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Live mesh explained
Live mesh explained in plain English for the uninitiated
The IMAGINATION Project: Picture-based CAPTCHAs
“Researchers at Penn State have developed a patent-pending image-based CAPTCHA technology for next-generation computer authentication. A user is asked to pass two tests: (1) click the geometric center of an image within a composite image, and (2) annotate an image using a word selected from a list. These images shown to the users have fake colors, textures, and edges, based on a sequence of randomly-generated parameters. Computer vision and recognition algorithms, such as alipr, rely on original colors, textures, and shapes in order to interpret the semantic content of an image. Because of the endowed power of imagination, even without the correct color, texture, and shape information, humans can still pass the tests with ease. Until computers can ‘imagine’ what is missing from an image, robotic programs will be unable to pass these tests. The system is called IMAGINATION and you can try it out.”
Spying Bats The Latest Drone Technology
…Now meet the latest in the drone arsenal, the Spy Bat. A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.
LinkedIn Founder Has Golden Touch
Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around his belief that good fortune flows from good relationships.
EU Group Say Web Companies Do Too Little To Protect Users’ Privacy
The Financial Times (4/8, Allison) reports, “An influential European Union privacy group has taken aim at some of the methods used by Google, Microsoft and other leading technology companies to deliver relevant online search results.” The Times continues, “In an opinion published on a Dutch government website, the Article 29 Working Party, a group of [...]
20 Ways to Increase your Alexa Rank
20 Ways to Increase your Alexa Rank
Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.
Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, [...]
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