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Rendering CGI faces that look close to real is hard, but we’re starting to see hardware that can pull it off. Then, the problem becomes the source material; you’ve got to have models that look good enough to pass for real. For that, a new kind of facial scanning is going to come in handy, one that can get detail all the way down to each skin cell.

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Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

It’s not often that smell gets a look-in when it comes to gadgets and technology. That all changes this week with the “scent camera” you see above. But, while you’re thinking about preserving the aroma of those killer cookies you baked, others are wondering what’s going on in the deep, dark sky above. This is alt-week.

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UPDATE 8:33pm:

FlightAware.com reports more than 358 flights have been canceled coming into and out of San Francisco. Flight Aware’s CEO, Daniel Baker, also noted that 70 SFO-bound flights had been diverted away from the airport as a result of the crash, USA Today reports.

PREVIOUSLY: Following a crash landing by Asiana Airlines flight 214 on Saturday morning, San Francisco Airport closed to air traffic. On its Twitter account, the airport stated that two runways will be reopening “shortly.”

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CAIRO — Egypt’s new president moved to assert his authority and regain control of the streets Saturday even as his Islamist opponents declared his powers illegitimate and issued blood oaths to reinstate Mohammed Morsi, whose ouster by the military has led to dueling protests and deadly street battles between rival sides.

But underscoring the sharp divisions facing the untested leader, Adly Mansour, his office said pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei had been named as interim prime minister but later backtracked on the decision saying consultations were continuing. A politician close to ElBaradei said the reversal was due to objections by an ultraconservative Islamist party with which the new administration wants to cooperate.

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By Joe Fortenbaugh, National Football Post

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh sent his coaching staff on summer vacation last month with an expensive reminder of what can be achieved when a first-class organization fires on all cylinders.

The National Football Post has learned from multiple sources within the Baltimore organization that on June 18, the staff’s last day of work before summer vacation, Harbaugh presented each of his assistant coaches with a replica of the team’s 2013 Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy.

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