e427 — DeepBarbie Fakery

35mm film negatives - the kind that required a great deal of skill to deepfake

Stories & toots about #Barbie, #AI, #deepfakes, image obfuscation with PhotoGuard & Glaze, resume hacking, #UnrealEngine for the 2024 #Ford #Mustang and much more! Continue reading

Episode 311 — Mesh Networks

mesh network

NASA chip hardware from 1990s, Microsoft Mesh, electric cars & motors, nature inspired drones, COVID inspired German words, Doom on PlayStation, 20 year old Diablo save games resurrected and much more Continue reading

Episode 310 — Electric PotterVision

old television

Stories of Perseverance, an extraterrestrial secret message, playing Choplifter on an Apple II in Unreal, animating family photos via deepfakery, solar & human batteries and AR & LEGO dioramas Continue reading

Episode 202 – Everything Old Is New Again

Michael M starts off this episode with true blast from the past, even if it was in the wrong order from the plan — how modern micro-X-ray techniques are able to bring back images from daguerrotypes that were once thought ruined.  The images of photos taken long ago are now visible again, with amazing detail. The team then turns to an MIT Technology Review article on AI, which focuses on the challenge that games present, and what can be learned from how artificial intelligence teams play those games.  The game in this case is Dota 2 — Defense of the … Continue reading