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When a character in a movie works, when it truly works, their little habits and traits pass on to the viewers. The way they talk, or stand, or even communicate- burn in our memory like an afterthought. Such is the case with Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things, played by Emma Stone with tremendous ferocity and feeling. She is an experiment: a woman with the brain of her own unborn child, that was cut off from her body after she tried to kill herself. In some ways she is her own mother and daughter, but also,…

Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and-coming blind musicians, and they’ll likely draw a blank. That’s no accident, according to Athan Billias, president of the MIDI Association, the nonprofit organization in charge of the MIDI standard. “Music production is much more visually oriented,” than it used to be just a few decades ago, Billias says, which has made things a lot…

Screenshot by David Grober/ZDNETEven before the generative AI boom, the Google Lookout app leveraged AI to assist the visually impaired and blind community explore their surroundings using their phone cameras. Launched in March 2019, the app recently added a handy AI-powered feature -- Image Q+A. Also: What is Google Bard? Here's everything you need to knowThe Image Q+A feature allows users to ask questions about an image by uploading the photo and using their voice or entering text. The user will then receive a…

Artisan Studios, the developer behind Astria Ascending, has announced their next project. Lost Hellden is an action JRPG that is coming in 2025. Alongside the announcement is a trailer that demonstrates the art style they’re using, which is confusingly called “Deep 2D.” They explain it: “You play in 3D in hand-painted artworks with dynamic lighting and weather.” To me, it looks like 3D polygonal models with hand-painted textures over hybrid 2D pre-rendered backgrounds. Maybe they’re referring to the way the lighting…

Have you ever struggled to see something in the dark, or to read a small print or to recognize a familiar face? If you have, you are not alone. Many people face these challenges every day, and they can affect their quality of life and independence. But what if there were a way to enhance your vision with the power of artificial intelligence? CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER The app that narrates the world for you …

First up is text recognition. Fire up the app and hold your phone over a piece of printed or written text. Upon recognition, Seeing AI will start reading the text aloud until it gets to the end.Next is document recognition. Hold your phone over a full document, and the app will scan and display the words. You can then listen to the document read aloud by playing, pausing, skipping ahead, or going back as needed.Also: You can send a hug through the internet with this haptic inventionAnother handy feature is a barcode…

Infographics are an effective and free-flowing way to communicate information in a clear and concise manner. They are often used to present complex data in a way that is easy to understand, making them a valuable tool for businesses, educators, and anyone who wants to communicate information without being too verbose. But turning data into an appealing visual representation is easier said than done. Many businesses spend a lot of money to hire graphic designers to make professional-looking infographics. But there is an…

Enhancing Visual Impairment Navigation: Integrating GPT-4V(ision) and TTS for Advanced Sensory AssistanceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Enhancing Visual Impairment Navigation: Integrating GPT-4V(ision) and TTS for Advanced Sensory AssistanceContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Singer Billie Eilish fired back at what she sees as an unfair focus on women’s physiques. “Nobody ever says a thing about men’s bodies. If you’re muscular, cool. If you’re rail thin, cool,” she fumed about what she thinks is a double standard between the sexes when it comes to body image. Eilish, in a magazine interview said, “If you have a dad bod, cool. If you’re pudgy, love it! Everybody’s happy with it. You know why? Because girls are nice. They don’t give a…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, out now in cinemas in India and globally, is among the biggest theatrical releases this year, and for good reason. The first film in this specific series, 2018's Into the Spider-Verse was a surprise package that far exceeded expectations and won various accolades including an Oscar, offering a fresh new take on the beloved web-slinger. Its sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, not only lives up to expectations but goes even further in the expansiveness of its concepts, artwork, and visual…