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...