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Why ISIS is Trying Hard to Hack America’s Energy Grid – and Failing Terribly

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>According to the latest revelations made by the American law enforcement agencies, ISIS terrorists are failing hard at hacking the America energy grid. They are launching repetitive failed attacks on the network with their poor hacking skills.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Islamic State, or the ISIS, is trying hard to hack the American electrical power companies’ networks, according to the U.S. law enforcement officials. They have revealed these regular hack attempts on Wednesday at the American energy firms’ conference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“ISIL is beginning to perpetrate cyber attacks”, said Caitlin Durkovich, assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at the Department of Homeland Security during the process of outlining the national security concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ISIS terrorists are trying hard to shut down the US towns and businesses by hacking the electrical grids. The reason behind their repetitive failure lies in their poor hacking skills. But, the FBI warns that ISIS can easily overcome this issue by buying the tools needed to perform the attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Strong intent. Thankfully, low capability,” said John Riggi, a section chief at the FBI’s cyber division. “But the concern is that they’ll buy that capability.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, FBI hasn’t released any kind of red alert as even if the ISIS terrorists manage to crack the codes and infiltrate the power grids, they would be just able to effects a city block or small town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Currently, the American power grid is a chaotic patchwork of grids, each with different machines and software. Surprisingly, this jumbled network works to the nation’s advantage, according to company executives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, for now, the FBI and other agencies are watching over the American cyberspace more carefully as a more powerful attack could be just around the corner to cause a widespread damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“We’ve had pretty good success actually,” Riggi said. “Since the FBI is an intelligence agency, we rely on the help of CIA and NSA. We compare information with the NSA.”</span></div>
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Why ISIS is Trying Hard to Hack America’s Energy Grid – and Failing Terribly

SP's: According to the latest revelations made by the American law enforcement agencies, ISIS terrorists are failing hard at hackin...

Amazon Sues 1,114 Fake Product Reviewers on Fiverr

Shivam Patsariya 0 WebNdSocial 12:14 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Amazon has filed a lawsuit against 1,114 fake product reviewers using the Fiverr gig platform. This is an attempt by the online retailer to alleviate the fake review cases that tarnish their image. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In an attempt to curb the mischief of thousands of fake product reviewers, Amazon has filed a lawsuit against 1,114 people who gave sham reviews about one of the largest online retailer on Fiverr. Amazon is now getting strict on these false experts who would write anything for a price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a similar incident in April this year, Amazon sued a few product-review website operators for spreading the false scam against the company. In the Fiverr case, Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the people through their usernames and is pursuing Fiverr for their actual account information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Amazon and many other retailers including app stores have been continuously struggling against the false reviews at the gig sites and any attempt to curtail such had been futile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fiverr is an inexpensive online marketplace where small tasks and services like editing, translation and reviews are offered by users for just $5. Since Fiverr has co-operated with Amazon on similar cases in the past, they have not been targeted in te lawsuit, but warned against its lenient and unregulated admissive policies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is a by far the biggest attempt by any company to nab down the fake-review offenders. However, Fiverr is not the only gig website that offer such platforms and the problem for the big companies is only escalating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Just a few negative reviews are enough to tarnish a brand’s image in the customer’s eyes, so the offense of fake reviews is now being taken seriously by all the companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What do you think about the issue? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Amazon Sues 1,114 Fake Product Reviewers on Fiverr

SP's: Amazon has filed a lawsuit against 1,114 fake product reviewers using the Fiverr gig platform. This is an attempt by the onli...

Happy 30th Birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System. Thanks for Mario and Everything Else

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines 12:12 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>October 18th, 2015 marks the 30th birthday of the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES was known as Family Computer (Famicom) during its 1983 rollout in Japan, where it was a huge success. Two years later it came to the USA and created history.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) has turned 30 as it was launched in North America on October 18th, 1985. Okay, I’m feeling very old right now but let’s get over that and talk about NES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Long back, 30 years ago, NES was launched as a limited USA release with classic Nintendo games including all-time chart-topping NES video game Super Mario Bros, along with Excitebike, Duck Hunt, Pinball, Kung Fu and Golf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For many of us, the most memorable game is Super Mario Bros. The game has sold over 40 million units and this game just made you an addict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Nintendo Entertainment System was known as Family Computer (Famicom) during its 1983 rollout in Japan. After its huge success, two years later, it was launched in the USA as NES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take a look at the 1986 commercial for the NES Deluxe Set:</span></div>
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Happy 30th Birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System. Thanks for Mario and Everything Else

SP's: October 18th, 2015 marks the 30th birthday of the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES was known as Family Compute...

