Introducing: VASA-1 by Microsoft Research.

TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.

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So Brexiters are planning to order our troops to break human rights!
'British troops could be ordered to help operate migrant deportation flights to Rwanda after the Government left the door open to use the Armed Forces in the asylum scheme.'
#HumanRights
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It’s almost impossible to believe this world - this NHS - existed. Less than 20 years ago

The level of stupidity & ignorance displayed by Luke Johnson is staggering. This kind of denial & nonsensical rhetoric serves no purpose in a balanced debate. We have to make lying wrong again. As ever, well done Chris Packham for communicating the truth.

Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants bit.ly/3UboG9M

It seems that the approval of aid for Ukraine by the US Congress came as a big surprise to Russia.

Judging by their reaction, they had no plan B and believed there would be no help. But, it turns out that now Ukraine and the West are destroying the remnants of the high-tech part

The BBC once again both sidesing climate science by putting up unqualified bakery owner Luke Johnson to argue the 'other side'.

It’s beginning to look like I’ve lost another warship to a country without a navy in a land war.

I remain a master strategist.

Our scientists help us see the wild, incredible beauty of the universe.
(twin stars surrounded by a post-collision nebula, from ESO. Details: tinyurl.com/56wxsb69)

While it's important to engage with those who disagree, as a former Physics teacher I'll always stand up for the science.

Tackling climate change means investing in new technologies, driving innovation.

Failing to take the risk seriously would simply be catastrophic.

Rishi Sunak - smaller with every passing day - must be truly desperate if he thinks 'Stop The Cripples' is going to win him the election

Loathsome

#SickNoteSunak

Help for disabled people in England and Wales to get jobs is axed amid benefits crackdown theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

We need a just transition away from fossil fuels to help us hit Net Zero . You don't make that happen with 100 new oil and gas licenses , a new coal mine , or by tearing up plans to tackle vehicle emissions & phase out gas boilers – that's why I'm taking the Government to court .

Another piece by @jennybloomfield for your #FoxOfTheDay

Feel the same way about inaction from our leaders on climate and biodiversity collapse ?

We have a BIG announcement coming on Wednesday in what we hope will be the largest ever UK mobilisation of people for nature .

Signup to hear it first chrispackh.am/signup

#bbclaurak

Blackbird singing at dusk. 😍
Taken yesterday in my Somerset village. 😊🐦

You know spring has arrived when you see a woodland awash with bluebells💙

These bell-shaped beauties are a bumblebee buffet🐝🍴

They are also a sign of ancient woodland–woods that have existed since at least 1600 and provide one of the UK’s most valuable, biodiverse habitats🌳

The nuthatch apartment remodelling still continues……
Where is that mud going to extend to next???
😱
#GwylltHollow #Nuthatches

Unsure why Laura Kuenssberg had a climate sceptic on this morning. Luke Johnson has referred to 'the 'climate emergency' delusion' and 'the green elite’s fake claim that there’s a ‘climate emergency’'. What qualifications does a bakery owner have to pontificate on climate on the bbc?

What's hilariously idiotic is that the very people who were...

- absolutely wrong about the very possibility of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
- absolutely wrong about the Ukrainian morale and popular support of national independence and sovereignty
- absolutely wrong