Tag: video
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How to Use a Video to Dry Out a Wet Smartphone – At Least a Little Bit
Has your smartphone or another speaker gotten wet? Removing water from your smartphone using a video? What sounds like nonsense at first glance actually has a serious background. The idea that sound sequences in a video can shake off water droplets from speakers is based on the basic functioning of speakers and the physics of…
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Ronald Reagan: We begin bombing in 5 minutes…
Ronald Reagan’s off-the-cuff remark, “We begin bombing in five minutes,” is one of the most notorious examples of how a simple joke can ripple through global politics, particularly during the fraught atmosphere of the Cold War. The comment, made on August 11, 1984, was not meant to be heard by the public, but it quickly…
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AI-Framework: Microsoft VASA-1
VASA-1 is an AI framework developed by Microsoft Research that can generate lifelike talking faces from a single static image and a speech audio clip. The main innovations include a model for holistically generating facial dynamics and head movements in the latent space of the face, as well as developing an expressive and disentangled latent…
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Does it burn? A bouquet of tulips in the dark
The second attempt from our series of burning videos. A bouquet of tulips with Methylated spirit. Remotely ignited. Burns not so good.
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Does it burn? A bouquet of tulips
The first attempt from our series of burning videos. A bouquet of tulips with white spirit. Remotely ignited. Burns only semigood.
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Some short jokes about Austria
Who was the greatest female author in German history? Ann Schluss. Her books had a way of taking over Czechoslovakia and Austria in particular. — Have you heard of the Austrian man Duerf? He was the world’s leading reverse psychologist — What do you call an Austrian woman’s undergarments? A Freudian Slip. — Why did…