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Submission + - Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition To Authoritarian Regimes (buzzfeednews.com)

Submitted by popcornfan679
popcornfan679 writes: Clearview AI has been touting a “rapid international expansion” to prospective clients using a map that highlights how it either has expanded, or plans to expand, to at least 22 more countries, including the United Arab Emirates, a country historically hostile to political dissidents, and Qatar and Singapore, the penal codes of which criminalize homosexuality.

Submission + - SPAM: Is a vegan diet killing your IQ? 11

Submitted by omfglearntoplay
omfglearntoplay writes: The vegan diet is low in â" or, in some cases, entirely devoid of â" several important brain nutrients. Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans' abilities to think?

To see how crucial B12 is for the brain, take what happens when we donâ(TM)t get enough of it. In children, the consequences of B12 deficiency can be life-altering. âoeThere are some tragic cases of children whose brains failed to develop because of their parents being ill-informed vegans,â says Benton. In one example, the child was unable to sit or smile. In another, they slipped into a coma.

Later in life, the amount of B12 in a personâ(TM)s blood has been directly correlated with their IQ. In the elderly, one study found that the brains of those with lower B12 were six times more likely to be shrinking.

Even so, low B12 is widespread in vegans. One British study found that half of the vegans in their sample were deficient. In some parts of India, the problem is endemic â" possibly as a consequence of the popularity of meat-free diets.

For example, one 2007 study found that giving young women iron supplements led to significant intellectual gains.
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Comment What happened to CaC cards? (Score 1) 276

by christophla (#45370317) Attached to: Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents
Most likely, every single one of those users were issued CaC cards (Common Access Cards). It amazes me that any government system still supports username and password authentication - especially intelligence based systems on the SIPRnet. Certificate/pin based authentication could have prevented much of this from happening...

Comment FLEX (Score 1) 316

by christophla (#11053259) Attached to: Flash Makes Splash in Gadgets
Take a look at Rich Internet Apps created with Macromedia Flex. I agree that flash sucks for sites...but it kicks ass for building apps. i.e. portlets, timecard systems, mail clients, media libs, etc.

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