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Wyze Lock adds long-awaited support for Google Assistant w/ latest software update

Smart locks are a great way to make your home’s security a bit more convenient, but many require paying an arm and a leg for the privilege. In the company’s usual fashion, the Wyze Lock bucks that trend and offers much more affordable hardware, and now, it finally supports Google Assistant. Android Police notes that the latest software update for the Wyze Lock brings support for Google…
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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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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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