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26 minutes ago Mehdi Nitmazi interaction The new feature called “Portrait” in FaceTime on iOS 15 is not exclusive to FaceTime, but can also be used to blur the background in video calls made through other apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Zoom and other Snapchat. Apple Impact at Your Fingertips for (Almost) Everyone with updates iOS 15 and iPadOS 15Apple brought Portrait-style video to FaceTime on iPhone and iPad, creating attractive background blurring in real-time video chats, as well as several new features like link sharing or simultaneous transmission via SharePlay. When Apple released iOS 15, it didn’t say whether background blur on video calls and microphone recording effects were limited to FaceTime. FaceTime has its own built-in controls for Portrait video. But it turns out that any app that accesses the microphone or the camera can use the audio and video effects of iOS 15. In fact, the controls for the video and audio effects are displayed automatically in the Control Center as soon as the video starts. In Zoom, Snapchat, Instagram and similar apps. While most apps take advantage of these features directly and for free, some will need to be updated to implement the latest SDK from Apple.…

A man from Norwood has been convicted after he filmed himself waving a knife around in a nightclub. Abel Buafo, 23, of Berry Lane, pleaded guilty to possession of a knife, possession of Class A drugs, possession of a Class B drug, possession of criminal property and being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug. It comes after detectives were alerted to Snapchat videos of Buafo at a nightclub on Silver Street in Enfield, where he recorded himself in ‘selfie style’ with a black folding knife on December 22, 2019. Officers reviewed CCTV from the nightclub for the same evening which corroborated the Snapchat footage. Buafo with knife on Snapchat ( Credit: Met Police) The footage showed Buafo dancing and singing while waving the knife around, pointing it at his phone’s camera as well as towards people. The footage also showed Buafo ‘fist bumping’ people while holding the knife. He is seen several times to get the knife out of his pocket and flick it open – at one point he is seen to drop it on the floor before picking it up. In the Snapchat footage, he says he has his ‘blicky at the rave,’ while holding the…

She is a wildly talented entertainer on the cusp of releasing her first new music in two years.And Lizzo gave her 11 million fans and followers on Instagram a significant tease of her new single Rumors on Friday, with a beguiling clip in which she lip-synched and danced to the song.The Soulmate songbird, 33, started the clip off in a magenta and blue filigree patterned button down top, along with large silver hoop earrings.  Baring it all: Lizzo gave her fans and followers on Instagram a significant tease of her new single Rumors on Friday, with a beguiling clip in which she 'lost' her clothesToward the end, however, the body-positive star turned around against the wall, and the clip jump cut to her in nothing but a black tube top and thong.  The skimpy outfit left nothing to the imagination as Lizzo turned and showed off her backside to the camera.As she turned her head back around, one of her earrings fell off, before she approached the camera with mock shyness and disbelief.  Owning it: The Soulmate songbird, 33, started the clip off in a magenta and blue filigree patterned button down top, along with large silver hoop earringsToward the end, however: The…

Camila Cabello She launched the Healing Justice project, a fund to provide mental health support to frontline workers and activists. The singer partnered with the Movement Voices Fund to provide funding to ten organizations to obtain resources to help the mental well-being of their workers. For example, painting In the report, Capello provided the initial funds for the project and the first round of the ten grants will amount to nearly $250,000 (£180,000). The ten selected organisations will receive grants to provide six months of mental health care to their primary workers. It follows Capello’s work on ethnic and social justice Racist posts on Tumblr that he wrote as a teenager It resurfaced in late 2019. Between 2012 and 2013, Cabello shared a number of racist posts on his Tumblr account, including racist jokes and photos. In a lengthy apology posted on Twitter at the time, Capello admitted that his messages were “horrible and painful,” adding, “When I was younger, I used language that I was very ashamed of and would regret forever.” “I was uneducated and ignorant, and as soon as I understood the story, weight, and true meaning behind this horrible and harmful language, I was so embarrassed…

Facebook has introduced Droidlet, an open-source, modular, heterogeneous embodied agent architecture. The Droidlet platform can be used to build embodied agents using natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics. Now with Facebook Droidlet platform, researchers can build more intelligent real-world robots. In addition, it simplifies the integration of a wide range of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and robotics to facilitate rapid prototyping. Droidlet A droid agent is considered to be made up of a collection of components, which are both heuristic and learned. Droidlet allows for component swapping and customisable designs. This software platform gives researchers a debug dashboard as well as a markup interface for correcting errors and annotation. Robotic-focused features such as robot-specific wrappers and environments and models built specifically for robots are also included.Register for our Workshop Not only does the Droidlet platform have different tools and advancements in artificial intelligence, like PyRobot, AllenNLP, and Detectron, but it also connects these iterations of tools to provide a better and unified experience.  » Read More

