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God’s face and anti-face.Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The study found conservatives imagined God as a “more masculine, older, more powerful, and wealthier” Elon Musk, while liberals envisioned a “more African American and more loving” Elon Musk. Older participants also saw an older Elon Musk, and participants who self-reported as attractive saw…

Photo: AP Apple quietly rolled out a new set of rules for developers last week, adding restrictions for apps that suck up the address books of iPhone users, Bloomberg reports. Developers could, for example, sell the databases filled with your friends’ contact information to boost their bottom lines. No more. Address book requests are fairly…

Photo: AT&T On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that AT&T has the all clear to merge with Time Warner, paving the way for a media-gobbling merger frenzy. It didn’t have to be this way, but bizarre circumstances and inadequate arguments from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division have, yet again, given corporations more power. U.S.…

Photo: AP Apple’s new App Store privacy guidelines restricting apps that collect data on users’ friends—specifically, the address books of iPhone users—already seemed to be in large part a response to Facebook’s sprawling Cambridge Analytica data scandal. But the company could also be targeting Facebook’s Onavo Protect VPN service, which poses as a way to…

The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, DC.Photo: AP The trial of two men who allegedly made $20 million in an insider trading scheme involving hackers who stole corporate press releases before they were public began in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Reuters reported, with prosecutors telling jurors they had “electronic communications, trading records and testimony from…

In response to the request of the U.S. Congress after the April scandal with Cambridge Analytica, company Facebook revealed all its ways of collecting information about users of the social network. This required to make the document of 222 pages. He describes different ways of collecting data from those which we knew as that we…

Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. This time we will talk about the conference Apple, the first Russian reusable launch vehicle. Pleasant viewing! #news high technology 247 | Conference…

A time when many people will be replaced by robots in their jobs, closer. But while such decisions cause surprise and interest. The coffee shop Cafe Barista X will make two drinks per minute. The thing is that he’s not human. Automated conveyors is ready to accept and release orders in the coffee shop, San…

The new system enables “full control over the target by transferring the rigid head pose, facial expression and eye motion with a high level of photorealism.” Here, a source actor (the input) is used to manipulate a portrait video of a target actor (the output). Image: H. Kim et al., 2018 But it’s more than…