Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: DNA and facial recognition; Teslas’ new factory; 5G interferes with weather forecasting; Facebook and voice patterns; Game of Thrones, by a bot.
Can we match DNA and facial recognition?
A team of Belgian and American engineers just developed something similar. Using what they know about how DNA shapes the human face, the researchers built an algorithm that scans through a database of images and selects the faces that could be linked to the DNA found at a crime scene. Read more…
Tesla’s Giga 3 factory in Shanghai is being built in months
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