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Solar Eclipse 20 May 2012

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andrewgreene: Composite image from the new ALMA radio telescope. One part of the image is 75 million light-years away.
theatlantic: Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying With Carnegie Mellon’s cloud-centric new mobile app, the process of matching a casual snapshot with a person’s online identity takes less than a minute. Tools like PittPatt and other cloud-based facial recognition services rely on finding publicly available pictures of you online, whether it’s a profile image for social networks like Facebook and Google Plus or from something more official from a company website or a college athletic portrait. In their most recent round of facial recognition studies, researchers at Carnegie Mellon were able to not only match unidentified profile photos from a dating website (where the vast majority of users operate pseudonymously) with positively identified Facebook photos, but also match pedestrians on a North American college campus with their online identities. The repercussions of these studies go far beyond putting a name with a face; researchers Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross, and Fred Stutzman anticipate that such technology represents a leap forward in the convergence of offline and online data and an advancement of the “augmented reality” of complementary lives. With the use of publicly available Web 2.0 data, the researchers can potentially go from a snapshot to a Social Security number in a matter of minutes The Internet never forgets a face. Read more at The Atlantic
latimes: A new app shows where L.A. chefs are eating. Wouldn’t that be at home? I mean, I’m no chef but am a pretty good cook and I find I like my cooking over most restaurants. Granted, I’m not going out to $50/person places but still, if I can make the same thing cheaper and it tastes better, I’m going to stay home. And that way, I don’t have to be around all those people, either. Bleah!
comicallyvintage: Some Apple fans took Steve Jobs retirement harder than others. *************** Everybody go follow today’s clever Caption This winner chaosgeneration!  Yay.


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