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Submission + - Google Images Undisclosed Face Recognition Feature

Submitted by alberion on Friday June 01, 2007 @04:06PM

alberion writes: The Google image search has an undisclosed face recognition feature. Just add "&imgtype=face" to the url of an image search result to check it out. Can we expect individual face recognition in the future? How will this affect people's privacy?

Submission + - George Lucas Anounces Two New Star Wars Movies

Submitted by alberion on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @02:39PM

alberion writes: In interview to the Fox News, George Lucas anounces two new Star Wars Movies. From the interview:
Lucas tells me he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said. "They will be other people of that milieu." The two extra films will also be made for TV and probably be an hour long each. But, like "Clone Wars," Lucas doesn't know where on TV they will land.

Submission + - Cyber Homeless People

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alberion

on Monday May 07, 2007 @11:33AM

alberion writes: "In Japan a new social class has emerged. People who are not unemployed, but can no longer afford a place to live. Their solution? Living on cyber cafes."

Submission + - Slashdot site typo?

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alberion

on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @12:04PM

alberion writes: "This is not a Story. In the Submit session there is a typo:
"...submit a story a story to Slashdot for story consideration."

I don't know the proper channel for this kind of information, but i thought you might like to know."

Submission + - Tribe Upended our Understanding of Languages?

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alberion

on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:17PM

alberion writes: "The New Yorker brings an article about Dan Everett's work with the Piraha tribe in the Amazon that may change the way linguists define human languages. Not all linguists agree.
From the Article: "The Piraha, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art, and no common terms of quantification. His most explosive claim was that Piraha displays no evidence of recursion, the linguistic operation of embedding one phrase inside another. Noam Chomsky has argued that recursion is the cornerstone of a "universal grammar" shared by all languages.""

Submission + - National Geografic's Singles Map

Submitted by alberion on Thursday April 12, 2007 @02:26PM

alberion writes: National Geographic's February issue had a map comparing the density of single men to single women in the USA. Pehaps there is some historical reason for this uneven distribution?see here

Submission + - How dating cxan be like DOOM II on nightmare mode

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alberion

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:39PM

alberion writes: "Mingle2 makes a comparison between his relationship with his ex and playing Doom II on nightmare mode. Quote: "I'm trapped in this relationship and IDDQD and IDKFA are starting to sound very appealing. I'm a man of ethics, however, and I'm going to endure this masochistic adventure as honestly as I can. (Plus, the sex is still great)"."

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