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. 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 environments 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. The potential to decide for the year and with it to make it more accessible it takes years and years for someone to learn how the earths orbit and where as when we use a computer and a human we can do it easier. 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 with a cottons from a wide variety of original sources before working on the tools and algorithms that come to recognize in the darkness automatically then we can analyze existing translations matching hard sequences to unlock them meaning. That could be a boon for tonio sebastian rishta a professor of egyptology 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 those 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 that the symbols are ambivalent even to this principle of property and there are several variations of the same symbols and theres a few to be done in the seven stations skip the study of egyptology lacks enough funding to regularly work with Artificial Intelligence which to welcome the Game Developers initiative but a usable computer translation from hybrid lips is still a long way off. Can also be an issue with text. Its mushy just as you could hardly translate korean texan into german with todays computers and that hugh 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 with. 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 googled names in twenty seventeen in fifth place is american Actor Kevin Spacey google trends search analysis tracks the terms most often entered if many people google or give a name in a short time it flags a trend and twenty seventeen the allegations of Sexual Harassment against kevin spacey titillated a lot of users. In fourth place was american Film ProducerHarvey Weinstein accused of sexual abuse and rape by dozens of women among them stars like selma i. X. Take a stand on health ignite the need to discussions over the extent of sexual coercion in the entertainment industry. Claiming third place was. When the italian presenter broadcast a report about Nuclear Experiments in italy in november twenty seventh seen users wanted to know who she was the report was false but her name was on monitors everywhere. Taking her place in the second spot was megan markel the only one to attract netizens attention without cutting a bad figure the american actress got engaged to britains prince harry you november twenty seventh teen and they married in may this year. 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 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. 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. Some people are charging like thousands a two thousand photo something which has only one hundred so its such a big range its like a really hard thing to actually determine but people can definitely make up a few thousand a month. A 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 i love when people say you know i now notice things out in the world. I think 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 said 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. Instagram is said to be 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. Short and sweet the shift snapshots. 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. Where deep frank capra can recreate the film effect. Of his the original below 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 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 want more on the Digital World this is our Facebook Page d w 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. Sometimes theres nothing you can do. Many medicines feel the same way the video has over two million views on video. Weve moved. Next time on shift. The latest model smartphones 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 a crazy tournaments a twenty eighteen world cup has been so far. Caught. Take a look at how the quarter finals went and whats coming up this week. Who is going to win a title in russia check it out. From heart stopping right to churchill good dreams come true. 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