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Google is pretty great at figuring out what a user is saying, but is it any good at knowing who's saying it? Just look at current smart speaker technology, which can be easily fooled. Google might have a pretty simple solution, however. Its researchers have created a deep learning system that is able to single out voices. It does this by literally looking at people's faces when they're talking. First, the researchers trained its system to recognize individual people speaking alone. After which they created virtual noise — adding other people to make a fake crowd — as a way to teach the artificial intelligence to separate various audio tracks into distinct parts and thus allowing the system to recognize which is which. The results are astounding. As seen in the video below, the AI is able to separate the voices of two stand-up comedians even if their individual speeches are overlapping, and it does this just by looking at their faces. The tric

Bolton is likely to push for the creation of a new sectarian state out of Syrian and Iraqi territory, now that the groundwork has been laid and the path largely cleared to building a “new Middle East.” Iran is currently the only country in the region with the potential to foil that plan. by Whitney Webb Part 9 - Bolton dangerous and in a hurry Bolton as Trump’s National Security Adviser not only means that war with Iran is imminent. It is a portent of coming attempts to entirely remake the Middle East in service to Israel’s ambitions and quest to become an “ imperial regional power. ” However, given Bolton’s recent statements, neither war with Iran nor attempts to redraw the borders of the Middle East are events to be delayed to some distant future. Indeed, Bolton recently promised Iranian opposition groups that regime change in Iran would occur before next year. Not only that, but the groundwork for partitioning Iraq and Syria has already been laid, thanks to t

globinfo freexchange Donald Trump's far-right loyal fans must be really pissed off right now after permanently switching himself to pro-war mode with that evil, warmongering triplet in charge and the second bombing against Syria. Even worse, this time he has done it together with Theresa May and the neoliberal globalist Emmanuel Macron. We can tell that by watching the mind-blowing reactions of one of his most fanatic alt-right media supporters: Alex Jones. Jones nearly cried(!) in front of the camera, feeling betrayed from his 'anti-establishment', 'anti-interventionist' idol and declared that he won't support Trump anymore. Well, what did you expect, Alex? A year before the 2016 US national elections, the blog already warned that Trump is a pure product of the neoliberal barbarism , stating that the rhetoric of extreme cynicism used by Trump goes back to the Thatcherian cynicism and the division of people between &q

The former anchor claims the network was in the tank for Hillary Clinton MSNBC anchor-turned-Russia Today host, Ed Schultz, told National Review Monday that he believes he was fired from the left-leaning cable news network because he openly supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary. The network, he claims, was in the tank for Hillary Clinton. The interview itself is fascinating and a shocking look at the inner workings of MSNBC, even if Schultz isn't exactly a reliable narrator. Schultz claims that MSNBC took a heavy hand in dictating what went on air, and that he was often pushed in the direction of a story by higher-ups, even if he felt his audience wouldn't be interested. Schultz says his trouble at MSNBC started when he informed his bosses that he planned to cover Bernie Sanders' campaign announcement live from Vermont, and that he would be airing the first, exclusive, cable network interview with the progressive pr

When will you get the message? Comply, as Jordan, Egypt and others did and we’ll protect your leaders, ensure favorable press, shore up your economy, secure energy needs, and engage your businessmen. In short: abide by our imperial diktat. by Barbara Nimri Aziz Alternative advice to a marginal (but an ambitious) nation determined to follow an independent course might be: build a solid self-sufficient economy; lure home your best expatriate talent in IT, engineering, medical research and media. Having done this, you may survive if: if you keep your head down, if you don’t ally yourself with another strong power, if you abandon all regional ambitions, and if your people don’t try to excel? Above all, never do anything nasty “to your own people” allowing human rights specialists to declare at the appropriate moment, your “threat to humankind”. Whichever is the best strategy for survival, neither Syria nor Iraq found a way to avoid the wrath of the American

Report from last year - see who instantly benefits from airstrikes Raytheon stock surged Friday morning, after 59 of the company’s Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Syria in Donald Trump’s first major military operation as President. Trump ordered the airstrike on the Syrian government Thursday night in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week that killed as many as 100 people. The U.S. blamed the attack on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Tomahawk missile used in the strike is made by Raytheon (rtn, +1.48%), whose stock opened 2.5% higher Friday, adding more than $1 billion to the defense contractor’s market capitalization. The shares of other missile and weapons manufacturers, including Boeing (ba, +0.83%), Lockheed Martin (lmt, +1.04%), Northrop Grumman (noc, +0.58%) and General Dynamics (gd, +0.25%), each rose as much as 1%, collectively gaining nearly $5 billion in market value as

by system failure Anyone who would have been unfortunate enough to be present at the UK parliament yesterday, would have become a witness of a repulsive spectacle. The British PM, Theresa May, was expected to have a tough time facing the members of the parliament about her unprecedented decision to order military action without the approval of the parliament, following the US on the illegal airstrikes against Syria last week. Yet, instead of that, we saw that most of the members unquestionably adopted the story that the Syrian army used chemical weapons against civilians at the time where the last remnants of the jihadists were ready to surrender. Without any clear evidence still. Almost zero resistance against the Iraq war - type lies. The atmosphere inside the House was resembling a bad-directed theatrical play. It would give you the impression that anyone who would dare to challenge the "facts", would have been immediately kicked-out fr

Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claims OPCW used Swiss experts who found traces of a nerve agent used by the west Moscow on Saturday accused the chemical weapons watchdog of manipulating the results of its investigation into the poisoning of a former Russian spy, saying his samples had traces of a nerve agent used by the west. Britain says former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were last month targeted with a nerve agent of the novichok family, which was developed in the Soviet Union. The attack shredded ties between Russia and Britain and led to a crisis in relations between Moscow and the west including a huge wave of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has said it confirmed “ the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical ” without naming the substance involved. On Saturday, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, claimed the UN-linked

“ The need to restart genuine negotiations for peace and an inclusive political settlement of the Syrian conflict, including the withdrawal of all foreign forces, could not be more urgent.” by Jake Johnson With U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly mulling his “options” for a military attack on Syria while continuing to issue belligerent threats on Twitter, U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned the Tory government on Friday for “ waiting for instructions ” from Trump and demanded an immediate resumption of peace talks. “ The need to restart genuine negotiations for peace and an inclusive political settlement of the Syrian conflict, including the withdrawal of all foreign forces, could not be more urgent. We must do everything we can, no matter how challenging, to bring that about, ” Corbyn said in a statement. “ The humanitarian priority must be to halt the killing on all sides. ” Corbyn’s call for negotiations over further military intervent

Bolton is likely to push for the creation of a new sectarian state out of Syrian and Iraqi territory, now that the groundwork has been laid and the path largely cleared to building a “new Middle East.” Iran is currently the only country in the region with the potential to foil that plan. by Whitney Webb Part 8 - Syria and Iraq partition: playing with the map Beyond pushing for regime change in Iran, John Bolton has long demonstrated his commitment to helping Israel and its allies entirely remake the Middle East and thus fundamentally change the region’s balance of power. A key part of this has been the partition of other secular, independent nations in the Middle East, namely Syria and Iraq. It is largely for this reason that Bolton, a major advocate of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, still stands by the disastrous war — because it was an essential precursor to Iraq’s partition. A major part of the groundwork for partition, the invasion of Iraq, and the current Syrian co