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This AI detects 11 types of emotions from a selfie

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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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CHEAP: Snort and suckle on this Sony Bluetooth speaker’s sounds now it’s HALF PRICE OMFG

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by on July 30, 2019 at 11:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Do you think there should be a limit to how many Bluetooth speakers one should own? I don’t think so. That’s why you should buy Sony’s compact SRS-XB10 portable speaker, selling at just $29.99, down from its original price tag of $59.99. The cylindrical device is just 3.6-inch high and 3-inch in diameter, so you can easily sneak it into your bag and lug it around. And it’s pretty lightweight at 260 gms allowing you to hang it on your bike’s handle, and listen to…

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Google researchers disclose ‘interactionless’ iOS exploits valued at $5M

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by on July 30, 2019 at 10:19 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


A duo of Google bug-hunting researchers have disclosed several “interactionless” vulnerabilities in iOS that made it possible for hackers to hijack your iPhone via iMessage – without even engaging with the malicious texts. The researchers, Natalie Silvanovich and Samuel Groß, who work with Google’s security task force Project Zero have so far released details for only five out of the six bugs found, ZDNet reports. Four out of these bugs can lead to the execution of malicious code on remote iOS devices, without any significant user interaction. All it takes to perform the attacks successfully is delivering an infectious message and enticing the…

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Hemingway review: UE Wonderboom 2

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by on July 30, 2019 at 10:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


There’s an urban legend that finds Ernest Hemingway in a restaurant with his friends. He bet everyone around the table that he could write a story in only six words — they accepted. So, he leaned down, wrote “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” on a napkin, passed it around, and collected his winnings. This got us thinking: if Hemingway could write an entire story in six words, we should be able to review a product in the same number. So, enter the Hemingway review. This time round we’re looking at the UE Wonderboom 2, a portable Bluetooth speaker. Here’s a picture…

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