... While the capabilities of AI technology have spearheaded innovation, its widespread use has also led to the development of dangerous tech such as deepfakes-as-a-service. ...
AI and Large Language Model (LLM) generative language applications can be used to create more sophisticated and evasive fraud that is difficult to detect and remove. ...
The AI threat landscape is constantly evolving and teams need to be equipped with technology that can quickly and easily adjust and implement new techniques.
Some opportunities in using AI with identity verification technology include:
Examining key device attributes
Using counter-AI to identify manipulation: To avoid being defrauded and protect important data, counter-AI can identify the manipulation of incoming images.
Treating the ‘absence of data’ as a risk factor in certain circumstances
Actively looking for patterns across multiple sessions and customers
These layered defenses provided by both AI and identity verification technology, investigate the person, their asserted identity document, network and device, minimizing the risk of manipulation as a result of deepfakes and ensuring only trusted, genuine people gain access to your services.
AI and identity verification need to continue to work together. ...
Companies need to widen their defense landscape, and cannot be afraid to invest in tech, even if it adds a bit of friction. ...
Starship Technologies, which claims to be the world’s leading provider of autonomous delivery services, says it is now offering its service to 50 college campuses across the US.
This includes several new schools launching services, including Wichita State University, Boise State University and The University of New Orleans. ...
The character voices include Sunshine (for a dose of positivity), Harry (British accent for a proper butler experience) and Asher (keeping it cool and casual).
Students can alternatively continue the popular option of having the robot play a song from a pre-selected list. All options are available in the app (iOS and Android) and can be selected when placing an order. ...
Snap Inc (SNAP.N) is shutting its division focused on making augmented reality (AR) services for businesses within months of its launch, as the ad-dependent social media company struggles in a tough economy. ...
CEO Spiegel said rising adoption of generative artificial intelligence made it hard for Snap to differentiate its offering that allowed customers to use its AR tech on their sites as companies created their own experiences. ...
... Swiss startup CREAL - an innovator in light field micro-display technology - today announced commercial availability by early 2024 of its patent-protected AR display technology stack, which enables OEM/ODMs to develop AR glasses that uniquely provide correct depth perception to users. ...
Unlike current 3D displays which present two flat-screen images each to one eye, light field recreates the light rays as they exist in the real world, creating an incredibly realistic image with true depth and top quality.CREAL’s light field technology is used with a combiner (no waveguides needed), a simple-to-apply thin holographic film laminated onto a standard or prescription lens. ...
CREAL’s light field display technology also removes the main sources of eye-strain, eye-fatigue, and nausea that are so commonly experienced with AR and VR headsets today.Several leading AR glasses and headset ODM’s are currently evaluating CREAL technology for their next-generation designs, expected to become commercially available in 2024. ...
... starting 29 September, he is back in Las Vegas to help inaugurate the Sphere ...
... The latest Elvis extravaganza is the work of London-based artist Marco Brambilla: a four-minute, hyper-detailed, image-dense video starring the King in his different incarnations—from young army officer to swaggering movie star to bloated has-been—as well as the dream-city of Vegas itself, which somewhat similarly evolves from a small desert oasis into the neon epicenter of debacle-spectacle. In keeping with its themes of celebrity-image proliferation and saturation, King Size (2023) is Brambilla’s biggest video collage yet, using 1,000 looped video clips from different movies, including all 33 Elvis films. ...
Brambilla turned to AI instead of human researchers or video editors this time because, he says, he was on deadline to complete this project quickly, within four months. “What I found is that it was very good at sketching, making conceptual sketches and hybrid images. It often comes up with things that are very magical,” he says. ...
... If we don’t have any protections from the A.I. data overgrazers, I worry that it will feel pointless to even try to create in public. And that would be a real tragedy.
