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How technology and art helped bring the dead's faces to life

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The primary use of facial reconstruction in forensics is to identify human remains and reunite them with their relatives for burial or memorialization. The method has a strong hold over our minds. Typically, these images are created after other identifying techniques have failed. Typically, it's an extremely risky final resort. This is possibly why it might seem miraculous when forensic portrayals, despite their inherent technological limitations, result in recognition, adding a crucial and frequently long-needed piece to an investigation's puzzle. When facial reconstruction is used in archaeological study, its cultural impact is most apparent. The ability to depict historical figures as persons rather than as examples helps viewers visualise them. The facial picture develops into a potent and sophisticated medium, promoting links between historical occurrences and individual life paths and reinstating a certain level of personhood. The development of imaging techno...

How the metaverse might alter the function and character of cities

Apple and Microsoft are two businesses that believe at least some of tomorrow's world will take place in the metaverse. In order to achieve this, Microsoft just paid US$68.7 billion to acquire the industry titan Activision Blizzard. We believe it is time to think about how this may ultimately play out as more and more of our daily activities move online. If city dwellers of the future prefer the metaverse to physical stores and other urban amenities, what will this mean for cities and what functions will cities ultimately serve? We explore this issue and consider how the metaverse can significantly alter our interactions with urban environments as professors in the departments of urban environment and digital culture. Although this scenario may seem extremely dismal, let's take this chance to speculate about how the cities of the future might appear. Reality and science fiction coexist The term metaverse does not come from the fields of science and technology, but rather from s...

Top 5 New Technology Trends in 2022

With advances in machine learning and natural language processing, artificial intelligence will be more common in 2022. Using this technique, artificial intelligence will be able to comprehend us better and carry out more difficult tasks. According to predictions, 5G will change how we live and work in the future. How does this affect you? It entails keeping up with the newest technological trends and emerging technologies. Additionally, it entails keeping an eye on the future to determine the talents you'll need to possess in order to find a stable work tomorrow and even figure out how to get there. The majority of the world's IT workforce is kicking back and working from home as everyone bends to the global pandemic. Here are the top 18 emerging technology trends you should keep an eye out for in 2022 if you want to maximise your time spent at home and perhaps even land one of the new jobs that will be generated by them. These trends include: The Top New Technology Trends for...

According to a report, Facebook violated the rights of Palestinian users.

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The rights of Palestinian users to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, political engagement, and non-discrimination were breached by Facebook and its parent company Meta during the Gaza war last year. According to a research commissioned by the social media firm, Facebook and its parent company Meta's actions during the 2014 Gaza War breached the rights of Palestinian users to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, political engagement, and non-discrimination. In relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the report released on Thursday by independent consulting firm Business for Social Responsibility supported long-standing complaints about Meta's policies and their inconsistent application: It discovered that the business overly enforced regulations for content in Arabic and underenforced standards for content in Hebrew. However, it did not uncover any evidence of deliberate bias at Meta, either on the part of the business as a whole or specific workers. There...

Coronavirus could be detected by a smart face mask on other people's breath.

Early experiments show that a prototype N95 face mask with a sensor integrated into the breath valve is very sensitive to virus proteins. After a 10-minute interaction with a person who is afflicted, a face mask with an integrated virus sensor might find minute levels of the coronavirus. When a coronavirus is discovered, the mask will transmit a signal to the user's smartphone, allowing them to decide whether to leave an area where the virus is present or remove their mask if they feel safe. However, the outcomes to yet are based on preliminary research. According to Yin Fang of Tongji University in China, the mask hasn't yet been tested against complete viruses; just the coronavirus's surface proteins have been used in tests. A snug-fitting N95-style face mask has been created by Fang's team that can detect the outer proteins of three viruses: the covid-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus and the H5N1 and H1N1 flu strains. Aptamers, which are brief strands of DNA or RNA that c...