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I'd be lying if I didn't admit that this one creeps me out a bit. A green PC maker out of the United Kingdom (VeryPC) has rigged some facial detection software to work in conjunction with your system's power management features. As in, if the software doesn't "see" that you're in front the screen, looking at it, it will kick the computer or the display into sleep mode. The software, called ...
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Tina Dinsmoor has a different view of the Mississippi River than that of most people.
It's not like the greatest hits of the natural world, a highlight reel of wildlife at their wildest, but images captured by grizzly bear researchers in Northwest Montana do provide fascinating, revealing glimpses of candid wildlife behavior.
Nestle USA is phasing in production of cookie dough again at its Danville plant. The operation was shut down during a federal investigation of whether a 30-state E. coli outbreak was linked to the company’s raw dough. The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that the strain of E. coli found in a sample of raw cookie dough collected at Nestle’s Danville plant does not match the strain that ...
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A new survey shows that there's a big disconnect between scientists and the wider American public, but a new book suggests ways to close the gap.
Channels Oprah The US Patent and Trademark Office published 33 new Apple patent applications on Thursday, bringing the total filed in July to 55 - and we're not even a third of the way through the month.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Secilio Cantu, who pleaded guilty this morning to illegally taking a sturgeon, may have had help transporting the 5-foot fish.
MacRumors notes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published "several dozen" patent applications this morning including an interesting one that covers object and facial recognition, messaging, and voice modulation. Unwired View took a closer look at one patent filed on March 8th, 2008 which describes how Apple could incorporate facial detection and recognition technologies into an ...
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