The sky itself has cracked in Fortnite: Battle Royale, and Epic Games is teasing a dramatic map overhaul that looks like it's going to incorporate elements of Japanese, Viking and American Western culture. The developer has been working hard to make the start of season 5 as cataclysmic as possible, beginning with a rocket launch a little while ago and continuing on through a series of rifts that have been both eating parts of the map and spitting out mysterious objects. There's even an ARG that's involved llamas scattered throughout the world and a giant Durr Burger head plopped in the middle of the California Desert. It all comes to a head with the start of Season 5, but you may be wondering when, exactly, that is. Here's what time Season 5 will start in Fortnite: Battle Royale.

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There is a new and apparently better way to fix grainy photos, and it uses AI. Artificial Intelligence, one must say, coupled with lots of computing power, but that's growing day after day. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning will never cease to surprise us, apparently. Each new day, there's some new announcement, covering different fields: AI can render 3D hair in real time, smell illnesses in human breath, assess infrastructure quality in Africa or help transform audio into music playing avatars. Now it can also help photographers get rid of noise in their photos.

Honor, a leading smartphone e-brand under the Huawei Group signed up to work with Central Saint Martins (CSM) students to explore the concept of colour and its emotional significance within the history of design, as well as the relationship between art, design and technological innovation. Collaborating to find beauty in Artificial Intelligence (AI), selected CSM students are to be awarded the Honor Art prize, which is an award given for a piece of final degree work that celebrates the innovative use of colour and technology in artistic practice. This year, the inaugural prize was awarded to MA Fine Art student Marco Pantaleoni for his series of works in 3D scanning, photography and painting. Receiving his award, Marco said: "I feel honoured to be awarded this prize. Technology is an essential part of my practice, so to be recognised by a technology brand like Honor, not only reinforces some of the concepts behind my work, it also really resonates with the way I create."

NVIDIA researchers are back with yet another digital image technology that pushes the limits of traditional image manipulation. Unlike Adobe's recently disclosed project, which involved a neural network trained to spot digitally altered images, NVIDIA's newest creation can scrub digital sensor noise and watermarks from digital images. Thanks to the artificial intelligence powering it, the feature is far more effective than existing denoising tools. Digital camera sensor noise, though not as severe as it once was, is still common from consumer-tier cameras, particularly smartphone cameras in low-light conditions. This is due to the small sensor size used in these cameras, making post-processing necessary to increase image quality.

What if we delegated so much to autonomous AI and intelligent machines that They passed a law that forbids humans to carry out a number of professions? We conceive the plot of a new episode of Black Mirror to reflect on what might await us and how we can deal with such a future.

When we think of cutting-edge technology, it's usually in a positive context. New technologies are exciting, futuristic and belong in Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. So why has artificial intelligence (AI) gained such a bad reputation? Jaywing Intelligence recently conducted research into Twitter conversations about AI - exploring whether the negative media content around'robots stealing our jobs' was fake news. It found that data scientists are principally concerned with the development and techniques of AI and, while aware there will be an impact on jobs, they aren't displaying significant concern.

On the Internet, every day is April Fool's day. "Citizens need to become aware that the internet is a different media environment than TV and newspapers. There are no editors and no gatekeepers," the report's author, Žiga Turk, writes. After having tried other approaches, like partnering with fact-checking organizations, big tech companies like Facebook and Google seem to be now particularly keen on solving the fake news issue by implementing technical solutions, such as scoring web pages or using artificial intelligence to detect them. Other efforts are more focused on improving the media literacy of users as a prerequisite to fight misinformation.

But Nvidia could make protecting photos online much harder with a new advancement in artificial intelligence that can automatically remove artifacts from a photograph, including text and watermarks, no matter how obtrusive they may be. In previous advancements in automated image editing and manipulation, an AI powered by a deep learning neural network is trained on thousands of before and after example photos so that it knows what the desired output should look like. But this time, researchers at Nvidia, MIT, and Aalto University in Finland, managed to train an AI to remove noise, grain, and other visual artifacts by studying two different versions of a photo that both feature the visual defects. Fifty-thousand samples later, the AI can clean up photos better than a professional photo restorer. Practical applications for the AI include cleaning up long exposure photos of the night sky taken by telescopes, as cameras used for astrophotography often generate noise that can be mistaken for stars.