Facial recognition and detection software is a hot button issue on the Web right now. Facebook has stirred a hornets nest by using facial recognition with users’ pictures, asking people to tag their friends. Google has said that is a line of creepy it will not cross. Facial detection software is not just limited...
Looking to kill some time? Check out the new feature just launched by YouTube, which they’re calling As Seen On. The gist is simple: YouTube is crawling blogs and other websites to see which YouTube videos they’re linking to, and has compiled all of the linked videos into an easily-browsable list. You can find...
It’s tough to embark on ambitious fitness plans or to learn a new sport without the help of friends or likeminded people to help coach you through the process. Trying to go from lite jogger to marathon runner or from casual golfer to shooting par: The challenges are invigorating, sure, but vim and vigor...
Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider Steve Kovach I’ve spent a week with the beta version of iOS 5 on my iPhone 4. Bottom line: I still think it’s awesome. And still the best mobile OS around by a longshot. But that doesn’t mean it’s without flaws. Apple neglected to announce several features we were...
Image: CafePress Wait long enough, and everything comes back around. 12 years after it was founded, CafePress, an online source for funny customizable t-shirts, mugs, and other items, has filed to go public in a $80 million IPO. We’re running through the company’s S-1 filing now and business looks pretty good — the company is...
There’s no way Apple will remain as successful without Steve Jobs. Yes, it might appear to be riding along successfully for a few years after his departure but before long we’ll begin to notice the cracks. That said, I *hope* the company is successful for generations after Steve Jobs, I just don’t believe it...
A few months ago we linked to Tomaž Kovačič’s overview of text extraction algorithms. Now Kovačič has posted an evaluation of several text extraction algorithms and services, including Boilerpipe, NCleaner, the Python and Node.js versions of Readability and the Extractiv API. To conduct his evaluations, Kovačič used the cleaneval dataset, which includes 681 documents,...
Spotify founders Martin Lorentzon and Daniel Ek Image: Spotify See Also: iOS 5 Is Amazing — You Have To See It To Believe It! The 7 Most-Wanted Features STILL Missing from iOS 5 The 8 Easiest Ways To Clean Up Your Facebook News Feed Spotify has signed a deal with Universal Music Group, meaning...
alex Oh know! Facebook is lax about user privacy! Let’s make a mass move back to Myspace! This is all very meh. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/SIH7FUhHFZg/
Another day, another tech company is filing for a public offering. This time it’s Cafepress, which allows users to design, buy and sell merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, mugs, bumper stickers and more. The company just filed itsS-1 today, and aims to raise as much as $80 million in an IPO. Cafepress, which...