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I had just mentioned to a colleague today that there should be a functional stylus for the iPad for art apps. Voila! (or...this is another example of how all my brilliant ideas are already invented)

Great news for folks in China, but now that we've publicized how we plan to circumvent the country's censorship technology, can a countermeasure be far behind?

"Although Facebook is by far the largest social network out there, the social network sphere is large and has a ton of players. We were curious about which of them are the most active. To find these sites, we decided to focus on the number of daily visitors to each site."

Methods and systems for automated identification of celebrity face images are provided that generate a name list of prominent celebrities, obtain a set of images and corresponding feature vectors for each name, detect faces within the set of images, and remove non-face images. An analysis of the images is performed using an intra-model analysis, an inter-model analysis, and a spectral analysis to return highly accurate biometric models for each of the individuals present in the name list. Recognition is then performed based on precision and recall to identify the face images as belonging to a celebrity or indicate that the face is unknown.

Not clear yet what actually happened but a car that can drive itself autonomously was involved in a crash, which may be the first such accident of its kind.  

Wired summarizes the state of the "Do Not Track" flag for browsers.  Only Chrome is left not moving forward with it.  There does still remain ambiguity as to what the flag means.