NVIDIA Recreates Apollo 11 Moon Landing with Real-time Ray Tracing Back in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that major achievement in human space endeavours, researchers at NVIDIA have recreated the old demo made by them back in 2014 from low quality grainy images with industry-leading quality and details, thanks to RTX. The company has used RTX real-time ray tracing technology on RTX GPUS to achieve this visualization by paying attention to the lighting and reflections....

Pampers Now Has a Smart Diaper That Sends Push Notifications When Your Baby Gets Wet Parenting can be a real struggle for parents these days, especially since both the members have to find an ideal work-life balance to take care of the baby. The process gets even more complicated if you’re going through your late 20’s with your first baby. However, Pampers now has something to help parents. Lumi is a connected baby care systemcomprising of an activity sensor, diapers, and a video monitor....

This AI Converts Your Selfies into Vintage Portraits Amidst the popular AI-based Faceapp andits alternativestrending all over social media, there exists this website namedAI Portraitsthat changes your image to an artistic portrait. The project is an effort of researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. The researchers have used a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in AI Portraits that is trained from over 45,000 portrait images.The websitestates that GAN is composed of two neural networks – one for recognizing the portraits while the other is used for generating portraits....

This App Pauses Your Screen When You’re Not Looking One of the most frustrating experiences while using a smartphone is the screen timeout. Tweaking it exactly to sync with your usage patterns can be troublesome and exhausting. It either becomes too long or too short. Most of the time, a sweet-spot for timeouts is hard to find. If this is something you can relate to, check out FacePause. FacePause pauses the screen when it fails to detect a face....

This Classroom Uses AI and VR to Teach Mandarin Learning new languages can be a hectic and time-consuming process. It involves a lot of study and requires putting in an ample amount of time and effort. Often, the process can be boring as foreign words are unrelatable and need repeated practice to memorize. To make the learning process more intuitive, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) situated in Troy, New York has developed a classroom that uses AI and VR to teach Mandarin Chinese....

This Country is Forcing Citizens to Install Root Certificates to Spy on Them While software companies like Mozilla are trying to improve user-privacy on the internet, the Kazakhstan government has taken an insane step to intrude the privacy of the people using internet in the country by forcing them to install a root certificate issued by the government. The government of Kazakhstan has instructed all the major Internet Service Providers to allow users access to HTTPS websites only after they have installed the root certificate....

This Stand Turns Your Apple Watch into an iPod Classic for $15 Look, the iPod Classic was one of the most amazing devices Apple has ever made. It was, true to its name, a classic. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t make that iPod anymore, choosing instead to only make the iPod Touch. Well, if you’re interested in having an iPod Classic in today’s day and age, you can have one now… kinda....