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This AI can search for people by height, gender, and clothing in surveillance videos

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, India


A team of AI researchers from India developed a tool to search for people in surveillance footage by height, clothing color, and gender. It’s like a search engine that can find people in a video. The scientists used deep learning (and Microsoft’s COCO dataset) to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) how to recognize certain human features, called soft biometrics, using computer vision. Basically, you can tell this AI some details about the person you’re looking for and it’ll scour whatever video you give it. For example, a request for “females wearing red shirts who are 153 cm tall” would,…

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This AI can search for people by height, gender, and clothing in surveillance videos

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, India


A team of AI researchers from India developed a tool to search for people in surveillance footage by height, clothing color, and gender. It’s like a search engine that can find people in a video. The scientists used deep learning (and Microsoft’s COCO dataset) to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) how to recognize certain human features, called soft biometrics, using computer vision. Basically, you can tell this AI some details about the person you’re looking for and it’ll scour whatever video you give it. For example, a request for “females wearing red shirts who are 153 cm tall” would,…

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For a limited time, you can get a 2-for-1 discount on TNW2019 tickets

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Tomorrow, on October 23rd at 3pm CEST, we’re going to try something new. For the first time ever, you’ll be able to get any two tickets for the price of one to TNW Conference 2019! This means that no matter your needs, the ticket type that’s suited for you will be available on discount tomorrow! Whether you’re an investor, an entrepreneur, or just simply dig our conference, you’ll find a ticket that suits your needs. Actually, you’ll find two… for the price of one. Mark your calendars, set that alarm, schedule a smoke signal – whatever you need to remind…

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$8M in cryptocurrency bizarrely goes missing from bank-protected wallets

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 3:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Swiss cryptocurrency exchange Trade.io claims hackers have stolen nearly $8M million worth of cryptocurrency directly from its cold storage devices, supposedly kept under lock and key in a bank. The team behind the exchange confirmed the losses in a message posted to its Medium blog on Sunday. “Around 08:40 EST, our security team was alerted to a large transaction from one of our wallets held in cold storage,” the announcement reads. “We can confirm that […] 50M TIO ($7.8M) […] being held in cold storage has been withdrawn, and an estimated 1.3M ($201K) of that had been transferred to both…

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6 reasons why municipalities are getting hammered by cyberattacks

Oct22
by on October 22, 2018 at 2:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


More and more municipalities are becoming victims of hacks. For example in the US, the first half of 2018 has seen many major (or not so major) cities being attacked by bad actors using a variety of methods. In fact, a major attack on Atlanta put every metro official on notice that hackers don’t balk at attacking cities, and it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” they find an opening. Not surprisingly, one of the key entry points for these attacks is (drumroll please) … Phishing! By most accounts, over 90 percent of breaches start with phishing. The criminal…

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