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Talk to Your Own Personal Isaac Newton With Ailias’s Hologram Avatars

Talk to Your Own Personal Isaac Newton With Ailias’s Hologram Avatars

Published by skeptic

It’s the classic awkward icebreaker: If you could invite anyone, dead or alive, to a dinner party, who would it be? Aristotle? Ailias is a company based in Surrey, UK, which promises to make that hypothetical a reality. It can reanimate historical and current legends with 3D hologram avatars that are fully conversational, knowledgeable, and can be delivered to you in a box. The technology isn’t bespoke. Many companies provide life-size hologram displays for events and parties, everything from floating 3D displays of Santa’s sleigh or 3D Holo-Trucks. The physicist Dennis Gabor even won a Nobel Prize in 1971 for his work that led to holography, even though a life-size Elon Musk isn’t probably the result that he (or anyone) had in mind. What sets Ailias apart is the company’s playful focus on history and education, which the company describes as “ultra character creation.” The company focuses on animating dead notable personalities into real-feeling conversational holograms, designed for interaction rather than spectacle. Ailias’ holograms can juggle, do squats, or even breakdance, making your party, exhibition …

Thandiwe Newton, Ncuti Gatwa Cast in Michaela Coel’s New HBO Series

Thandiwe Newton, Ncuti Gatwa Cast in Michaela Coel’s New HBO Series

Published by Daniella Wilson

Michaela Coel’s next series for HBO and the BBC, First Day on Earth, is adding to its cast as filming gets underway. Thandiwe Newton, Ncuti Gatwa, Maxine Peake and Danny Sapani have joined Coel in the show, in which Coel plays a novelist at a personal crossroads. The series is Coel’s first as creator, writer and star since the critically hailed and Emmy- and BAFTA-winning I May Destroy You. Aside from character names, details about the roles for the four actors are being kept quiet for now. Newton (Westworld, Line of Duty) will play a character named Anya; Gatwa (Doctor Who, Barbie) will play Darren; Peake (Say Nothing) will play Helen; and Sapani (Halo) will play Ernest. HBO and the BBC placed a series order for First Day on Earth in August 2024. The show comes from Various Artists Limited (which also produced I May Destroy You) and is co-produced by HBO and the BBC in association with A24. Here’s the logline for the show (which has changed a bit since the series pickup announcement): …

¿Por qué predijo Sir Isaac Newton que el mundo terminaría en 2060 d.C.? – OpentheWord.org

¿Por qué predijo Sir Isaac Newton que el mundo terminaría en 2060 d.C.? – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Pintura de Sir Isaac Newton por Godfrey Kneller, 1689 ENGLISH: 19 | Why did Sir Isaac Newton predict world would end in 2060 AD? En este artículo, busco responder la pregunta: ¿por qué predijo Sir Isaac Newton que el mundo terminaría alrededor de 2060 d.C.? Si estabas conduciendo por EE.UU. en 2011, algo extraño estaba ocurriendo. Carteles publicitarios aparecían por todo el país anunciando que el rapto de Cristo iba a tener lugar el 21 de mayo de 2011 y que ese sería el día del juicio para todos los demás. Era parte de una elaborada campaña con un presupuesto estimado de alrededor de $5 millones, llevada a cabo por Family Radio, un popular ministerio cristiano con sede en California. Estaba difundiendo la predicción de su fundador, Harold Camping. Cuando el evento no ocurrió, un avergonzado Camping readjustó su fecha, afirmando que el 21 de mayo fue el juicio espiritual y que el juicio real ahora tendría lugar unos meses después, el 21 de octubre. Por supuesto, tampoco sucedió entonces. Después de que sus predicciones se …