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Scientists Can Now Study Animal Motion Without Tiny Motion Capture Suits
Watch the behind-the-scenes footage of any effects-laden blockbuster film and you’ll see actors running around in checkered body suits. Capturing the motions of a human performer is the most lifelike way to bring a digital character to life, but scientists at Stanford have come up with a less intrusive way to capture and study the…
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Someone Finally Hijacked Deep Learning Tech To Create More Than Nightmares
It’s been almost two years since Google liquefied our brains with its Deep Dream neural network and the nightmare-inducing images the technology created. But now, a team from the University of California, Berkeley is sort of doing the opposite — emphasis on “sort of”.
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Rapping Robots Prove At Least One Job Is Safe From The Coming Android Apocalypse
Every day there’s a new robot with improved capabilities that promises to eventually take over yet another job. But if you’re heading off to university soon, and want to ensure you’ve selected a career path that’s safe from robo-replacement, this agonisingly awkward video seems to confirm that rapping is not something robots will be good…
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Scientists Made The Perfect Underwater Glue By Stealing An Idea From Shellfish
Even the strongest artificial glues are completely useless when you try to apply them underwater, but somehow shellfish are able to hold fast to rocks to deter predators from trying to carry them away. Clearly, nature has already figured out how to make glues that work underwater, and now researchers may have discovered the secret.