MIT's computer algorithms can tell why you're smiling better than a human can

Source: The Verge

While some recent studies have found that investment in facial recognition technologies hasn't yet yielded great success, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continue to move the ball forward with a system that ...
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Selling Software That Kills

Source: TechCrunch

The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, not to mention slaughtered wholesale.) McAfee and No ...
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A How-To Guide for Boosting Your Mind-Reading Powers

Source: Psychology Today

The eyes and the areas surrounding them are the most expressive region of a person's face. Once you learn to read the person's emotions through the eyes, you're only a few small steps from predicting that person's behavior. An angry boss won't gran ...
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Source: The Good Men Project

The conference hall was brilliantly lit. As we waited for the first speaker of the day to deliver the keynote address, I marveled at the fantastic location for the conference. This was the first conference of this type and they spared no expense to ...
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What It Means That Computers Can Tell These Smiles Apart, But You Can't

Source: The Atlantic

Computer algorithms can now discern the meaning behind humans' facial expressions. The four people above are taking part in a clinical experiment. In the screenshots shown here, each guy is smiling once out of deli ...
Full article at: The Atlantic  More like this  13 hours ago, 7:07am CDT

Immigrant Tracking Moves Deeper Into Realm of SciFi

Source: New America Media

Immigrant rights groups in Los Angeles are reporting that LAPD officers used handheld devices to scan the fingerprints of day laborers on the street corners. The incident, they say, raises serious concerns ...
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News digest – clinical trials, bowel cancer screening, coffee and cancer, and more

Source: Cancer Research UK

Catch up on the cancer news Sunday was International Clinical Trials Day. To mark the occasion, Gareth Griffiths, Scientific Director of our Wales Cancer Trials Unit, wrote us an article about the world-class clinical trials being carried out there. N ...
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What's In A Smile? Turns Out Computers Best Humans At Parsing What's Genuine

Source: WNYC | New York Public Radio

Did you know most people smile when they are frustrated? Look at this picture: The one on the right came from frustration; the one on the left is genuine. But when researchers asked participants to act frustrated, ...
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European Regulators Put Google in the Hot Seat on Privacy Changes

Source: E-Commerce Times

A) IP-addresses and/or B) unique device identifiers and/or C) telephone numbers and/or D) geolocation data." No doubt, Google might have preferred to avoid some of the questions CNIL posed -- such as No. 2: "Plea ...
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