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Was wie eine Challenge daherkommt, wird vielleicht bei BMW bald zur Wegfahrsperre. Also, denkbar wäre es

Was wie eine Challenge daherkommt, wird vielleicht bei BMW bald zur Wegfahrsperre. Also, denkbar wäre es

Fett in die Krise

Man muss nicht Dagobert Duck heißen, um gut durch Corona-Zeiten zu kommen. Weltweit machen 20 Millionen Dollar-Millionäre vor, wie es geht – Deutschland ist ganz vorne mit dabei

Man muss nicht Dagobert Duck heißen, um gut durch Corona-Zeiten zu kommen. Weltweit machen 20 Millionen Dollar-Millionäre vor, wie es geht - Deutschland ist ganz vorne mit dabei

Coronakrise: Die Maske schreibt mit

Ein Startup aus Japan hat einen intelligenten Mundschutz entwickelt, der die Worte des Trägers aufnehmen, übersetzen und verschicken kann. Ein Problem gibt es aber bei der Zielgruppe. Ein Bericht von Felix Lill (Coronavirus, Internet)

Ein Startup aus Japan hat einen intelligenten Mundschutz entwickelt, der die Worte des Trägers aufnehmen, übersetzen und verschicken kann. Ein Problem gibt es aber bei der Zielgruppe. Ein Bericht von Felix Lill (Coronavirus, Internet)

Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months

Google’s next target? Linux kernel portability and modularity.

Google today dropped a blog post detailing its progress on improving the Android ecosystem's update speed. The company has been hard at work for the past few years modularizing Android, with the hope that making Android easier to update would result in device manufacturers pushing out updates faster. Google's efforts have been paying off, with the company announcing Android 10 has had the fastest rollout ever.

The last few versions of Android have each brought a major improvement to Android's update system. Android 8 introduced Project Treble, which separated the OS from the hardware support, enabling easier porting of Android across devices. In Android 9 Pie, Google completed its work on Treble and started publishing Generic System Images (GSIs): drop-in versions of Android that work on any Project Treble-compatible device. Android 10 introduced Project Mainline and the new APEX file type designed for updatable lower-level system components, delivered through the Play Store.

Google's stats show that all this work is actually improving the ecosystem. "Thanks to these efforts," Google writes, "the adoption of Android 10 has been faster than any previous versions of Android. Android 10 was running on 100 million devices 5 months post launch—28% faster than Android Pie."

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Lilbits 7-9-2020:

Up until recently one of the key selling points for using Wink’s smart home products was that you didn’t also need to sign up for a subscription service to use them. But a Wink hub, motion sensor, or other products and you could just use t…

Up until recently one of the key selling points for using Wink’s smart home products was that you didn’t also need to sign up for a subscription service to use them. But a Wink hub, motion sensor, or other products and you could just use them. Then Wink announced in May that it was going […]

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Unreal’s new iPhone app does live motion capture with Face ID sensors

It’s another rare, killer app for the iPhone’s TrueDepth sensor array.

Unreal Engine developer Epic Games has released Live Link Face, an iPhone app that uses the front-facing 3D sensors in the phone to do live motion capture for facial animations in 3D projects like video games, animations, or films.

The app uses tools from Apple's ARKit framework and the iPhone's TrueDepth sensor array to stream live motion capture from an actor looking at the phone to 3D characters in Unreal Engine running on a nearby workstation. It captures facial expressions as well as head and neck rotation.

Live Link Face can stream to multiple machines at once, and "robust timecode support and precise frame accuracy enable seamless synchronization with other stage components like cameras and body motion capture," according to Epic's blog post announcing the app. Users get a CSV of raw blendshape data and an MOV from the phone's front-facing video camera, with timecodes.

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The Star Spangled Pranger

US-Geheimdienste, Demokraten und die NY-Times wollen glauben machen: Trump und Putin haben sich verschworen. Die Message kommt an. Und verhindert womöglich den Truppenabzug aus Afghanistan – und aus Deutschland

US-Geheimdienste, Demokraten und die NY-Times wollen glauben machen: Trump und Putin haben sich verschworen. Die Message kommt an. Und verhindert womöglich den Truppenabzug aus Afghanistan - und aus Deutschland