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In 2025, Tom Hanks is 67 years old. Yet, in his latest film Here (directed by Robert Zemeckis), he's convincingly transformed to appear as young as 18, and aged even beyond his current years. And the effect actually looks …. good!
But de-aging effects haven’t always looked this good. Attempts at de-aging can be seen as early as 2006 — and since then filmmakers have experimented with tools and had … varying degrees of success. While 2D blurring and enhancement was the first iteration, realistic de-aging in motion required 3D methods — but no matter which way you sliced it, the process remained labor-intensive and results were often somewhere between okay and the uncanny valley.
Here’s VFX supervisor Kevin Baille told me that the current versions of these tools weren’t going to work on Here. There were too many shots, and the results were too inconsistent for the quality level they were striving toward. So the filmmaking team looked elsewhere, to the bleeding edge of AI tools, to see what was possible. By feeding it a wealth of images featuring Tom Hanks and co-stars Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, and Kelly Reilly, they found they could create images that were remarkably realistic, streamlining the once arduous process.
But the true game changer was optimizing the speed of this tool to enable a real-time feed on set. This empowered actors, costume designers, makeup artists, hairstylists, and other crew members to ensure that every version of the characters, at any age, felt authentic and believable.
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A practical guide to your bird flu fears.
In 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, avian flu began aggressively circulating in wildlife. Dead and sick birds began showing up on shorelines. Poultry farms were forced to cull millions of animals, often in horrific ways, to help stop the spread. Egg prices skyrocketed. Farmers lost millions of dollars. The problem doesn’t stop with birds; avian flu has also been found in a wide range of mammals. More than 24,000 sea lions in South America have reportedly died from it. Then, on January 6, 2025, the US reported the first human death. It’s an alarming development, but fortunately an outlier. The truth is avian flu still poses little threat to humans. But if we’re not worried now, when should we be?
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Sources and further reading:
Resources on Avian flu from the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/avian-timeline/2020s.html
For more from the USDA including a map of where it is on farms:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/mammals
For more coverage from Vox:
https://www.vox.com/even-better/370804/bird-flu-h5n1-missouri-human-cows-raw-milk
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/362527/bird-flu-100-million-chickens-dead-risk-humans
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/394511/bird-flu-eggs-human-death-prices-government-response
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/3/24147217/bird-flu-h5n1-chickens-covid-pandemic-cattle-milk-virus-coronavirus
https://www.vox.com/even-better/24145304/bird-flu-h5n1-avian-influenza-pandemic
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24128700/bird-fludairy-meat-industry-h5n1-cows-milk-eggs-safety
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24155545/bird-flu-vaccines-h5n1-avian-flu-cows
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A new AI tool says it can detect similarities in fingerprints that humans can't.
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Fingerprints have long been known to be completely unique. They also don’t change their pattern over your lifetime, making them an extremely useful biometric for identification. Their uniqueness largely comes from how they form in the womb: as waves of skin cells growing in random patterns of ridges under the top layer of skin in our hands and feet.
Fingerprints are so unique that it is considered impossible to match two different fingerprints from the same person — the only way to know for sure is to match a fingerprint to the exact finger. But a new AI tool developed by students at Columbia University says there are more similarities in intra-person, or same person, fingerprints than we’ve previously known.
Sources and further reading:
“Unveiling intra-person fingerprint similarity via deep contrastive learning,” by Gabe Guo et al.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi0329
“The developmental basis of fingerprint pattern formation and variation,” by James D. Glover et al.
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(23)00045-4.pdf
One of the original studies of fingerprints, Francis Galton’s 1892 publication “Finger Prints”
https://archive.org/details/fingerprints00galt/page/n5/mode/2up
"Accuracy and reliability of forensic latent fingerprint decisions," by Bradford T. Ulery et al.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21518906/
Related Vox videos:
Kim's video explaining how your voice is like a fingerprint
https://youtu.be/mp-yVMiIo0A?si=8QyLJkF4WuFBMST9
An oldie but a goodie from Dean about the accuracy of fingerprint analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd8reN4uoBM
Joss's classic documentary on forensics, False Positive
https://youtu.be/EO6kYkoCEsA?si=25m0FKc5SigzP691
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Headlines in October 2024 urged us to throw away our black plastic cooking utensils. The cited study’s findings contained a math error that largely overestimated the risk. The authors issued a correction, but stand by their conclusion. Have you swapped out yours? #Shorts #BlackPlasticSpatula #ToxicChemicals #FlameRetardants
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Digital cameras have driven this change, but not in the way you think.
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Why does it feel like movies today are so much darker than they were before? In this video, we examine how a major technology shift has made cinematographers bolder in their use of shadows.
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2024 saw over 60 elections worldwide, many of which were marked with controversy. It was undoubtedly a divisive year both within and along borders. The war in Ukraine is now in its third year. Syrian rebels toppled the Assad regime after years of fighting. South Korea erupted into chaos after the prime minister declared martial law and was subsequently impeached. In the United States, President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed VP Kamala Harris, who ultimately lost to Donald Trump.
Despite the tumultuous, seemingly never-ending wave of current events people still found escape and unity in the Olympics, Brat summer, and a rambunctious pygmy hippo.
2024 had much of the world voting for change. Onward, to 2025 where we will find out what it means.
Correction: At 4:16 we show the wrong clip of Pope Francis. Our clip shows him visiting Myanmar in 2017 — we meant to include a clip from his 2024 visit to Indonesia.
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