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A team of computer scientists at TCS Research in India has recently created a new model that can produce highly realistic talking face animations that integrate audio recordings with a character's head motions. Then they came for those people on the network news channels and I did nothing as I was glad to see them gone
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Does it do the Indian head nod?😂😂😂
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It can even do realistic simulation of Rabbit talking! Amazing!  
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I'm deathly afraid of someone finding a pic of my ex wife and making it talk. I spent a lot of money so I don't have to see/hear her anymore.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why would you give people ideas?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The data-tracking "cookies" at the heart of concerns over online privacy were meant to shield people, rather than serve as cyber snoops, their inventor told AFP. "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley."
And by "gang aft a-gley", he of course meant "The street finds its own uses for things"
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Microsoft says that its Update Connectivity data has highlighted how much internet connectivity time a computer needs so that a Windows Update can be successfully delivered to it. Mental note: only leave computer on for 7 hours at a time
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The article doesn't mention the 'feature update pool' on the server-side that staggers the update distribution. In the old days after a feature update, as the sun would rise over New York and everyone turned on their computer the Windows update servers would be hammered as everyone got the update on-demand. This resulted in huge spikes of network traffic.
Now your device ID is added to a pool and it's completely possible to check for a feature update and get a response of "Nope! Nothing available" as the device id is not queued.
There could be an unintentional side-effect of missing updates because of the server-side update pool. Leaving the computer on gives a higher chance that when your device id is queued... you get the update.
I think Apple iOS and Google Android also do staged rollouts. It's done this way to go easy on the rural ISP and not overwhelm the smaller network infrastructure.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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In the Developer Community site that Microsoft has set up for reporting problems and requesting features it can sometimes take years for developer asks to be addressed by the dev teams, so it's a pretty big deal when one gets advanced from Under Review to On Roadmap. Make the pain go away!
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It’s hard to escape the hype of the metaverse even if you can’t experience much of it. Last year, both Microsoft and Meta (rebranded from Facebook), demoed their virtual worlds of the future. Because they don't know how to use them
Roundabout way of mentioning lyrics. You know the song.
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They saw what happened when they gave legs to Kermit.
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‘Clean’ isn’t a measure of anything useful. Code can’t be clean simply because ‘clean’ doesn’t describe anything about code. But I washed it three times!
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It requires dry cleaning.
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Oh, dang. Is that why my code is always fuzzy, and the colours run?
TTFN - Kent
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Really? An iOS developer? With just a few years of experience?
What makes Steve think he has the street cred to offer up an opinion, or that his opinion might matter to people taht have been in the trenches longer?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It’s been around for so long that I think many myths and misunderstandings about .NET from the early days persist; modern .NET is very different from the .NET Framework that started the whole journey. You mean it did not spring fully-grown and armoured from Zeus' skull?
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I am not exactly sure where those Myths circulated... first I heard of them! 
Except for the .NET speed vs Go or Rust. Which was always a nuanced comparison. .NET already win some and lost some. I guess with all the ongoing perf improvement, it's winning some more...
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7. It's pronounced Period Net.
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A team of researchers from French, Israeli, and Australian universities has explored the possibility of using people's GPUs to create unique fingerprints and use them for persistent web tracking. Or at the very least - find the users with a lot of disposable income
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According to a study announced Friday by privacy compliance solutions vendor Zendata, many Web sites were found to have woeful data protection practices in place. But the Canadian ones are doing all they can
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It’s part of the Biden administration’s plan to boost market competition Contains 25% of your daily requirements for cat videos and 5000% of arguments
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not sure if price hikes meaning the same as introduction price for first X months then normal price, but the normal price is not obvious,
but that misleading pricing, being clear would be great beyond just broadband, any monthly contract fee should have clear indications of what price is NOW and WILL BE
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Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures. I think that I shall never see a Backus-Naur Form as lovely as a b-tree
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The language itself is just the medium. The act of writing code is the "art", if you insist on calling it that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Let's Encrypt, a non-profit organization that helps people obtain free SSL/TLS certificates for websites, plans to revoke a non-trivial number of its certs on Friday because they were improperly issued. Let's Decrypt
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