Facebook has been working on facial recognition for years to auto-tag photographs, but has now reached a point where its technology is ‘ closely approaching human-level performance .’ In fact, in some ways it might even be better. Read more…
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Facebook’s Facial Recognition ‘Approaching Human-Level Performance’
Qedward writes “Volvo is starting a pilot project that aims to have 100 self-driving cars on Swedish public roads around the city of Gothenburg by 2017. The project is called ‘Drive Me’ and is a joint initiative between the Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City of Gothenburg, Volvo said Monday. Together they will make an effort to eliminate deadly car crashes in Sweden, said Erik Coelingh, technical specialist at Volvo Car Group. In the next few years, Volvo will develop its Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) in its XC90 model. The goal is to have the first self-driving cars available to 100 consumers by 2017, Coelingh said. They will be able let their cars navigate about 50 typical commuter arteries that include motorway conditions and frequent traffic jams in and around Gothenburg, the country’s second largest city.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Volvo Plans To Have Self-Driving Cars In Swedish Capital Gothenburg By 2017
An anonymous reader writes “After all the revelations about NSA’s spying efforts, and especially after the disclosure of details about its Bullrun program aimed at subverting encryption standards and efforts around the world, the question has been raised of whether any encryption software can be trusted. Security experts have repeatedly said that it you want to trust this type of software, your best bet is to choose software that is open source. But, in order to be entirely sure, a security audit of the code by independent experts sounds like a definitive answer to that issue. And that it exactly what Matthew Green, cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Kenneth White, co-founder of hosted healthcare services provider BAO Systems, have set out to do. The software that will be audited is the famous file and disk encryption software package TrueCrypt. Green and White have started fundraising at FundFill and IndieGoGo, and have so far raised over $50, 000 in total.” (Mentioned earlier on Slashdot; the now-funded endeavor is also covered at Slash DataCenter.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit
sciencehabit writes “A software company called Vicarious claims to have created a computer algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA with greater than 90% accuracy. If true, the advance would represent a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. It would also mean that the internet will have to start looking for a new security system. The problem, however, is that Vicarious has provided little evidence for its claims, though some well-known scientists are behind the work.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System
Last night, Star Wars: Episode VII cinematographer Dan Mindel announced that the J.J. Abrams-directed movie will be shot on 35mm film, as opposed to digital video. The decision symbolizes the changing of the guard from the reign of George Lucas, and hopefully adds some much-needed vigor to the beloved franchise. Read more…
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The New Star Wars Will Be Shot on Film, Which Is Probably Great
Twitter is lighting up with a backlash against the choice from prominent Christians. [Read more]
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Google Cesar Chavez doodle on Easter ignites furor
The social network is rumored to be amping up its video ads by adding in autoplay, audience targeting, and video expansion. [Read more]
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