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The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?
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The Indian government has played down fears of mass surveillance in response to concerns that its proposed facial recognition system lacks adequate oversight.
Replying to a legal notice filed by the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a Delhi-based non-profit that works on digital liberties, the country’s National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) defended the move, stating it doesn’t interfere with privacy of citizens as it “only automates the existing police procedure of comparing suspects’ photos with those listed in LEA’s [Law Enforcement Agency] databases.”
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Fed up with slow internet, Michaelston-y-Fedw residents took matters into their own hands
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LEGO has partnered with the austrian research institute for artificial intelligence to create audio and braille building instructions.
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Born and raised in Sweden, Simone has been building things since she was a child. Today, she runs a YouTube channel with nearly 2 million subscribers who eagerly anticipate her next “shitty robot”. We caught up with Simone to chat making things fail on purpose, getting bored and undergoing treatment for two brain tumours online.
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Wired
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I spent a couple weeks watching the social network's video channel. The shows there were very engaging … perhaps too engaging.
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Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened.
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The Next Web
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In the past couple of years, photo editing software has evolved a lot. With new AI capabilities, it’s now easier to manipulate snaps according to your need. But this new AI made by the researchers from MIT and IBM lets you add, edit, or remove an object just with a click.
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Google's video game streaming service could be amazing, but can your internet handle it?
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What happens when free, open-source software can diagnose us as well as doctors?
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A comprehensive list of websites to download music from all types of genres for free.
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Will we still be able to upload online content and news – and what about memes?
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Hongkiat
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Today's Internet allows an array of mediums for sharing files across different platforms. However, sharing large files still has its limits. Most email
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The free tool Jpeg.io lets anyone convert their existing images into optimized JPEG files without any software. You simply upload your images and the
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Wired
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In 2013, a young computational biologist named Yaniv Erlich shocked the research world by showing it was possible to unmask the identities of people listed in anonymous genetic databases using only an Internet connection. Policymakers responded by restricting access to pools of anonymized biomedical genetic data. An NIH official said at the time, “The chances of this happening for most people are small, but they’re not zero.”
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The European Parliament just vote 'yes' on the most controversial parts of the new Copyright Reform — opponents fear for the free internet.
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dutch start-up bagtag proposes a modern solution of the constant overcrowding of the airports — the new device, which connects to your smartphone with bluetooth, lets you check in your luggage online. bagtag replaces the loose paper labels and shows your luggage information, saving your time usually spent in queues.
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To Taste wants to give recipe credit where credit is due.
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Google Photos just got either a bit cooler or a lot creepier, depending on how you see things. The photo-sharing service has long offered facial recognition, making it easier for users to categorize photos they upload. Today, that technology goes beyond humans and to the entire animal world. Yes, Google Photos is now able to recognize your pets—and not just that they are animals. It’s able group specific animals by name so you can keep track of individual pets.
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