Pyramids and pharaohs are all part of the assassins creed origins Video Game Developers added an educational feature based on authentic ancient egyptian sources canadian historian. Helped develop the educational concept the discovery tour could prove very useful for schools and museums. Make a game for entertainment for fun and we do discrepancies with history we recreate the narrative we create the story this time around were used the same environment but its not about a conflict anymore its not about the narrative its for them or about taking the time to explore. After a while developers realize that some of the hieroglyphs ancient egyptian writing can be extremely difficult to decode that gave them an idea for a Research Project which google wanted to support. Realize that theres a dick. Technological potential to decipher the year and with it to make it more accessible it takes years and years for someone to learn how if youre blessed with a little where when we use a computer and a human we can do it easier on. The computer uses Artificial Intelligence the computerized program learns to recognize and translate hieroglyphs the hieroglyph project needs a vast quantities of data so egyptologists worldwide are using an open Source Software to upload and share images of ancient inscriptions to the platform. So the first step in the project will be extracting a card if it comes from a wide variety of original sources before working on the tools and algorithms that come to recognize the partner assortment then we can analyze existing translations matching hard to fix sequences to unlock them meaning. That could be a boon for tonio sebastian rishta a professor of egypt ology at the Free University in berlin. His team has been working on an electronic dictionary of an ancient egyptian for some thirty years its still unfinished as hieroglyphs are far more complex than letters in a modern alphabet. And thats when unlike our abstract letters hieroglyphs are pictorial so you could draw them like tiny logos and make variations and then you could place this or that into the hands of these little figures and that leads to the essential problem where the symbols are ambivalent even this principle of property and there are several variations of the same symbols and theres a few to be done in this a skip the study of egyptology lacks enough funding to regularly work with Artificial Intelligence wish to welcome the Game Developers initiative but a usable computer translation for hybrid lives is still a long way off. And i would be an issue if it takes to. Its mushy just as you could hardly translate korean texan into german with todays computers and if you could imagine how difficult it would be to achieve a grammatically and linguistically correct translation from a string of hieroglyphics symbols into any modern language. And would on the. Scientists and gamers are working together to solve the riddles of ancient egypt the databases are growing fast as egyptologists contribute decrypted translations to the new digital hieroglyph library. Shift says walk like an egyptian. And now its time for our shift ranking of the most google names of twenty seventeen. In fifth place is american Actor Kevin Spacey google trends tracks the terms most often entered if one name is frequently googled in a short time its like the trend allegations of Sexual Harassment against kevin spacey and twenty seventeen interested a lot of users. In fourth place american Film ProducerHarvey Weinstein accused of sexual abuse and rape by dozens of women among them stars like summer high. This scandal helped ignite the me to discussions which i covered mass Sexual Harassment affecting women daily. Claiming third place was not yet off when the italian presenter broadcast a report about Nuclear Experiments in italy in november twenty seventh team users wanted to know who she was the report was false but her name was on monitors everywhere. In second spot was Meghan Markle the only one to attract medicines attention on this list with positive news the american actress got engaged to britains prince harry in november the wedding is set for may nineteenth in st georges chapel in windsor castle. Scandalising first place was news anchor matt lauer for over twenty years he was a fixture of American Television until november when accusations of Sexual Harassment of coworkers cost him his job. That was the ship ranking and now. Many instagram are always like to put their best foot forward in search of likes photos tend to focus on the sunny side of life and sweep the dirt under the rug which is changing perceptions of reality. Sites of San Francisco can be very photogenic but often ordinary snapshots just arent good enough anymore many instagram users want as many like since possible so the photos have to be perfect according to christine trends shes whats known as an influencer and shes hired a photographer to show her best side. Shes an instagram professional who earns from targeted advertising on her profile travel Companies Pay her to share her holiday photos and i would say some people are charging like thousands and thousands of photo to something which has only one hundred so much a big range its like a really hard thing to actually determine but people can definitely make up have a few thousand among. The social network and advertising platform is headquartered here in silicon valleys menlo park south of San Francisco in twenty twelve facebook acquired the company for around seven hundred sixty Million Euros close to five hundred employees watch over more than eight hundred million users its founder claims his app has changed the world. You would see people shift their way even looking at the world a little bit i think its really interesting and its always this interplay between you know the constraints of the op and then how people and turning it into their own way but i love when people say you know i now notice things out in the world that. This is going to be great on instagram but maybe they would have just walked by there before but now theyve got this different the world instagram isnt just changing its users view of the world but the shape of the world itself a designer purposely made this restaurant. With interesting details to inspire patrons to take pictures. And it seems to be working hundreds of photos of it appear on instagram even the restrooms. Have a lot of pattern things that have a lot of texture and things are very unique instagram very well so things that are very memorable you know things that people say wow ive never seen that before i got to take a photo of it. Seemed to have even been decorated especially for instagram users and theyre. The unpleasant is undesirable on instagram says max home line director of San Franciscos Fine Art Museum the ugly signs of life are filtered out. The original ideology of the like whether on facebook or elsewhere i think is gradually being perverted so its just a form of self affirmation. And of course you see it coming out of American Culture where everybody says about almost everything its great. Its great its instagram is said to be a nice network free of haters and fake news but it seems to be treading a narrow line between advertising and reality. Shift says more beauty for the world. And now short and sweet the ship snapshot. In rogue one Carrie Fisher played a princess much younger than her real. Sophisticated Computer Technology and millions of dollars made it possible but it can be done cheaper as a reddit user demonstrated. The free. Software deep frank capra can recreate the film effect. Of his the original is the fake. The Software UtilizesMachine Learning algorithms by google to switch faces. Countless fakes videos have already been made nicholas cage is a favorite for recasting a new role. Unfortunately the program has also been misused to plaster the faces of well known actresses on to sex videos which resulted in the groups getting banned from reddit the program is still available. That was a snapshot. And now one more on the Digital World this is our Facebook Page d w digital for all the latest digital news entrenched interesting apps gadgets and helpful tutorials you can watch the ship reports there to. Follow us and tell us what you think. On d w digital. And as always we leave shift through the exit our internet find of the week this time its unsatisfying. Nearly everyones had this experience almost. But not quite. The graphic artists are parallel studio in france were annoyed enough to take action and express their dissatisfaction in colorful animations. Sometimes theres nothing you can do. Many netizens feel the same way the video has over two million views on video. And next time on shift. The latest model smartphones can be unlocked with iris scans or fingerprints. Instead of penthouse but how dependable are these technologies. And where does the personal data go once theyre collected biometric Data Security next week on shift. Kick off the bundesliga highlights. The sneak another late to slip with the final minute penalty lead and oakland financial games mentioned above thanks to a stunning goal from marco lloyds eleven. 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