Realtime face cloning technology? It’s freaky.

In the future, you may be walking down the street and not know what’s real and what’s not. You see beautiful people that all look like celebrities. But then the light catches his face just right, and you realize it’s just a projection. It’s 3D make up. It’s a digital face tattoo. It’s Cirque de Soleil 2.0. It’s scary, but it’s so cool. ArtistArturo Castromade this amazingly, freakish video titled “Faces....

2 min · 301 words · Martin Aguilar

Rebecca Black’s Friday will now cost you $2.99 on YouTube [Updated]

Update: It appears the rightsholders have removed the rental option and the video plays fully. I can’t imagine any reason why you’d actually want to watch Rebecca Black’s video for Friday, but let’s just imagine that we’re living in an alternate universe where masochism is the accepted policy for survival. In that world, you’dhead to YouTube, look up the video and start your ear-bleeding chant of trying to decide which seat you could take, only to be greeted by…a message telling you to rent the video?...

2 min · 234 words · Peter Alexander

Recap: Who’s responsible if a self-driving car has an accident?

Recap: Who’s responsible if a self-driving car has an accident? Trust and accountability In a recent study published inHumanities and Social Science Communications, the authors tacklethe issue of over-trusting drivers and the resulting system misuse from a legal viewpoint. They look at what the manufacturers of self-driving cars should legally do to ensure that drivers understand how to use the vehicles appropriately. One solution suggested in the study involves requiring buyers to sign end-user license agreements (EULAs), similar to the terms and conditions that require agreement when using new computer or software products....

3 min · 450 words · Veronica Anthony

Recipefy: The social network that lets foodies find and share recipes

Yumaliciousis all about showing off photos of your culinary creations.Foodspottingis all about sharing photos of dishes you’ve enjoyed, when out and about. AndRecipefyis a new social network for cooks which is less about the pictures and more about the recipes themselves. Recipefy can be used to store your own personal recipes, or collect recipes that you’ve found online and want to put them all in one place. If you’re using it for the latter, you will have to take the time to type, or copy and paste, all of the details yourself....

3 min · 586 words · David Mckenzie

Red Bull’s new augmented reality racing app also boosts sales

This campaign is well worth sharing because it brings together a great mix of technology and gaming with the ultimate aim of increasing sales for Red Bull. As you’ll see from the two videos below you have to scan a minimum of 12 cans into the app, which then builds your own track based on the exact shape that you have designed. The technology here is very impressive but what I find more impressive from a marketing perspective is that even though the app is free, you need buy physical cans of Red Bull which means that it actually helps increase sales....

2 min · 358 words · George Rodriguez
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