era hyperscaler companies that are spearheading the push toward AI-first organizations," says research analyst Sherril Hanson. The key categories of companies in Tractica's mapping of the AI market ecosystem are as follows: Tractica's report, "Artificial Intelligence Market Ecosystem", provides an in-depth examination of the market ecosystem for AI.


Fortnite and the Floss: Chips with Everything podcast

The Guardian

Fortnite Battle Royale has been a runaway success, so much so that it has brought in more than $1bn (ยฃ780m), and has broken into mainstream culture in a way few video games do. The rapper 2 Milly, the actor Alfonso Ribeiro and the family of Russell Horning, otherwise known as the Backpack Kid, are suing the company for allegedly copying what they say are their dance creations, and not paying them to do so. Jordan Erica Webber talks to Dr Barbara Lauriat of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London about why we should look to the Elizabethan era to learn more about intellectual property law. She also chats to the Guardian's former Games editor Keith Stuart about what is happening with the lawsuits. The lawyer Alex Tutty then explains why it is unlikely to be an open-and-shut case.


The problem with AI in sales and why top sales people will ignore it - B2B Sales Success Training

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Hands up if you still think Artificial Intelligence or AI is a Spielberg film, and has something to do with Robotics? Until quite recently, it really didn't occur to me that AI Artificial Intelligence had anything at all to do with selling. So should we be using AI in Sales? But first I will explain why I might take this view. You see when I started selling ET had just been released on the big screen, and the Space shuttle had not long started its missions into the final frontier.


The New AI Tech Turning Heads in Video Manipulation

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A new technique using artificial intelligence to manipulate video content gives new meaning to the expression "talking head." An international team of researchers showcased the latest advancement in synthesizing facial expressions--including mouth, eyes, eyebrows, and even head position--in video at this month's 2018 SIGGRAPH, a conference on innovations in computer graphics, animation, virtual reality, and other forms of digital wizardry. The project is called Deep Video Portraits. It relies on a type of AI called generative adversarial networks (GANs) to modify a "target" actor based on the facial and head movement of a "source" actor. As the name implies, GANs pit two opposing neural networks against one another to create a realistic talking head, right down to the sneer or raised eyebrow.