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[Link] Night Vision: Now In Color

Read: 10/4/2022 hackaday.com

We’ve all gotten used to seeing movies depict people using night vision gear where everything appears as a shade of green.

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[Link] Facebook Shuts Down Massive Photo Tagging Facial Recognition Program

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

For years, photo tagging was a core Facebook feature and was one of the main things people “did” on Facebook. To tag a photo, you clicked a specific part of it and wrote in the name of your friend.

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[Link] Extracting Data From Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money

Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com

[Kevin Norman] got himself a smart body scale with the intention of logging data for his own analysis, but discovered that extracting data from the device was anything but easy. It turns out that the only way to access data from his scale is by viewing it in a mobile app.

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[Link] ESP32-Cam Makes A Dandy Motion Detector

Read: 24/10/2021 hackaday.com

Halloween is right around the corner and just about every Halloween project needs some kind of motion sensor. Historically, we’ve used IR and ultrasonic sensors but [Makers Mashup] decided to use an ESP32-Cam as a motion sensor in his latest animatronic creation.

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[Link] We Tried the Viral TikTok Face Mask That Makes You Look Old

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

In our quest for glowing, youthful skin and hair, we’ve tried it all. We’ve consulted skin care savants, we’ve oiled our pubes, and we’ve spelunked through Sephora sales.

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[Link] Apple Introduces Parental Control Feature That Scans Messages for Nudity

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

Apple plans to introduce a new feature that would scan messages sent to and by child users of iPhones to determine if the images contain nudity, the company announced on Thursday. The move is a major development in the ongoing debate around privacy and the inspection of communications.

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[Link] New ML-based console cheat puts the AI in ‘aim assist’

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

Tristan covers human-centric artificial intelligence advances, politics, queer stuff, cannabis, and gaming.

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[Link] DARPA flings cash at FENCE — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change

Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com

The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it will fund development of a new type of “event-based” camera that only transmits information about pixels that have changed.

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