posted 12/9/2008 by Chris
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Do you hate smiling for pictures?  If so, then you might want to do it while you can - according to a recent article, Indiana BMV Communications Director Dennis Rosebrough states that applicants for a new or renewed operator's license or state identification card will no longer be allowed to smile and say cheese.  Apparently new facial recognition software being employed by the state fails to function when the face is distorted by something as innocuous as smiling...

posted 10/21/2008 by Chris
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A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract document has been analyzed to assert that advanced video spying from the sky is on the way. The contract in question was awarded last month and involves indexing video feeds and matching feeds against stored footage...

posted 08/16/2008 by Chris
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"In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies. They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision..."

posted 08/10/2008 by Chris
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Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. The first entry, from Aug. 9, 1938, will appear online Saturday, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote it...