Submission + - Amazon.com is down
seven of five writes: The Consumerist has a story on Amazon, which is currently down. Also Marketwatch says, "Shares of Amazon were down 2.7% to $82.25 in early afternoon trading."
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 12 declined, 5 accepted (17 total, 29.41% accepted)
Submission + - Computers outperform humans at recognizing faces
seven of five writes: "According to MIT's Technology Review, The match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995."
Submission + - Secondhand cellphones hacked
seven of five writes: "Trust Digital exposes flaw in cell phones:
It's hard to wipe the flash memory completely. Secondhand phones found chock-full of juicy secrets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_re_us/be trayed_by_a_cell_phone"
It's hard to wipe the flash memory completely. Secondhand phones found chock-full of juicy secrets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_re_us/b
