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Real-Life ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Stops AI Cameras From Recognizing People


"Scientists have developed a real-life “invisibility cloak” that tricks artificial intelligence (AI) cameras and stops them from recognizing people."

Except it doesn't always work.

#technology #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FacialRecognition

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Ready for a snug-as-a-bug winter? Twee has returned


After all the out-there sexiness of contemporary culture, it’s a relief to relax into the warm embrace of twee once again


A reaction to the awful side of modern life? Just cute? Both? Neither?

#lifestyle #twee #interesting

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All the rage: the women who meet to scream into the night


'Scream groups’ are forming across the world, where women gather in parks and public places to release their frustrations


#psychology #psychotherapy #SelfHelp

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FDA approves 1st drug to delay onset of Type 1 diabetes


"The injection was shown in clinical trials to delay onset of insulin-dependent Type 1 diabetes for patients with autoantibody markers of early risk by over two years, with hopes for some that it can delay onset even longer."

#science #medicine #health #diabetes

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The Arc browser is the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for


"Arc isn’t perfect, and it takes some getting used to. But it’s full of big new ideas about how we should interact with the web — and it’s right about most of them."

#technology #tech #internet #web #browsers

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Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed


For more than a decade, a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. His lies fooled newspapers, teachers and officials. Then a teenager flagged up something that everyone else had missed.


Huh! Next you'll be telling us that Jimmy Wales didn't invent Wikipedia! 😃

#interesting #funny #amusing #Wikipedia #hoaxes

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The X100V is So Popular Fujifilm Can’t Handle More Orders


Fujifilm unveiled the X100V camera with a redesigned lens, the latest generation of X-Trans sensor, a two-way tilting rear LCD screen, and “optional” weather resistance, in February 2020.
But now, less than three years later, FujiFilm Japan has announced that it is having to temporarily cease new orders due to having too many backed up to properly fulfill.


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Vaccine shown to prolong life of patients with aggressive brain cancer


Trial results suggest people with newly diagnosed glioblastoma could potentially be given extra years of life.

#science #medicine #health

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BBC Click segment on Mastodon


"It's open source so it's a bit geeky".
"Changing servers is difficult".
"You don't tweet, you toot".

Why does the Click team always seem to come across as a bunch of out-of-date Luddites trying to show their audience why tech is too difficult for them?

#tech #technology #BBCClick #TV

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Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign prank that cost £25k


A man who spent £25,000 on a fake airport sign in mid Wales is bringing the prank to an end after 20 years. For the past two decades, a billboard for Llandegley International has been a landmark in the Powys village. It looks like an ordinary road sign, but actually signposts to an airport that only exists in people's imagination. After spending thousands of pounds to erect and maintain the sign, the owner decided it's time to take it down.


Llandegley Airport is no more!

#fun #interesting

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