In another giant step toward reimagining higher education, Rowan University is collaborating with Dreamscape Learn and Arizona State University to launch a new approach to learning using virtual reality (VR)-enabled experiences that combine “education through exploration” pedagogy and cinematic storytelling techniques to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
Rowan leads the first group of universities in the nation to license the new technology and curriculum developed by Dreamscape Learn, in collaboration with ASU, recognized as the No. 1 innovator in higher education by U.S. News & World Report. ...
Since 2022, more than 12,000 students at ASU have completed introductory biology courses incorporating Dreamscape Learn’s “Immersive Biology in the Alien Zoo” lab curriculum. ...
According to a study conducted by ASU, students who conducted virtual field research in the Alien Zoo labs were nearly twice as likely to earn an “A” lab grade when compared with their peers in traditional “wet labs.” The findings held true across all demographics, except for honors students whose scores remained the same for either course. ...
“This isn’t just about the technology — for every 15 minutes of VR, the students participate in three hours of work outside of VR. We’ve found through our research and development at ASU, that by combining highly cinematic storytelling with innovative curriculum and technology, we can create classroom experiences that motivate students to do the work necessary to master a subject," said Dreamscape Learn CEO Josh Reibel. ...
Once the Dreamscape Learn technology has been launched, Rowan will work to build new, interdisciplinary immersive courses across all of its colleges and schools. Where appropriate, Rowan anticipates licensing their original immersive courseware to other institutions using the Dreamscape Learn platform.
...Huawei says NearLink uses less than half the power of Bluetooth, is six times faster, has 1/30th the latency or the time it takes for data to travel from one point to another, and supports 10 times the number of devices in a network. ...
China’s technological rise is intricately tied to its global ambitions, leveraging advancements to expand its geopolitical influence. One example is Beidou, a substitute for the U.S.’s satellite-based Global Positioning System. China has also set a domestic standard for a new way of designing chips, while global chip giants also formed a coalition to create them. ...
A nurse-moderated virtual reality program for older adults with kidney disease, and an algorithm project for advanced care planning, have received a funding boost as part of an end-of-life grant initiative. ...
“The quality of care delivered at the end of life is a bellwether for our society,” Hill Foundation Executive Director Ahrin Mishan said in a statement. “We believe that nurse-designed innovations can help to ensure that all people with serious illness have access to the compassionate, equitable and trustworthy care they deserve.” ...
... Inspiration struck while Rivera was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a regular at Arriviste Coffee Roasters cafe in Pittsburgh. The used coffee grounds were composted by a local group until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, when the owner was forced to start throwing the grounds out. Rivera remembered the owner's dilemma when he became a postdoc at University of Colorado Boulder and was casting about for sustainable alternatives for 3D printing. Coffee grounds seemed like a viable option. "When you do the extraction for brewing a drink [of coffee] you're only drinking about 20 percent of what's in that bean," said Rivera. "The spent coffee grounds are the other 80 percent of the material that's there."
Arriviste supplied Rivera with spent coffee grounds from making espresso-based drinks like lattes and cappuccinos. The grounds were dried in direct sunlight over two days rather than drying them in an oven to reduce energy consumption for the process. The dried grounds were sifted with a standard kitchen strainer to remove large clumps and then mixed with xanthan gum and carboxymethyl cellulose powders, which serve a similar purpose to binders, stabilizers, and thickeners. Finally, that mixture was combined with water (proportional by mass), and the resulting paste was loaded into 60 mL syringes for use in a modified consumer-grade 3D printer. (Rivera's adapter design is open-sourced.) No heat is required during the printing process.
The finished 3D-printed objects are as strong as unreinforced concrete, per Rivera. His team has made small planters to grow seedlings, which can be transferred to a garden—biodegradable planter and all—when the resulting plants are ready. They've made decorative pendants and espresso cups out of this new material. And they created 3D-printed prototype user interfaces for human-computer interactions that changed shape due to shrinkage as they dried—a single-layer square morphing into a saddle shape, for example, or a rectangular rod that bent upwards as it dried.
