New Facebook AI fools facial recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:37:19 +0000

The technology – which Facebook won’t use in its own apps – subtly distorts face images so they’re still recognizable, but not to machines.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/98QOXSevUPY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Researchers design tunable, self-recovering dyes for use in next-generation smart devices

Researchers are working to better control how the chemicals respond to treatment, as well as how to reverse the chemicals back to their original state with little to no interference. A team of researchers has achieved such results with a specific compound that can emit light and has potential applications in the next generation of smart devices such as wearable devices and anti-counterfeiting paintings.

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Prisoner's dilemma game reveals cooperation leads to leadership

Game theory has historically studied cooperation and hierarchy, and has sought to explain why individuals cooperate, even though they might be better off not to do so. Researchers now use a specialized graph to map a social network of cooperators and their neighbors; they discovered cooperators can attract more neighbors to follow their behaviors and are more likely to become leaders, indicating different learning patterns exist between cooperators and defectors.

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Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation

Researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system physically pushing hundreds of different objects. Using the dataset — the largest and most diverse of its kind — researchers can train robots to 'learn' pushing dynamics that are fundamental to many complex object-manipulation tasks, including reorienting and inspecting objects, and uncluttering scenes.

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5 big buts about the Pixel 4 phone

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 04:00:00 -0700

Look, I’ll just come out and say it: I’m a big believer in buts.

Now, hang on a sec: You haven’t accidentally stumbled onto the world’s last remaining Sir Mix-a-Lot fan site. (If only!) No, the buts of which I speak at this particular moment are the single “t” variety — as in, the contradictory kinds of statements that are so frequently missing when we talk about technology.

You know what I’m talking about, right? Here in these tribal times of 2019, it’s all too easy to fall into a pattern of seeing a certain sort of product or type of device as being either “awesome” or “inferior,” with little gray space in between those extremes. You’ve used this kind of smartphone for years now, damn it, so it has to be the best! And that other company’s devices are, like, obviously awful. They’re from the competing team! They could never be worth your while.

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