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Copresence Sets New Industry Standard for Cost-Effective Avatar Solutions

Copresence Sets New Industry Standard for Cost-Effective Avatar Solutions

ZURICH — COPRESENCE AG (“copresence”), a pioneer in digital avatar technology, has today announced a significant breakthrough in the balance of quality, efficiency, and cost in the avatar generation process. The company’s innovation sets a new industry standard, offering unparalleled value in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

The digital avatar market has traditionally been dominated by either high-end, resource-intensive solutions from major tech giants, or simplistic cartoon-style avatars. Whilst these high-end avatars may look impressive, their creation involves highly expensive camera setups that are not accessible to the average consumer. Furthermore, subjects may need to sit for hours at a time in order to get fully scanned. On the other hand, the more simplistic avatars lack the level of realism required to create a truly believable likeness.

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Copresence’s technology bridges this gap by delivering photorealistic avatars that rival the quality of top industry players at a

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Parker: Calgary-based NanosTech set to transform oilsands industry

Parker: Calgary-based NanosTech set to transform oilsands industry

The benefits are expected to be great

Published Dec 18, 2023  •  Last updated Dec 18, 2023  •  3 minute read

Pedro Pereira-Almao is co-founder of NanosTech, a Calgary-based technology firm. Photo by Courtesy, NanosTech. /Postmedia Network

Calgary-based technology company NanosTech is set to transform the Alberta oilsands industry.

The company emerged from the University of Calgary’s Alberta Ingenuity Centre for In Situ Energy, committed to developing leading-edge catalytic solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the energy industry today.

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NanosTech was co-founded by CTO Pedro Pereira-Almao and a group of scientist colleagues as an energy transition company to help producers meet the challenges of climate change. His partners are serial entrepreneurs who have successfully taken emerging technologies to market.

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A New Technology Is Helping To Save The Florida Citrus Industry With A “Shot In The Arm”

A New Technology Is Helping To Save The Florida Citrus Industry With A “Shot In The Arm”

The Cambridge Dictionary defines the familiar idiom, “a shot in the arm” as “something that has a sudden, strong, positive effect on something.” It apparently came into popular language as early as 1916, long before the connection between a “shot” became the delivery method for immunization with the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955. Putting aside the political controversies that have recently risen around getting an injection to prevent COVID infection, there are many beneficial human health therapies that are delivered through an injection (antibiotics, pain medications, cortisone…). There are also reasons that plants can benefit from “getting a shot,” but that has been difficult to do.

Plants get sick too, but unlike humans most of their diseases are caused by fungi

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A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry

A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry

In 1993, Marc Andreessen was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also worked at the US-government funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications. With a colleague, the young software engineer authored the Mosaic web browser, which set the standard for cruising the information superhighway in the 1990s.

Andreessen went on to cofound Netscape Communications, making a fortune in 1999 when the company was acquired by AOL for US$4.3 billion.

Since then, through his venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the outspoken billionaire has become one of the most influential wallets in Silicon Valley. His investments – in companies including Facebook, Foursquare, Github, Lyft, Oculus and Twitter – have definitively shaped tech over the past 15 years. (He once described his approach as “funding imperial, will-to-power people”.)

Because of all this, it’s worth paying attention to Andreessen’s recent “techno-optimist manifesto”. Opening with the

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Mobility technology trends shaping the industry

Mobility technology trends shaping the industry

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5G uses added frequency bands to unlock bandwidth and is roughly 20 times faster than 4G. Contribute to the GeeksforGeeks community and help create better learning resources for all. However, the technical problems faced by borderless, light leakage on the screen, accidental touch on the edges, and more fragile bare screens have all been obstacles to the popularization of this technology. More often, patients can choose not to seek medical treatment in a hospital, and based on the reliability of big data, they can directly solve it remotely.

  • At the same time, it poses security and device management questions that need to address.
  • Tariffs increase prices for imported goods and artificially raise prices for businesses and consumers.
  • These first-generation systems could support far more simultaneous calls but still used analog cellular technology.

5G has higher bandwidth to deliver faster speeds than 4G and can connect more devices, improving the quality … Read more