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2022-02-17 17:15:18 Faces can unlock smartphones, provide access to a secure building, and speed up passport control at airports, verifying identities for numerous purposes.
An international team of researchers from Australia, New Zealand and India has taken facial recognition technology to the next level, using a person's expression to manipulate objects in a virtual reality setting without the use of a handheld controller or touchpad.
In a world first study led by the University of Queensland, human computer interaction experts used neural processing techniques to capture a person's smile, frown and clenched jaw and used each expression to trigger specific actions in virtual reality environments.
One of the researchers involved in the experiment, University of South Australia's Professor Mark Billinghurst, says the system has been designed to recognize different facial expressions via an EEG headset.
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2022-02-16 17:41:25 In the early universe, all previously discovered distant protoclusters like, for example, “The Spiderweb” (left: artist’s impression) are full of vigorously star-forming galaxies. In contrast, the newly-discovered protocluster “MAGAZ3NE J095924+022537” contains a high fraction of red and dead galaxies like the nearby “Coma” cluster (right). The discovery of an ancient cluster containing galaxies which resemble those found in modern clusters was a huge surprise.

Credit: Spiderweb: M. Kornmesser/ESO; Coma: Russ Carroll, Robert Gendler, & Bob Franke/Dan Zowada Memorial Observatory
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2022-02-15 09:30:28 This artist’s impression depicts the formation of a galaxy cluster in the early Universe. The galaxies are vigorously forming new stars and interacting with each other. Such a scene closely resembles the Spiderweb Galaxy (formally known as MRC 1138-262) and its surroundings, which is one of the best-studied protoclusters.

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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2022-02-14 18:25:55 How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits

#Stars and neighboring planets can fling giant worlds toward their suns..Read full article
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2022-02-14 18:23:18 Should we ban killer robots?

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2021-11-17 13:05:03 Longest lunar eclipse in centuries coming
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2021-11-15 17:04:54 Bitcoin receives first major upgrade in years
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