A Writer Just Live Streamed His Entire Novel Writing On a Website

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, Internet, WebNdSocial 10:33 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Novelist Joshua Cohen experimented his next writing PCKWCK as a live stream writing project. Few days ago, he allowed you to live stream the writing of his new novel “PCKWCK”, an adaptation of “The Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What if you get a chance to watch live the efforts made by novelists like R. R. Martin and J. K. Rowling. Their mistakes, typos, rewrites all in real time. No, I’m not saying that I’ll arrange a meeting for you when they’ll be busy finishing their next writing, but yes, you can view some other novelists completing their work in real time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Few days ago, an experiment by novelist Joshua Cohen, allowed you to live stream the writing of his new novel “<a href="http://www.pckwck.com/" target="_blank">PCKWCK</a>”, an adaptation of “The Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens. The experiment ended on Friday, this week, and he got a lot of hearts on his article.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The interface of the website looked like a Google Docs web page, and the most compelling part was, users could comment and criticize him if they didn’t like his writing or had a suggestion for him, all anonymously in the chat section (see our comment in the screenshot :P).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Seriously, expressing your thoughts in front of so many people is a daring task, at least for me as a writer, and Cohen has done a commendable job. It is difficult to share your personal space with other people, like one has opened up his mind and his thoughts are on an exhibition for so many visitors. It is fascinating, or weird – or I don’t have words to describe my feelings if I was to perform an experiment like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is an astonishing experience to write and receive the reader’s feedback right there. It’s like you are about to jump out of a plane, and you do not know whether your parachute will work or not, the thrill and fear before the jump only makes it mesmerizing. It will be nice to see if other writers join Cohen’s experiment.</span></div>
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A Writer Just Live Streamed His Entire Novel Writing On a Website

SP's: Novelist Joshua Cohen experimented his next writing PCKWCK as a live stream writing project. Few days ago, he allowed you to ...

Steve Jobs Was a Negative Person, Says Steve Wozniak

Shivam Patsariya 0 apple 10:30 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>“He might also be remembered for his negative personality”, says Steve Wozniak in the video “Woz On Jobs”. The clip includes snippets from the movie and featuring Steve Wozniak.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Steve Jobs, a man who was always praised for what he made out of a company which rules on the list of world’s most valuable companies. People stand for days outside the apple stores just to be the first buyers of the magnificent iPhone. They don’t know why they like it, but they just do, and it is the “One last thing” Steve wanted from his customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Apart from Jobs, there is another unsung hero who has contributed to the success of Apple. Steve Wozniak, always been away from the limelight, although Apple wasn’t possible without his engineering skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Woz still remembers those before Apple days with Jobs, calls him “Steve Jobs Zero”, for what he was a completely different person. He recollects memories of all those pranks, their initial efforts for making Apple into existence and much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"He might also be remembered for his negative personality. I think that’s going to go with his legacy forever. But he led the world in the future and everybody else then would follow once they saw it."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Woz said in the video, and he has been quite busy regarding the promotion of the new flick on Jobs. The movie focuses on what most of us don’t know or I must say don’t want to know, the dark side of Steve Jobs, what was he as a person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jobs wasn’t well-versed with engineering skills but he had the audacity to do things without a second thought. What we call, he had the ability to package his product in such a way that it looked so compelling, people couldn’t wait to get their hands-on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although, numerous movies have been done on Jobs, but this one change the way we admire him as a person. Steve Jobs, the movie is all set for a worldwide release on October 23, 2015, with Michael Fassbender as Jobs and Seth Rogen as Woz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch the movie featurette “Woz On Jobs”:</span></div>
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Steve Jobs Was a Negative Person, Says Steve Wozniak

SP's: “He might also be remembered for his negative personality”, says Steve Wozniak in the video “Woz On Jobs”. The clip includes ...

Feeling Angry? Come and Break All The Gadgets in This “Rage Room”

