- Viber — more and more people are wanting to talk to me via this, rather than Skype or direct phone call (req. wifi). Can’t tell whether massive disruptor or toy.
- Who Killed Videogames — “The players will come for the cute characters, and stay for the cruel mathematics.”
- Visual Diffs for Open Source Hardware — just what it says.
- Facebook Face Recognition Study — take profile photos from dating sites, facial-recognition match against Facebook photos to find identity, use to predict interests and social security numbers.
ENTRIES TAGGED "facial recognition"
Four short links: 7 October 2011
Telco-less Mobile Calls, Videogames, Open Source Hardware, Facial Recognition
Pseudonymity will increasingly disappear
Once we accept a new technological reality, we can come to grips with what to do about it.
An article in "The Atlantic" takes a look at recent facial recognition studies at Carnegie Mellon.
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