Feb 15
When we first broached the Great Smiley Debate
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Dec 30
Your eyes might tell you differently, your brain might make you believe something else and that gut of yours will say you’re right but you’re not. There is only one person in this video. You will only see one woman’s face. It may look like a different person but it’s not. The magic is in the lighting. Simple lighting changes can change a person’s face so much that they look like different people.
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Jul 06
Rendering CGI faces that look close to real is hard, but we’re starting to see hardware that can pull it off
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Jun 15
University of Canterbury’s researcher Christopher Bartneck has made an obvious discovery: Lego minifigs are not as happy now
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Oct 01
We like to anthropomorphize the objects in our lives, assigning our tools and tech personalities of their own. But some just go ahead and do it for you. The gadgets you are about to see wear their hearts on their sleeves. More »
Sep 21
Facebook shutting down facial recognition in the EU, gets stamp of approval from Ireland DPC
Posted in: Today's Chili 
Earlier this year, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner, a body whose decisions impact Facebook’s policies in Europe at large, made several recommendations to bring the website in line with regional privacy laws, calling for greater transparency on how users’ data is handled and more user control over settings, among other things. The DPC just officially announced that Zuckerberg et al. have for the most part adjusted its policies accordingly. The biggest change involves the facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify Facebook friends in photos and suggest their names for tagging. The social network turned off this functionality for new users in the EU — and it will be shutting it down entirely by October 15th. It’s not like Ireland, home to Facebook’s European HQ, is the first to give the site flack about such features: Germany was having none of it when the site introduced facial recognition last summer.
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Facebook shutting down facial recognition in the EU, gets stamp of approval from Ireland DPC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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