Articles

Affichage des articles associés au libellé Deep

Introducing Outset, NZ’s Largest Deep Tech Hub Gets New Name

Image
Monday, April 19, 2021, 9:56 a.m. Press release: beginning Today New Zealand's largest and fastest growing hub for deep tech startups is renamed and LevelTwo becomes Outset Ventures. According to CEO Imche Fourie, the new name reflects the evolution of Outset Ventures into the largest company in the country, based on early-stage companies based on scientific and technical breakthroughs to address global challenges. "We are no longer just a shared space on the second floor of a building, but also a place where entrepreneurs can expand their groundbreaking innovations in science and technology with us from the start," says Ms. Fourie. “The new name speaks to our commitment to growing New Zealand's thriving deep-tech business community, where founders can find support to heal their global ambitions, cure diseases, slow climate change and reverse pollution. and produce sustainable food, fuel and space flights. &quo

Can you spot a deep fake? Latest technology makes it harder to catch

Image
LEE COUNTY, Florida - Put simply, deep fakes use the latest technology to create pictures and videos that look like real life but are, in reality, far from it. "It's now extremely easy to create realistic fake graphics," said Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, director of consumer media research at the University of Florida. "It's really capable of learning from looking at lots of images and recreating and recreating some kind of interchange and mask." Take this viral deep fake for example. What looks like a video of Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise swinging a golf club is actually a completely made-up video. NBC2's Gage Goulding made an attempt to make a deep fake. With a video from NBC2 anchor Peter Busch and some footage of Tom Cruise in Top Gun, the process was under way. It was around $ 15 and it took me two hours to make this video. Is it good enough to fool you? It was in downtown Fort Myers that the first people to see the video fell for it.