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Screwing with Microsoft’s age guessing machine is frickin’ hilarious

Apr30
by on April 30, 2015 at 7:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

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In the three-hour keynote of Microsoft’s second day of the Build Developer Conference, one of the more amusing highlights was How-Old.net, an age-guessing algorithm that does what it advertises using face-recognition technology. Although the website warned that the demo does not promise complete accuracy, most have been able to get fairly reasonable results. (I turn 26 later this year, this photo was taken a month before my 25th birthday). Others? Not so much. Nailed it. http://t.co/Mf6PCn5iAW @rwaggoner pic.twitter.com/Fqbb1jYZ54 — Lauren Cunningham (@LaurenSlypig) April 30, 2015 As with most computer algorithms, you can totally game the whole system if you wanted…

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Kendall Jenner versus a graffiti drone: the age of airborne vandalism begins!

Apr30
by on April 30, 2015 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, DJI Phantom 2, drones, Kendall Jenner, Phantom, Shareables

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EXT: New York City, the early hours of Wednesday morning. A hacked DJI Phantom drone in possession of a can of spray paint tags a Calvin Klein billboard graced by the over exposed visage of Kendall Jenner. New York graffiti artist KATSU 1, Kardashians 0 Wired has the full story on what KATSU is up to. This is only v1.0 of his graffiti drone so authorities needn’t get too worried…yet. Rest assured though, airborne tagging is going to get a lot more common. ➤ KATSU Drone Drawing 2015 on Kendall Jenner [YouTube via Wired]  Read next: Watch This Millennium Falcon Drone Then Build…

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Everything Microsoft announced at Build Developer Conference 2015: Day 2

Apr30
by on April 30, 2015 at 6:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Microsoft has officially wrapped up its second keynote for this year’s Build Developer Conference. Today’s keynote wasn’t as announcement-heavy as the first, but here are the highlights. Windows 10 gets demoed on Arduino and Raspberry Pi This was hinted yesterday during the demo of HoloLens on a Raspberry Pi robot, but today Microsoft went a little further in its demo that ran its Windows 10 OS on both Raspberry Pi and Arduino. The demo focused on using the boards as a way to create “Internet of Things” functionality, such as enabling remote control on an Arduino device or building a camera using the boards to act as a…

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Microsoft Azure gets GitHub Enterprise support

Apr30
by on April 30, 2015 at 6:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Microsoft announced a new partnership to bring GitHub’s Enterprise tools to Azure during its Build developer conference today. Although GitHub is popular hub for programmers to access open-source code, larger companies have taken to using the platform’s enterprise features for managing their own code. GitHub recently began supporting Amazon Web Services in an update November of last year, so a move to support Azure as well isn’t a huge surprise. Additionally, developers will now be able to open GitHub repositories right from Visual Studio or easily load the code into Visual Studio right from a button right on GitHub’s website.…

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Microsoft built a fun tool that guesses your age

Apr30
by on April 30, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Today at Microsoft BUILD the company showed off a tiny tool that guesses your age based on a photo, built to demo the capabilities of Azure. All you need to do is upload a photo and the tool will analyze your face to guess your age. On the first attempt for me, how-old.net overshot by far too much (I’m 24). The second time, it guessed 32. Not entirely accurate for me, but for others on Twitter they’re finding it to be entirely accurate. I’ll go and buy some anti-wrinkle cream now, I guess. You can read a detailed post on how…

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