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Samsung System Tailors Ads To Its Audience 172

angry tapir writes "Samsung has developed an outdoor digital advertising system that tailors ads based on its audience. There are three main components of the system: an LCD display panel, a dual lens camera and a processing computer, which runs the company's proprietary facial recognition software. If the technology identifies several female members in a group, then it can target advertisements at them, for example. Even if the group is mixed, the technology can identify whether onlookers are children or adults. If they're adults then maybe a wine ad could run whereas an advertisement for toys might play for kids."

Comment Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual (Score 1) 1077

As everyone said, Finnish is of course very different from English. However, I would just like to point out that Torvalds is a Swedish-speaking Finn; Swedish and English are relatively similar. They both belong to the Germanic language family, and they share a lot of cognates: hus/house, katt/cat, man/man, öppna/open, dörr/door, skit/shit, is/ice, tuff/tough, etc. Some other words' similarity with English isn't striking at first but it makes sense once you get a grasp of how the language sounds, e.g. stjäla/steal, lätt/light, etc.
As an expatriate in Sweden, I think Swedish isn't that daunting to pick up at first, although the pronunciation is kinda tough.
Mastering a language, however similar it is to your native language, still requires a lot of work.

Comment Re:Learn English (Score 1) 49

Yes, let's just merrily destroy everyone's cultures for the sake of standardization. Diversity is such an unnecessary burden. English is indeed a superior language, because it doesn't have those pesky accented characters that can't be typed on an American keyboard. Also, with its very consistent spelling and dead simple pronounciation, it is a natural choice for everyone in the world to learn. Thank you, America!

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