Lives 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 maxine deal helped develop the educational concept the discovery tour could prove very useful for schools and museums. Normally we wait to 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 a little more 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. Potential to decide for the year and with it to make it more accessible it takes years and years for someone to learn that with ovitz and where as when we use a computer and a human we can do it easier. The computer uses Artificial Intelligence the computerized program law. 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 book in the project will be extracting the card if it happens from a wide variety of original sources before working on the tools and algorithms that come to recognize in the current source model then we can analyze existing translations matching card sequences to unlock them meaning. That could be a boon for tony or 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. Undoes us ones of which is that 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 here the symbols are ambivalent even to this principle a property and there are several variations of the same symbol and feel about the safety station 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 from hieroglyphs is still a long way off. And i would be initially takes to its. Just as you could hardly translate korean texan into german with todays computers and if you could imagine how difficult it would be into a chief a grammatical and linguistically correct translation of fish from a string of hieroglyphics symbols into any modern language. Then it 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. Chip says walk like an egyptian. And now its time for our ship ranking of the most googled names in 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 it flags a 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 selma high. The scandal helped ignite the me to discussions which im covered mass Sexual Harassment affecting women daily. Claiming third place was not yet off when the italian prisoner 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. With 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 or. 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. Sights of San Francisco can be very photogenic but often ordinary snapshots just arent good enough anymore many instagram users want as many likes as 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. And stops shes an instagram professional who earns from targeted advertising on her profile travel Companies Pay her to share her holiday photos. Some people are charging like thousands of guys a photo to something which has only a couple hundred so its such 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 output 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 i think oh this is going to be great on instagram but maybe they would have just walked by there before but now theyve got this different to 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 photogenic flooding it with light and interesting details to inspire patrons to. 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 and i got to take a photo of it. Seem to have even been decorated especially for instagram users and their. 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 affirmations. 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 cagers 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 snapshots. 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. Can recreate the film effect. As the original. Software utilizes Machine Learning algorithms which faces. Countless fakes videos have already been made. Nicolas cage is a favorite for recasting in new roles 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 you digital for all the latest digital news and trends interesting apps gadgets and helpful tutorials you can watch the ship reports there to. Follow us and tell us what you think. On t. 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 of parallel studio and friends were annoyed enough to take action and express their dissatisfaction in colorful animation its so. Cool. Sometimes theres nothing you can do. Many netizens feel the same way the video has over two million views on the no move. The next time on shift. The latest model smart phones can be unlocked with iris scans or fingerprints instead of pin codes but how dependable are these technologies and where does the personal data go once theyre collected biometric Data Security next week on shift. What might sound like Science Fiction is actually a brylin startups vision of reality. Origins from the treaty printer. The enterprising biochemists hope to revolutionize transplants with this technology. And of course they intend to turn it into a lucrative business. Made in germany thirty minutes doubling. Every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word emerged in the. Nico is in germany to learn german why not learn english simple online on your mobile and free yourself from the w e learning course because fish german made easy. European stocks deliver a closing performance of the lead. 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