Identify the music playing around you. Explore the music you love. Discover songs, lyrics, and artists on Shazam. The original developer of the app, Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee. On September 24, 2018, the company was acquired by Apple for a reported $400 million.
The Origin of Shazam. Created in 1939 by artist C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, Shazam became synonymous with magic, and his first appearance was in Whiz Comics #2 from February 1940–notably there was never a Whiz Comics #1. Shazam was introduced as an acronym for the immortal elders with whom Billy Batson shared his superhuman powers. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, “Shazam” is a word invented for the Captain Marvel comic books in 1940. 1 Captain Marvel was created by writer Bill Parker and artist C.C. Beck, first appearing in the 1940 publication Whiz Comics. Australia has invented Shazam for spiders And it's about damn time.
In Australia we’re getting creative when it comes to hanging with animals...
In Australia we’re getting creative when it comes to hanging with animals
Scientists have invented a new app that can identify all Australian species of spiders and snakes from photos.Source:istock
Australian scientists have invented a new app that can identify all local species of snakes and spiders.
The app works in a similar way to Shazam, which ingeniously tells you which song is playing by listening and matching it. The Critterpedia app, a collaboration between the CSIRO and Data61, uses a photo you upload to match with hundreds of thousands of images from their database. Their artificially intelligent (AI) algorithm can then identify the spider or snake down to the family, genus or species.
“The AI platform considers not only these images, but also additional information, like GPS location,” the CSIRO wrote on its blog.
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The Critterpedia app can identify spiders like this deadly funnel-web.Source:istock
The app can also identify snakes.Source:istock
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Dr Matt Adcock, a researcher from Data61, who led the Critterpedia project, said the differences between species can be “quite subtle”.
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“To teach the platform, hundreds of thousands of images of snakes and spiders were fed into the system. It was a sizeable task uniquely perfect for an AI solution,” he said.
“We need a great deal of training data to adequately identify critters.”
The developers hope the app will educate people and potentially save lives.