INTERESTING!!! THIS AMAZING SEARCH ENGINE AUTOMATICALLY SWAPS YOU INTO YOUR IMAGE RESULTS

Ever wonder what you would look like with long, wavy hair? I think you’d look great. But how can you try on a few looks without spending a fortune at the salon, or hours in photoshop? I’m glad you asked. All you need is a selfie and Dreambit, the face-swapping search engine.The system analyzes the picture of your face and determines how to intelligently crop it to leave nothing but your face. It then searches for images matching your search term — curly hair, for example — and looks for “doppelganger sets,” images where the subject’s face is in a similar position to your own.
A similar process is done on the target images to mask out the faces and intelligently put your own in their place — and voila! You with curly hair, again and again and again. It’s a bit like that scene in Being John Malkovich. Just as creepy depending on what face you’re putting in what situation. Keri Russell looks great in every style, though, as the diagram below shows

It’s not limited to hairstyles, either: put yourself in a movie, a location, a painting — as long as there’s a similarly positioned face to swap yours with, the software can do it. A few facial features, like beards, make the edges of the face difficult to find, however, so you may not be able to swap with Rasputin or Gandalf.

Dreambit is the brainchild of Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, a computer vision researcher at the Unviersity of Washington (she also does interesting work in facial recognition and augmented reality). And while it is fun and silly to play with, it could have more serious applications.

Kemelmacher-Shlizerman has also created systems that do automated age progression, something that can be useful in missing persons cases.
“With missing children, people often dye their hair or change the style so age-progressing just their face isn’t enough,” she said in a UW news release. “This is a first step in trying to imagine how a missing person’s appearance might change over time.”
In an email to TechCrunch, Kemelmacher-Shlizerman noted that the software is still very much in beta mode and as such can’t exactly be used by the FBI.
Dreambit and the processes behind it will be presented at SIGGRAPH next week, but you can read the paper, “Transfiguring Portraits,” right now

                                                                                                SOURCE : TECHCRUNCH.COM

GOOGLE MAKES COMICS READING ON PHONE EASIER BY MAKING USE OF MACHINE LEARNING

Plenty of people still like to read their comics on paper, but increasingly, phones and tablets are the devices of choice for keeping up with the Justice League.
Last year, Google introduced a new reading experience for comics in its Play Books store for Android that makes it easier to follow along with the story. Today, the company is launching yet another update to the comics reading experience — this time with a focus on making the speech bubbles in comics more readable on small devices.
As Google’s Head of Product for Play Books Greg Hartrell told me, the team looked at the feedback it got from the last update. While readers liked the new reading experience, they complained that it was still too hard to read the text on a small screen. Google set out to find a way to make reading the text easier without taking away from the visual experience.

So now, with the help of Google’s machine learning smarts, the Google Play team is launching Bubble Zoom. Google taught its algorithms to recognize panels and detect speech bubbles and thanks to that, you can now easily zoom into speech bubbles without having to pinch and zoom (and then inevitably get confused about which panel you were actually looking at). It’s smart and easy and probably the best use of machine learning for comic book fans yet.

To move between bubbles, you can either tap on them or use the volume buttons on your phone.
For now, Bubble Zoom is only enabled within all Marvel and DC collected volumes (that’s about 2,800 comics in Google’s store — and they are all available for 50 percent off right now if you use the code SDCC2016), but Hartrell tells me that the team already trained the algorithm on millions of pages and plans to roll it out to other comics and manga over time. “We want to come to the world and say: we nailed all the styles and comics that are out there,” he said about the company’s slow rollout plans.
For now, this new reading experience is also only available on Android. There is no launch date for iOS yet, but Hartrell notes that Google is currently focussing on getting the Android experience right.

                                                                                                     
                                                                                                        SOURCE: TECHCRUNCH.COM

MOOVIT WANTS TO HELP YOU CATCH 'EM IN POKEMON GO

Moovit wants to help you catch ’em all and catch the bus at the same time. It’s integrated with Pokemon Go to make it faster to catch a Grimer. (For the uninitiated, that’s a Pokemon creature, not a subway train.)
If you’ve got the Moovit app or want to download it for iOS or Android, you can type in “PokeStops” in the app’s Trip Planner. This will bring up directions to local Pokemon Go PokeStops if you need more eggs or potions and to PokeGyms if you’ve got some evolved Pokemon itching for a fight.
Maybe most importantly, you can run Pokemon Go and Moovit (which sounds like a bovine Pokemon, come to think of it) at the same time. This is a rarity for Pokemon Go. While the game is up and running, you can at the same time use the Live Directions feature, which will alert you that you’re approaching your stop. Your actual stop, like where you get off the bus to go to work, not a PokeStop.

It’s been a busy year for Moovit, the transit app that helps users coordinate trips across modes of transportation. First, the company expanded its accessibility features for blind users. Then it integrated with Uber, closing that tricky “last mile” between public transportation stops and where you actually live.
Given all the concern for safety and situational awareness while playing Pokemon Go, maybe players would be better off taking transit and hailing a ride home instead of running into traffic on the trail of an elusive Pikachu.

                                                                                                         SOURCE: TECHCRUCH.COM

HOW TO REMOVE THE PAINT.exe VIRUS

WHAT IS THE PAINT VIRUS?

According to solvusoft , ''PAINT.exe is a type of  EXE file associated with Windows developed by Microsoft for the Windows Operating System. The latest known version of PAINT.exe is 1.0.0.0, which was produced for Windows. This EXE file carries a popularity rating of 1 stars and a security rating of "UNKNOWN".

The question to be asked is if this is really a MICROSOFT file. I've done a research on what this paint file really is and although I couldn't get a real meaning for PAINT.exe, I did get solutions to fixing the virus; 

1. REPAIRING REGISTRY ENTRIES

There are applications used to repair or fix registry entries. PAINT.exe affects other (.exe )files in folders in your internal drive by replacing the real (.exe)file with an 825kb file and hides the real (.exe)file, this is as a result of infected registries which changes the file location or replaces the real (.exe)file as said previously.
Winthruster from solvusoft helps to fix the registry entries.

2. FIXING SYSTEM ERRORS

If the above doesn't work the next step is to try and fix the system errors. 

System errors can be fixed from properties by following the steps below:

(a) Go to my computer on your PC

(b) Right-click on your hard disk and click on properties

(c) Click on tools and click on check under error checking.

(d) Wait for it and your system errors will be fixed.

3. CLEARING THE PAINT.exe and AUTORUN.inf  

If you've noticed Autorun.inf could be found where the Paint.exe is, so the last answer would be to clear the Autorun.inf  from each partition in your PC by searching for Paint.exe and Autorun.inf