Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can animate a single still photos to allow them to talk

Described in a research paper titled “VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis,” the AI model can take a photo of a person and an audio clip as input, and then output a video that matches the audio, showing the person speaking the words and making corresponding facial expressions, head movements and hand gestures. The Read more about Google researchers unveil ‘VLOGGER’, an AI that can animate a single still photos to allow them to talk[…]

Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition

The Apex Legends Global Series is currently in regional finals mode, but the North America finals have been delayed after two players were hacked mid-match. First, Noyan “Genburten” Ozkose of DarkZero suddenly found himself able to see other players through walls, then Phillip “ImperialHal” Dosen of TSM was given an aimbot. Genburten’s hack happened part Read more about Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition[…]