Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy indicated the Trump administration is committed to "radical transparency." In a video message about the Federal Aviation Administration doing "drone-detection testing" in New Jersey, Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy indicated that the Trump administration is committed to "radical transparency," juxtaposing that approach with what he referred to as the Biden administration's "drone fiasco." The FAA noted in a post on its website last week that the testing is slated to occur "in Cape May, New Jersey, between April 14-25." "The FAA will operate several large drones and more than 100 commercial off-the-shelf drones during the two-week period. Testing will take place over the water and near the Cape May Ferry Terminal during the daytime on weekdays only. The public should not fly recreational drones near this area during the test period," the post stated.

Cameo has added a pair of timeless superstars to its stable of celebrities (a term used loosely in some cases) available for personalized video greetings. Cookie Monster and Elmo, who may or may not have fallen on hard times, will shamelessly plug their services on the six-year-old platform, offering to count to your kid's age or rattle off words that start with the same letter as your child's name -- for $25 a pop. Perhaps that relatively low price for the Sesame Street icons is because humans don't appear to record their voices: Cameo describes the characters as "powered by artificial intelligence." Cookie Monster and Elmo join a Cameo crew that also includes Kenny G ($350 per message), Danica McKellar ($150) and Billy Dee Williams ($300), among many others. Other animated characters on the platform include Thomas the Tank Engine, Grumpy Bear (from Care Bears) and JJ from CoComelon.

To say that Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote was packed would be an understatement. The company introduced the Vision Pro, its first foray into mixed reality headsets, as well as a 15-inch MacBook Air. There was also an updated Mac Studio and Mac Pro, both of which use the equally new M2 Ultra chip. As you'd expect Apple announced significant upgrades to all its software platforms. It's safe to say the Vision Pro was Apple's marquee device at WWDC.

The state of Maharashtra recently delivered personalized Diwali video messages to almost 4 crore people as an example of how technology can be leveraged to reach a bigger audience. Eknath Shinde, the state's chief minister, and Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister, sent individual Diwali greetings to more than 4 crore residents of the state. These emails consisted of 42,000 messages addressed to distinct names in total. So, among the 4 crore people who received customized video messages in Marathi from Shinde and Fadnavis this Diwali were Chitanya, Manish, Kokila, and Champabai. The state of Maharashtra recently delivered personalized Diwali video messages to almost 4 crore people as an example of how technology can be leveraged to reach a bigger audience.

They began working with an image and video database company, Indieframe, to whom they were able to deliver a so-called API. By 2019, others had already tried similar solutions, but this -- due to the video cards -- required an awful amount of computing capacity. "Ours was a typical startup solution, the code wasn't nice, but it worked." Lay people have to imagine this in such a way that the image database manager allowed the boys to solve their own images, and that chose which images had bad captions or other data but also examined the pixels in detail. According to Dominik, one of their strengths to this day is that they can transfer the results of scientific research and academia very well to market applications.

WASHINGTON D.C. [USA]: According to a recent study, a new artificial intelligence technology can accurately identify rare genetic disorders using a photograph of a patient's face. Named DeepGestalt, the AI technology outperformed clinicians in identifying a range of syndromes in three trials and could add value in personalised care, CNN reported. The study was published in the journal Nature Medicine. According to the study, eight per cent of the population has disease with key genetic components and many may have recognisable facial features. The study further adds that the technology could identify, for example, Angelman syndrome, a disorder affecting the nervous system with characteristic features such as a wide mouth with widely spaced teeth etc. Speaking about it, Yaron Gurovich, the chief technology officer at FDNA and lead researcher of the study said, "It demonstrates how one can successfully apply state of the art algorithms, such as deep learning, to a challenging field where the available data is small, unbalanced in terms of available patients per condition, and where the need to support a large amount of conditions is great."

Confirming the latest rumors, Google has formally announced a shakeup in its increasingly-splintered messaging strategy. As we'd heard earlier today, Allo is done and will go away after March 2019 (users can export their conversation history until then). It launched a little over two years ago and incubated a number of messaging features with AI, but now it's focusing on its RCS-enabled Messages app, which has already absorbed Allo features like Smart Reply, GIFs and desktop support. Duo, the video chat service that launched in 2016 alongside Allo, is still going strong and adds the ability to quickly leave a video message. Up next for the app are "more quality improvements based on machine learning that make video calls with Duo simple and reliable." Rolling out this week on #GoogleDuo, you'll be able to send a video message with a couple of taps – just in time for spreading that holiday cheer https://t.co/DtDoiCpriL

If you're looking for it, there is plenty of bad news in the tech world. From concerns about hacking and identity theft to a 2017 survey out of England that ranked Instagram as "worst for young people's mental health" compared to four other social platforms, it can be enough to make you want to become a Luddite. But the other side of the issue might be able to put a smile on your face: Tech companies and researchers are turning to AI and other software to try to solve just about any problem you can think of, from identifying fake news, to noticing if someone falls, to looking for ways to speed up the amount of time an MRI scan takes. Some companies are building software to help you change your thoughts for the better or even analyze a voice for signs of depression. For example, Woebot is a cute chatbot app designed to be an on-call emotional helper.

Since its messaging app debuted in June 2011, Line Corp. has shaken up the online communications landscape in Japan and morphed into a player in smartphone communications infrastructure. So Line is planting the seeds of success for what it thinks will be the next big thing: voice-based "AI agents." While this artificial-intelligence quest will pit the smaller Line against IT powerhouses Google, Apple and Amazon, among others, Line CEO Takeshi Idezawa likes his chances. "We are taking on a new challenge because we believe we have the assets to win the battle," Idezawa told The Japan Times in a recent interview. This is quite a change for a firm that owes its success to a prescient bet on smartphones less than a decade ago.

Messaging app Telegram rolled out video messaging, bot payments and other features on the platform, competing with other services, like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Telegram's 4.0 update allows users to send video messages to their contacts. Here's how to do it: Go on a chat and tap the mic icon to switch to camera mode. To record your message, tap and hold the icon. You can release it by swiping up and, use the stop button to end the recording (which also works with voice messages).