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, Creative, Hack, News, Tricks 10:28 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>A Polish entrepreneur Zdzisław Hoffmann has created a Rage Room where people can break anything to release stress. Just come here, pay 35 euros and you are given a weapon of your choice to break anything in the room for the next 30 minutes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rage room – admit it, you need this in your life more than anything. The ever increasing pressure of work, and its imbalance with your personal life, demands a secret place where you can vent all the anger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Along the similar lines, in the Lodz town of Poland, a new “Rage Room” has opened, where you can pay to break household gadgets and items like computer monitors, TV sets, glass cups and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All you have to do is pay 35 euros- and you can spend half an hour in the rage room with your choice of weapon. What do you like- Baseball bat? Crow bar? – worry not, they’ve got it all covered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">All the items that you’ll be breaking here are obtained from the free online recycling websites. Entrepreneur Zdzisław Hoffmann is the owner of this rage room. “It is perfect for everyone. I would say it is better for calm people who just want to come here, get wild and destroy something, what is usually forbidden,” he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hoffmann tells that he came across this business idea by accident and he was always fascinated how people can throw their TV out of the window from 11th floor after a lost soccer match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside the room, customers need to wear a helmet and they are all set to smash TV sets, mirrors, glass and whatnot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Feeling angry? Take a flight to Poland right away.</span></div>
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Feeling Angry? Come and Break All The Gadgets in This “Rage Room”

SP's: A Polish entrepreneur Zdzisław Hoffmann has created a Rage Room where people can break anything to release stress. Just come ...

Live Your Time Travel Dream With Ford’s “Back to the Future” Flux Capacitor

Shivam Patsariya 0 Automobile, Business, cars, Science, Security 11:23 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>As a part of the “Back to the Future” day celebrations, Ford has offered you a chance to add the iconic flux capacitor to your cars. Doc’s flux capacitor is what made the time travel possible in the movies and Ford’s 1.21 gigaWatts device is going to cost you $1.2 million.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The year 2015 marks 30th year of the release of the much beloved retro-tech movie trilogy “Back to the Future”. The movie has been receiving tons of love since then and inspiring many gadgets including Hoverboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Back to the Future movie was based on the concept of time travel that was made possible with Doc’s flux capacitor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Preparing for the Back to the Future fiesta between Oct. 21 and 26, automobile company Ford has decided to put a flux capacitor right in your car. For those who don’t know, these are the same days in which Doc and Marty McFly time-travelled in the movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Doc’s flux capacitor is what made the time travel possible and Ford’s device is going to cost you $1.2 million. In the movies, flux capacitor converted the classic Delorean into a flying time machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Just like the movies, the flux capacitor is powered by 1.21 gigaWatts of energy. No surprises here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you’ll visit the page for either the 2016 Ford <a href="http://www.ford.com/cars/fiesta/" target="_blank">Fiesta </a>or 2016 Ford <a href="http://www.ford.com/cars/focus/" target="_blank">Focus </a>between between Oct. 21 and 26 for “Back to the Future Day,” you’ll be able to spec the cars with this flux capacitor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the promotional video on YouTube, Ford warns that the use of the flux capacitor is “for recreational use only”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Take a look at the video below and be prepared for the Back to the Future day celebrations:</span></div>
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Live Your Time Travel Dream With Ford’s “Back to the Future” Flux Capacitor

SP's: As a part of the “Back to the Future” day celebrations, Ford has offered you a chance to add the iconic flux capacitor to ...

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is Now Twitter’s 3rd Biggest Individual Shareholder

Shivam Patsariya 0 Internet, Microsoft 11:20 AM

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is Now Twitter’s 3rd Biggest Individual Shareholder

SP's: In a tweet on Friday, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that now he owns 4% Twitter shares. This unexpected announ...

This Software Puts Your Facial Expressions on Someone Else’s Face – In Real-time

Shivam Patsariya 0 Internet, Security, Software, tech, Tricks 11:18 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The developers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have published an online video and a research paper named “Facial reenactment”. This technology uses a software that is used to put all your gestures in real time, onto someone else’s face.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ever irritated your best friends by mimicking their facial expressions and experienced an immense amount of pleasure? Along the similar lines, the genius minds from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have developed a software that puts your expressions on someone else’s face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research paper named “Facial reenactment” describes a software that is used to put all your gestures in real time onto someone else’s face. In the video ahead, it’s researchers show what’s called “Real-time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With this technology, you can plaster someone else’s facial features on your face. “To achieve this, we accurately capture the facial performances of the source and target subjects in real-time using a commodity RGB-D sensor,” the paper states. live-facial-expression-copy-1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the video, you can see the actor on the right side pulling some exaggerated facial expressions like frowning, raised eyebrows and crazy smiles. These gestures are then mapped in real time onto the face of the person sitting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For the transfer of expressions, researchers calculate the difference between the target and source’s expressions and the software modifies the target’s expressions. This is done by tracking the geometry, reflectance and texture of both faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The software layers the elements on target’s face and then enhances it using various artificially animated CGI renders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch this amazing video animation below and share your views in the comments below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Source: Stanford</span></div>
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This Software Puts Your Facial Expressions on Someone Else’s Face – In Real-time

SP's: The developers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford Unive...