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The face animation technology itself is impressive enough — if you set aside the ethics of encouraging people to drag their long-lost relatives into the uncanny valley to help MyHeritage cross-sell DNA testing with all the massive privacy considerations around putting that kind of data in the hands of a commercial entity.

Looking at the inquisitive face of my great-grandmother I do have to wonder what she would have made of all this? The facial animation feature is powered by Israeli company D-ID , a TechCrunch Disrupt battlefield alum — which started out building tech to digitally de-identify faces with an eye on protecting images and video from being identifiable by facial recognition algorithms.

Watch this video. You might want to know whether or not you're related to other famous people. Can AncestryDNA tell you if you're connected to other famous people?

I went and looked at the Ancestry DNA website and did a quick perusal of everything on it. I don't find a single list of famous people that I'm related to. But don't fret. That doesn't mean Ancestry is not going to tell you that you're related to famous people.

However, there's a caveat. The celebrities have to have tested and made their results publicly searchable. This pertains to living famous people that you might be related to and if they'll show up on your DNA match list.

While you're probably not going to find too many extremely famous people in your DNA match list, you might find some notable people.

Now he's not a, you know, super big-name actor. But the fact of the matter is he has an IMDB page.