DefenseNews

Lawmakers push to boost Missile Defense Agency budget second year in a row

WASHINGTON — House and Senate lawmakers are again pushing to boost the Missile Defense Agency’s budget after Congress added $1.3 billion last fiscal year. The MDA’s request in fiscal 2022 focuses on the development of future capabilities including a next-generation interceptor for homeland missile defense, a hypersonic defensive capability and space-based tracking critical to detecting…
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NewsPhotography

Researchers Use Deep Learning to Add High-Quality Motion to Still Photos

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new deep learning method that essentially creates high-quality cinemagraphs automatically. The team says the method can animate any flowing material, including water, smoke, fire, and clouds. The researchers say that the method involves a neural network that needed to be trained to predict the future and animate what a state of flowing…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook’s AI reverse-engineers models used to generate deepfakes

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Some experts have expressed concern that machine learning tools could be used to create deepfakes, or media that takes a person in an existing video, photo, or audio file and replaces them with someone else’s likeness. The fear is that these fakes might be used to do things like sway opinion during an election or…
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MobileNews

WhatsApp for iOS working on new Archived Chats tab

Believe it or not, Archived Chats on WhatsApp will finally be useful. The app just submitted a new beta for its iOS version on TestFlight with new features for Archived Chats. Here’s how it’s going to work. According to WABetaInfo, with WhatsApp beta version…
MobileNews

OnePlus promises ‘faster and more stable’ software updates as the company merges w/ Oppo

After years of OnePlus and Oppo clearly sharing the same resources but, the former, confidently coming across as their own entity. Last year, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau took on a bigger role that involved overseeing portions of both OnePlus and Oppo, and now he’s merging more teams internally on the promise of better efficiency and faster software updates. In an official forum post today, Pete Lau…
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