My weekly blog post
My weekly blog post I appreciate regular readers of my weekly blog post and especially those who share the posts with others. The process I have used to deliver posts to you and another 1,000 subscribers is about to go through a major change. I will explain this below, but I thought I […]
Podcasting
Podcasting In the pre-dawn of the internet age, a new kind of voice crackled through the wires. It wasn’t the smooth tones of radio DJs or the formal pronouncements of news anchors. This was something different, a rebellion against the one-way flow of information. In the 1980s, audio blogging emerged, a whisper of a concept […]
Reenactment and Deepfakes by John R. Patrick
Reenactment and Deepfakes by John R. Patrick Written: April 2023 Facial recognition issues go much broader and deeper than surveillance. A team of researchers funded by the German Research Foundation published a paper called, “Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos“. What the researchers have done is mind boggling. They call it facial […]
Facial Recognition in China by John R. Patrick
Facial Recognition in China Written: April 2023 Fortune Magazine published an article about facial recognition in China. The title was “Every Step You Take, They’ll Be Watching You”. You might think with a population of 1.4 billion, it would be hard to conduct surveillance over such a large numbers of people. It actually is not […]
Cut the Cable
Cable, TV, Hollywood, media distributors, publishers, and related parties are having continuous discussions about the future of streaming video. I call them the Protectorate. Their goal is to protect their turf, not to give consumers what they want. If we could analyze the conversations, I am quite sure most things discussed are about how to […]
