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Video: F U, Instagram — here’s how to delete or deactivate your account

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by on July 30, 2019 at 1:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Social Media


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Ugh, Instagram. I remember when the social network was fun, when it was just filled with cool pictures and didn’t know anyone on there. Now? Barely an hour goes by without someone I have a simmering resentment towards posting a bragging photo that’s meant to shroud their dull, pointless life, driving me into bubbling resentment. Or, maybe, you just don’t like how long you spend on there. Whatever your beef with Instagram is, we’ve put…

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Video: F U, Instagram — here’s how to delete or deactivate your account

Jul30
by on July 30, 2019 at 1:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Social Media


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Ugh, Instagram. I remember when the social network was fun, when it was just filled with cool pictures and didn’t know anyone on there. Now? Barely an hour goes by without someone I have a simmering resentment towards posting a bragging photo that’s meant to shroud their dull, pointless life, driving me into bubbling resentment. Or, maybe, you just don’t like how long you spend on there. Whatever your beef with Instagram is, we’ve put…

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Or just read more coverage about: Instagram

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This AI detects 11 types of emotions from a selfie

Jul30
by on July 30, 2019 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


The machine learning models that can detect our face and movements are now part of our daily lives with smartphone features like face unlocking and Animoji. However, those AI models can’t predict how we feel by looking at our face. That’s where EmoNet comes in. Researchers from the University of Colorado and Duke University have developed the neural net that can accurately classify images in 11 emotional categories. To train the model, researchers used 2,187 videos that were clearly classified into 27 distinct emotion categories including anxiety, surprise, and sadness.  The team extracted 137,482 frames from these videos and then excluded sets of…

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This AI detects 11 types of emotions from a selfie

Jul30
by on July 30, 2019 at 12:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


The machine learning models that can detect our face and movements are now part of our daily lives with smartphone features like face unlocking and Animoji. However, those AI models can’t predict how we feel by looking at our face. That’s where EmoNet comes in. Researchers from the University of Colorado and Duke University have developed the neural net that can accurately classify images in 11 emotional categories. To train the model, researchers used 2,187 videos that were clearly classified into 27 distinct emotion categories including anxiety, surprise, and sadness.  The team extracted 137,482 frames from these videos and then excluded sets of…

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How movies got (kinda) less sexist over 129 years

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by on July 30, 2019 at 12:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, newsletter


It wasn’t until 1985 when people finally started talking about how Hollywood represented women in film. Usually whenever there was a woman character in a movie, and the writers had actually bothered to give her a name, chances are she rarely spoke to another woman — and if she did, it was probably about a man.  Enter the Bechdel Test, a simple tool that measures gender bias in movies by analyzing three things: Are there any named female characters? And if so, Do these female characters talk to each other? And If so, Do these female characters talk about something other than a man?…

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