About Us Faceware Tech develops innovative facial motion capture products for the professional animation and videogame industries. We make the tools used by your favorite videogame developers (EA, Bungie, Rockstar, 2K, WB, Sony, Capcom, and more) and VFX studios (Dneg, Atomic Fiction, Oats, CamD) to create high-end facial animation. At Siggraph 2016, we announced FTI Interactive-- a new division within the company focused on real-time content creation. The world's demands for content are even higher than ever before-- with needs in interactive, realtime content creation on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. This position will be part of the team leading the cutting edge of entertainment by innovating new techniques for the exciting up and coming industries of VR, MR, and AR.

Gartner is giving organizations insight into what they can expect next year with its annual Top 10 strategic technology trends of 2017. The predictions are designed to provide organizations with an understanding of the technologies that are emerging and having an impact to society. According to the organization, the trends can be split into three groups: intelligent, digital and mesh. "Technology will be embedded in everything in the digital business of the future. Rich digital services will be delivered to everything, and intelligence will be embedded in everything behind the scenes. We call this mesh of people, devices, content and services the intelligent digital mesh. It's enabled by digital models, business platforms and a rich intelligent set of services to support digital business. As an enterprise architecture or technology innovation leader seeking to exploit the intelligent digital mesh, you must respond to the disruptive technology trends enabling this future," according to the Gartner report.

Self-driving vehicles will play a crucial role in improving transportation safety and accelerating the world's transition to a sustainable future. Full autonomy will enable a Tesla to be substantially safer than a human driver, lower the financial cost of transportation for those who own a car and provide low-cost on-demand mobility for those who do not. We are excited to announce that, as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver. Eight surround cameras provide 360 degree visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range. Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system.

Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. "Alongside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways for the few to oppress the many. But catastrophic scenarios aside, the development of AI, which allows robots to execute almost all human tasks, directly threatens millions of jobs. "It's about how to ensure intelligent artificial systems have goals aligned with human values" and ensure computers don't evolve spontaneously in "new, unwelcome directions", Cave said.

Tesla is partnering with Panasonic to supply batteries for its upcoming Model 3. Newslook Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to his company to acquire SolarCity. SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla's fleet is going autonomous. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that its Model S, X and forthcoming Model 3 sedan will start being outfitted with "the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver." That constitutes full Level 5 autonomy, which doesn't require any driver involvement. That's the ultimate goal for a range of automakers and tech companies, including Google, Ford and Volvo, which have vowed to produce such self-driving vehicles by 2021.

The invention of artificial intelligence could be the biggest disaster in humanity's history, Professor Stephen Hawking has said, warning that if they are not properly managed, thinking machines could spell the end for civilisation. "The rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. We do not know which," the British physicist said. He was speaking at the opening of a new Cambridge centre that will seek to address the potential dangers and conundrums of AI. Professor Hawking, a prominent critic of making unchecked advances in AI, said that the technology promised to bring great benefits, such as eradicating disease and poverty, but "will also bring dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons or new ways for the few to oppress the many".

Last year I started developing a Face Recognition model. I started with static pictures and using Wolfram Mathematica. This year I found out we can do the same job using OpenCV in Python, or creating specific filters in R and applying Weierstrass and Gaussian transformation. There are lots of difficulties in recognizing faces of the same person, like: position, rotation of face, age, feeling, brightness, gamma, contrast, gamma, saturation, obstacles like hands,hair and so on. Beginning with a static picture, my idea was to identify Kristen Stewart among 4 possibilities.

The Las Vegas health department typically selects at random the restaurants it will inspect. But earlier this year, it tried something new. The agency used a software program to analyze tens of thousands of tweets in order to identify possible food poisonings. The program then connected those tweets to specific restaurants and dispatched inspectors to check for any health violations. The Las Vegas experiment resulted in citations in 15 percent of inspections compared to just 9 percent when inspections were random.

CAMBRIDGE: Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday (Oct 19) opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. Funded by a 10 million (US 12.3 million) grant from the Leverhulme Trust, the centre's express aim is to ensure AI is used to benefit humanity. Opening the new centre, Hawking said it was not possible to predict what might be achieved with AI. "Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one - industrialisation. "And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty. Every aspect of our lives will be transformed.