May 2023 business blogspot

Three years ago, Sony unveiled a 15.6-inch display that used eye tracking and a micro-optical lens to deliver 3D visuals without the need for glasses or VR headsets. Now the company has added a 27-inch, 4K model in its Spatial Reality Display lineup. The new display works much as before with the LCD display using a micro-optical lens to divide the on-screen visuals between a viewer's left and right eyes. The unit dynamically adapts the image as a user moves around - up to 25 degrees left and right, plus 20 degrees up and 40 degrees down. The system incorporates 10-bit processing and Sony's super-resolution algorithm from its Bravia display line to optimise image quality and colour reproduction, in addition to up-scaling content from 2K to 4K. Designed for industrial designers, architects, engineers, software and game developers and medical professionals as well as for signage and retail applications, the ELF-SR2 unit has HDMI 2.0 and USB-C ports for connection to a source computer.
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Mobile Photography Awards
The winners of the 12th annual Mobile Photography Awards prove that the camera you always have with you - your smartphone's eye on the world - is the best image making machine you could wish for. It wasn't always so. Older readers will remember when mobile phones first started getting cameras - with not even one megapixel capabilities and screen resolutions even smaller. Nokia's first camera phone in 2001, for example, was the 7650, which would take a terrible 640 x 480 picture and show it to you on a terrible 176 x 208-pixel screen. With today's smartphones, everyone's got a monster of a digital camera in their pocket, with the result that the overwhelming majority of photos are now taken on mobile devices. "Mobile photography has come a long way, and it is exciting to see the quality of the images that can be created with just a smartphone", says Daniel Berman, Founder of the Mobile Photography Awards. Across 12 categories, including Landscapes, Travel, Architecture, Street Photography and more creative designations like Silhouettes and The Darkness / Noir, judges attempted to highlight the unique "accessibility, immediacy and portability" of mobile devices in their selections from a record number of international entries. 
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Look Who's Coming To TV News
It’s “Fedha”, an AI-generated news presenter who will soon be reading online bulletins for Kuwait News. In a 13-second preview clip posted to the outlet’s Twitter account, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed host asks viewers in Arabic for their ideas on stories she should cover. "Fedha is a popular, old Kuwaiti name that refers to silver", says deputy editor Abdullah Boftain. "We always imagine robots to be silver and metallic in colour, so we combined the two". But there is nothing robotic looking about Fedha, who is modelled more along lines of a Fox News female TV presenter than the metal-clad feminine robot first portrayed in the classic film Metropolis.
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Magically Transforming Google Search
Google is set to publicly test a more deeply AI-enhanced search engine next month as it attempts to counter Bing’s increasing adoption. The company is planning a public release of the tool in early May and in a limited capacity. Around one million people will be allowed access to the project’s features and around 30 million users are expected to have access by the end of the year. When Microsoft recently enhanced its Bing search engine with OpenAI’s GPT, the release reportedly set off alarm bells at Google due to the risks it posed to its core search and advertising business. Since then, Google has been working to advance its own AI-powered features for its search engine under a project codenamed Magi, according to reports citing internal documents. Ads will continue to be shown in search results generated by Magi, especially those that could lead to a financial transaction. Magi will simply focus on improving Google’s existing search engine features with AI capabilities.
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Generative AI Not Yet Trustworthy
When ChatGBT doesn't know the answer, does it just make stuff up?
Reporting on BBC Radio 4's PM programme this week, host Evan Davis asked ChatGPT about recently deceased Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman, and was told the 78 year old TV star had choreographed the film Dirty Dancing. Asked to double check this surprising information, ChatGPT replied: "So sorry, I'm afraid I got that wrong". All very lackadaisical, surely, when a straightforward search on Google or Bing makes no association between Len Goodman and any Hollywood musical, but immediately does provide the correct answer to the Dirty Dancing choreography question: The iconic routines were the work of famed dance and film director Kenny Ortega.
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Search Engine Of The Month
Luxxle is a uniquely different search engine that offers the option to filter results through what it calls Lenses that can be tuned to suit the user's political leaning - left or right - or their prerred content sources, such as Mainstream Media or Wiki Sources. "Lenses allow you to filter results to better match the way you see the world" according to Luxxie. Users can also decide to keep on or turn off mainstream media sources altogether and to choose how to sort content, via the Luxxle algorithm, alphabetically, or freshest first.
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