Aug 03
The “Star Wars” cast looks fierce, even in miniature form.
Aug 03
The month’s low was still a sweltering 89 degrees. The highest: 127.
Aug 03
The files you share online tend to linger around in the cloud. But what if you don’t like the possibility that someone might swipe your files after you’re done? Mozilla is offering an answer — it just introduced an experimental website, Send, that…
Aug 03
Aug 03
The role of Planetary Protection Officer features a six-digit salary ― and likely some pretty sweet business cards.
Aug 03
The web browser has long ceased being just a way to browse web pages. Google Chrome has proven we can live our entire computing lives inside the browser (or at least a browser engine), and some actually do that day to day. Mozilla, of course, isn’t going to take things sitting down. It has revealed three new to Test Pilot … Continue reading
Aug 03
LG has a rather amusing practice of making leaks practically useless in the long run. Given enough time, LG itself will spill the beans of its newest smartphone flagship in the weeks leading to its launch. This is again the case with the LG V30, which is expected to be unveiled by the end of the month. LG has come … Continue reading
Aug 03
Look for another super-sized OLED phone on the way from LG soon, as it has just announced a flagship device built around a 6-inch FullVision display to match the G6 and Q6. While LG has established leadership in TVs with its OLED screens, so far they…
Aug 03
A popular rumor of the upcoming iPhone 8 is that Apple could actually be introducing a new security measure for the phone. At the moment the iPhone allows users to authenticate themselves using a passcode or using their fingerprint to unlock their devices and make payments, but facial recognition is apparently a new feature.
In fact not too long ago Apple might have actually confirmed it by accident, and recently it seems that inside of the HomePod firmware that was released not too long ago, more evidence has been uncovered that Apple might have some kind of facial recognition system in the works that has since been referred to as “Face ID”, which could be used to authenticate payments made with Apple Pay.
Now color us skeptical, but facial recognition isn’t new and as we have seen in the past, some systems can be fooled by using a photograph, which obviously is not the most secure method around. However some are saying that the iPhone 8 could employ the use of infrared/3D laser scanners to make the system more robust and secure compared to existing systems. Whether or not that is true remains to be seen.
Other rumors have suggested that Face ID could be on track to replace Touch ID, and since the iPhone 8 supposedly lacks a home button, the jury is still out on whether Touch ID will be built into the screen, on the back of the phone, or into the power button, but either way take it all with a grain of salt.
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Aug 03
What makes a good photo? Or rather, what makes for a good selfie? Is taking a good selfie an art form, or is there science behind it? Perhaps a bit of both, and if the researchers at the University of Waterloo have it their way, perhaps soon our smartphones and cameras could even give us directions and instructions on how to snap the best selfie.
The researchers have recently put together an algorithm in which it is apparently capable of determining the best selfie. How the algorithm was put together involved thousands of Mechanical Turk workers to rate artificial selfies to find the best choice across three different factors, such as lighting direction, face size, and position, and from there they created an app that would help act as a director of sorts to the user when it came to taking selfies.
They then asked real people to then try taking selfies with and without the app, and apparently based on the feedback they got from the raters on Mechanical Turk, they found a 26% improvement in the ratings in the selfies taken with the app, compared to those taken without the app.
One of the study’s co-authors Dan Vogel writes, “This is just the beginning of what is possible. We can expand the variables to include variables aspects such as hairstyle, types of smile or even the outfit you wear. When it comes to teaching people to take better selfies, the sky’s the limit.”
Researchers Develop Algorithm To Help Improve Our Selfies , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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