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.(HT PRINT) Rahul Gandhi met the minor girl's family members earlier on Wednesday and asserted them that he is with them on the path to justice and "will not back down even an inch". Written by Susmita Pakrasi | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi PUBLISHED ON AUG 07, 2021 10:33 AM IST Twitter has taken down Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s tweet that revealed the identity of the relatives of a minor who was raped and murdered. The tweet that showed a picture of Gandhi meeting the family members of minor girl showed as 'no longer available' on the microblogging website for violating its rules. A click on the tweet led to a message that read: "This tweet violated the Twitter rules."Posting a picture of his meeting with the minor's family earlier on Wednesday, Gandhi had tweeted in Hindi: "Parents' tears are saying only one thing -- their daughter, the daughter of this country, deserves justice. And I am with them on this path to justice."The action from Twitter comes after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had asked the Delhi Police and the microblogging site to take action over Gandhi posting…

A new book by two New York Times journalists about recent events at Facebook reveals a lot about how the social-media giant operates and its bid for market dominance In their new book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, two New York Times journalists pull off the difficult feat of telling a story many of us feel we already know, in such a way that we quickly discover just how much we don’t know. The award-winning writers both cover technology for the paper, but bring different areas of expertise to the book. Cecilia Kang, based in Washington DC, covers the business end of technology, with a focus on regulatory policy, while Sheera Frenkel, out in San Francisco, covers the technical side of technology, with an expertise in cybersecurity. The book arose out of an investigative story that ran in the New York Times in November 2018, “Delay, Deny, and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis”. The explosive, detailed piece focused on the company’s clumsy leadership stumbles and questionable handling of a succession of crises,  » Read More

Shaquille O’ Neal has clap backs that are as sharp as his criticisms for Dwight Howard, which he made apparent after the now three-time Los Angeles Lakers player’s video impersonation of him. “I still got— I still got the Milwaukee Bucks winning,” Howard says in the video using a deep, slow baritone to mimic Shaq and bursting into laughter afterward. “I got Giannis— he’s the new Superman, so I think he’s going to win. Alright, Shaq— got dang!” Shaq seized the opportunity to shoot back at Howard with a quick repost on Instagram and a shady caption for the Los Angeles Lakers center. “Not bad @dwighthoward reminds me of your game SO SO,” he wrote. Such commentary skews similar to his recent thoughts about Howard and his heartfelt speech after winning the NBA championship with the Lakers last year.Related StoriesSTORY CONTINUES BELOWAccording to Shaq, Howard didn’t do much for the team’s collective victory and considers him a “role player” who simply plays well. Leaving the subject of his criticism nameless, Shaq stated, “I ain’t gonna say no names. Sit your ass down, you ain’t do nothing,” and deemed anyone who poses as if they’re the foundation of a team championship win a “bandwagon jumper.” He took another dig at the eight-time All-Star player two weeks…

Bryant: 'No excuses' for no 2nd title but 'proud' of core originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago MILWAUKEE — When Kris Bryant got to the visitors clubhouse in Milwaukee his Cubs past immediately hit him in the face. Not because the Giants were playing so close to Chicago or even that two familiar media faces were there to rehash his departure, exactly one week earlier when a rare Cubs championship era snuffed out in a 24-hour flurry of trades. “It’s weird sitting here on a Friday and watching the Cubs play at 1:20,” Bryant said of the Cubs-Sox game playing on the clubhouse TV. “Looking at the lineup and trying to figure out who’s who and stuff like that. Seeing them on TV is kind of surreal.” The last time Bryant was in Milwaukee, Cubs were blowing a seven-run lead on the way to getting swept during an 11-game losing streak, and he was on the team hitting bottom. “Things just kind of unraveled quickly.  » Read More

An article from Whether you like it or not, whether you know about it or not, K-pop is a huge topic on Twitter, with the platform now a key network for K-pop fans. In fact, K-pop is so huge that it's the dominant topic of discussion in the app. As explained by Twitter: "K-pop continues to dominate the conversation on Twitter globally, even during unprecedented times. Fans turn to Twitter to connect with their favorite K-pop artists and the #KpopTwitter community around the world. In the recent year between the period from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, there were 7.5 billion Tweets about K-pop, setting yet another record for the most number of Tweets annually related to K-pop." For context, Twitter also recently shared that the gaming discussion on the platform reached a new high in 2020, at 2 billion total tweets.  So the Twitter gaming discussion, which is huge in itself, equates to just over a quarter of the total K-pop tweets. It's hard to get your head around just how significant the K-pop Twitter community actually is. That also provides some further insight as to how K-pop tweeters have been able to quash the impact of various…