Facebook’s ‘Tag Your Friends’ feature uses faceprints Broadly, face recognition works by measuring people’s faces and assigning them a “faceprint.” In this particular study, the software was shown the faceprints of men and women who identified themselves as gay or straight. It found patterns and then, when shown pictures it had never seen before, it…

Image: Aurora Torres, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Summer is coming to an end, and you may be thinking fondly back to times spent lounging on a beach, soft white sand flowing between your fingers and toes as you napped under the Sun. Well, forget relaxing and start worrying, baby! Researchers writing in the…

Image Source: Rotten Tomatoes Hollywood is struggling through a particularly rough financial patch at the moment, and it’s throwing blame in every direction. Its favorite target over the last ten years has been technological disruption. Netflix, home theaters, and MoviePass have all been cited as box office grim reapers. The latest target, Rotten Tomatoes, is…

Photo: Getty In April, the US Department of Labor accused Google of gender pay discrimination. The tech behemoth denied the allegations, and when the DoL requested historical salary records from the company, Google argued that the endeavor was too expensive. Lucky for Google, good samaritans at the company have led efforts to compile the wage…

Photo: Getty Virginia’s Board of Elections voted unanimously to decertify all of the state’s touchscreen voting machines, which are considered by cybersecurity experts to be vulnerable to manipulation by hackers. The race is now on to replace the machines, which are used in 22 counties, before Virginia’s elections in November. Industry experts and and the…