Title: Snap, Polish, Post: Why Selfies May Be Bad for Your Health
Category: Health News
Created: 8/7/2018 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/7/2018 12:00:00 AM
Google, once again, is excited about social media. But not in the ways you might think; this isn’t about another in a failed string of chat apps, or the knockout success that never was in Google Plus. Instead, it’s an entirely new way of recognizing human faces, and one made possible by — you guessed it — creeping on your social media profiles. In a recently approved patent, Google detailed a system of “Facial Recognition with Social Network Aiding.” It’s exactly what it sounds like, an attempt to parse social connections as a way to better identify your mug. Reverse…
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When I stumbled across this hilarious parody account on Twitter, I lost 30 minutes of my workday to laughter. It’s called @movie_goofs, and it tweets joke criticisms of movie “mistakes.” Back to the Future (1985)Anachronism Marty McFly drives a DeLorean DMC-12 in 1955, but the DeLorean was first manufactured in 1981. (inspired by @citizen_sane) — movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 28, 2018 (by @rygorous)The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)Revealing mistakes When Gonzo is thrown out of a production company’s office during “You Can’t Take No for an Answer”, his arms flop around in anatomically-impossible ways, revealing the shot was filmed using a lifeless…
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Despite being banned by four massive tech companies — Apple, Spotify, Facebook, and YouTube — Alex Jones’ Infowars app has shot to the top of the News lists on both major app storefronts with the speed of a champagne cork in the last day. The fact the app itself exists is likely thanks to some vague guidelines from Apple and Google regarding what kinds of apps it will allow — guidelines that appear to be separate from those that got Jones’ show banned from the companies’ platforms in the first place. The bans, which came to light yesterday, almost all came about…
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