Instagram tests out song lyric stickers

Instagram might be adding a new sticker to Stories: one that lets music lyrics play alongside a video. App researcher and tipster Jane Manchun Wong discovered the feature back in April and showed us how it works in a short clip. It shows a video of Rick Ashley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” with lyrics playing alongside it. The social network has been adding music features to Stories recently. In some markets, you can add background music to your posts and respond to questions with songs, among others.

Source: The Verge

Netflix’s ‘She-Ra’ comes back for a third season on August 2nd, Geena Davis joins the cast

If you’ve been waiting for Netflix’s reboot of She-Ra to come back, we have some good news for you. The show is coming back on August 2^nd for its third season and we get Geena Davis as part of the cast. The award-winning actress will voice a new character named Huntara, a hunter and leader of the Crimson Waste. They reluctantly team up with Adora, Glimmer, and Bow for a quest.

The show followed a teenager named Adora, an orphan raised by an evil army called the Horde. She finds a magical sword that transforms her into She-Ra. She defects from the Horde and together with other magical girls work to defeat the army.

Source: Engadget

Deepfakes technology and AI bring Salvador Dali back as a museum assistant

Modern art master and leading figure of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dali passed away over 30 years ago. The Spanish artist had himself cryogenically frozen hoping that science of the future and technology could bring him back. Dali believed that the world needs geniuses and artists and feared 'the loss of Dali.' Sadly, science isn't at a point were we can revive the dead, but technology can at least fool us into believing that we can.

Using Deepfakes technology (which gained notoriety by superimposing celebrity faces onto porn actors'), Artificial Intelligence, old footage and voice recordings of Salvador Dali as well as an actor to serve as a motion-capture subject, Dali is indeed back. Appearing inside a mirror to greet guests at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Dali AI interacts with guests with over 45 mins of new footage.

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‘Predator: Hunting Ground’ is multiplayer game coming to the PS4 in 2020

The team behind the Friday the 13^th game is making a new Predator game for the PlayStation 4—and it’s coming out next year. IllFonic announced at PlayStation State of Play that they are working on Predator: Hunting Ground, a competitive, online multiplayer experience. One group in the game will control the firepower and attempt to do paramilitary missions, while one player will be controlling the Predator. According to the developers, it’s working closely with Fox and Sony Interactive Entertainment to bring this movie franchise’s world into the game. IllFonic promises there will be surprises for everyone once the game arrives in 2020.

Source: Engadget