A team of researchers from Adobe Research developed a new technique for age transformation synthesis based on only one picture from the person. It can generate the lifespan pictures from any picture you sent it. Just watch how good their results are compared to the previous state-of-the-art methods. It is super realistic and every picture really does seem like the same person at different ages. This is typically called the problem of single photo age progression and regression where the goal is to predict how a person might look in the future, or how they looked in the past.

His creation of the "Ashley Too" toy is injected with the personality of Miley Cyrus, designed for fans to feel closer to her. With moving eyes, a dancing body and emotive conversations, the toy leaves us questioning how much personality our AI smart devices should have – or whether or not they should have them at all. As robots become more human in their interactions, humans are of course more likely to form a connection with them. However, this episode is merely Charlie Brooker's prediction as to what the future holds. Whilst AI smart devices such as the Amazon Alexa and Google Home assistant are entering our homes, they're not yet necessarily equipped with the ability to detect emotion or respond to questions in an emotive manner. So, does this mean that AI will be limited in its success by its lack of emotional intelligence (EI)?

Researchers might be one step closer to keeping you looking younger for longer thanks to a new study which looks at the gene expression of each individual brain cell during the aging process. Using a fruit fly as the first test subject, the research, which was lead by a scientist called Professor Stein Aerts from the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, saw the team create a "cell atlas" of the brain, which provided insights into the workings of the brain as it ages. The study was published in the scientific journal Cell, and has since been touted as an important first step in the development of techniques that can help us gain a better understanding of human disease development. The scientists used a fruit fly because the insect's brain consists of some 100,000 different cells, and while that makes it much smaller than that of a person's, it contains hundreds of different types of neurons and other cells forming a complex network, much like the human brain. Kristofer Davie, one of the many researchers involved in the effort, explained that it was no easy task mapping the cells on such a small organism as it required zooming in on each and every individual cell.

Each year, over a million missing persons cases are reported in the US and UK, leaving families desperately searching for their loved ones. In the hope of boosting this search, researchers have developed a new and more accurate method of ageing facial images. They have tested their new software on an image of Ben Needham, who went missing when he was a toddler in 1991 on the Greek island of Kos. The resulting images are vastly different to the computer generated images of Ben as an adult produced by current face-ageing current software. This, they say, suggests that existing technology isn't up to the task.

Gruesome videos of terror-driven killings have grown increasingly common over the years, and, cloaked by a scarf or a hood, the perpetrators can be difficult to identify. Researchers in Jordan have now developed a way to recognize terrorists using a small part of their hands, measuring the characteristics of their fingers when they make the commonly displayed'V' sign. The team trained an AI to identify different'V' signs, using sizes of the fingers and the different shapes and angles created by them to differentiate between people. Gruesome videos of terror-driven killings have grown increasingly common over the years, and, cloaked by a scarf or a hood, the perpetrators can be difficult to identify. Researchers in Jordan have now developed a way to recognize terrorists when they make the commonly displayed'V' sign Researchers say masked suspects could be identified using the shapes of their hands in the'V' sign.

Like a fine wine, some parts of the human brain can take decades to mature and reach their peak, researchers have found. They say rather than peaking in our twenties, in fact some areas do not reach their full potential until we grow old. In fact, the ability to evaluate other people's emotional states, the peak occurred much later, in the 40s or 50s. The ability to evaluate other people's emotional states does not peak until we are in our 40s or 50s, researchers said. 'At any given age, you're getting better at some things, you're getting worse at some other things, and you're at a plateau at some other things,' said Joshua Hartshorne of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the paper's authors.

Scientists have long known that our ability to think quickly and recall information, also known as fluid intelligence, peaks around age 20 and then begins a slow decline. However, more recent findings, including a new study from neuroscientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), suggest that the real picture is much more complex. The study, which appears in the journal Psychological Science, finds that different components of fluid intelligence peak at different ages, some as late as age 40. "At any given age, you're getting better at some things, you're getting worse at some other things, and you're at a plateau at some other things. There's probably not one age at which you're peak on most things, much less all of them," says Joshua Hartshorne, a postdoc in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the paper's authors.