How Do Computers Recognize Human Faces?
Associate Professor Dr. Michel Valstar explains how the computer discerns faces, features and our expressions.

July 8, 2015 at 09:18AM
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How To Break Into the CIA’s Cloud on Amazon
Looking to steal America’s spy data from Amazon? Hope you’re up for a challenge.

July 8, 2015 at 08:35AM
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Seasteading Institute aims to build floating city by 2020
The Seasteading Institute says the development of floating cities is the first step in fulfilling what it calls the “8 Great Moral Imperatives,” which include feeding the hungry, enriching the poor, curing the sick, cleaning the atmosphere, restoring the oceans, living in balance with nature, powering civilization sustainably and and putting an end to fighting.

July 7, 2015 at 09:56PM
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Forget ‘Deep Dream,’ Google’s ‘Deep Stereo’ Can Recreate the Real World
Google engineers are using their layered artificial neural network, also called a deep network, to create unseen views from two or more images of a scene. They call it “Deep Stereo.”

July 7, 2015 at 07:55PM
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Watch Opportunity Rover’s 11 Year, 26 Mile Journey In 8 Minutes
This compilation of images from hazard-avoidance cameras on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between January 2004 and April 2015 shows the rover’s-eye-view of the Martian marathon covering 26.2 miles(42.2 kilometers) from its landing location. A map of the rover’s path is on the right.

July 7, 2015 at 05:40PM
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How the Tech Press Forces a Narrative on Companies it Covers
The tech press moves like clockwork, fitting company narratives into a predictable arc. Here’s how pros deal with it.

July 7, 2015 at 05:23PM
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Robots Might Save the Humanities
After all, what will we do with our time? How will we live lives of meaningful leisure?

July 7, 2015 at 04:26PM
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Someone Laser-Etched A Tortilla So It Could Play Music On A Turntable
People love the crisp fidelity of vinyl, but for crispiness, nothing is going to beat a goddamn tortilla.

July 7, 2015 at 04:05PM
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The Mob’s IT Department
How two technology consultants helped drug traffickers hack the Port of Antwerp.

July 7, 2015 at 03:18PM
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Inside the Nuclear Bunker Where America Preserves Its Movie History
If the film is rare, highly flammable, and was made before 1951, there’s a good chance it’ll end up on George Willeman’s desk. Or more specifically, in one of his vaults.

July 7, 2015 at 11:38AM
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