This is a video of the Guinness World Record holder for largest drone light show, with 3,051 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) participating in the high-flying performance. The record was achieved by the Shenzhen Damoda Intelligent Control Technology Company in Zhuhai, China. Is, uh, is anybody else concerned this company has
This is a promo video for Ring’s ‘Always Home Cam’, an autonomous drone camera that syncs with a Nest home security system and can fly around your house to patrol it when you’re not home, and investigate disturbances. *gets Ring drone camera notification* Oh cool my dog farted again. The
This is a video demonstration of DeepFaceDrawing, an artificial intelligence system that creates photorealistic portraits from really crappy drawings, and *eyeing example photo* I mean REALLY crappy. So, the next time you need to generate yourself a fake online boyfriend or girlfriend (without risking stealing someone’s Instagram photos) so your
Because the end can’t come soon enough, this is a video of Gollum deepfaked to perform Scatman John’s ‘The Scatman’. It’s pretty terrifying just how good it is. Thankfully *mixing Kool-Aid, tastes with pinky it will all be over soon. “Add more of the skull and crossbones powder.” More pirate
This is a drone video captured by Youtuber DoctorSbaitso around San Francisco yesterday, September 9th at 11AM, with the entire sky looking red and orange as a result of the nearby wildfires. Youtuber Zach Fett then added ‘2049’, the score from Blade Runner 2049 to the video since it looks
Bringing deepfake videos to their logical, completely not-porn related conclusion, this is a video of Harrison Ford deepfaked as young Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story, replacing actor Alden Ehrenreich. Would this version have performed better at the box office than the original release? No clue, and I’m
This is a video of the ‘Snatcher’ chameleon inspired robotic tongue developed by researchers at South Korea’s Seoul National University of Science and Technology. Some more info while I use one of those sticky hand toys from a 25¢ machine to steal Starbursts from my coworker’s desk: “For example, a
This is a video from researchers at the University Of Washington who have developed a tiny, pannable camera system capable of streaming live video that’s so small it can fit on the back of a beetle (or any other small insect). The entire system weighs only 248 milligrams in total.