« Screenshot of HubCab, showing pickups and drop offs of all 170 million taxi trips over one year in New York City ». (via HubCab | MIT Senseable City Lab)
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After Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan banned Twitter in the country late Thursday night, many local users found ways to circumvent the restrictions. But getting around the ban is becoming more difficult, as the government appears to have changed up its technical strategy for blocking the social media platform.
Popcorn Time unifies all the titles under one roof — in exactly the agnostic, friendly way that the movie industry in aggregate has been so unable to do for its own products.
Cloak scrapes Instagram and Foursquare to let you know where all your friends, “friends,” and nonfriends are at all times so you never have to run into that special someone. Think of it as the antisocial network.
« This was one lesson that both my daughter and I learned very quickly! I had not anticipated it gaining momentum as fast as it did. It certainly opened my eyes to the fact that I thought my own private Facebook was secure. It was not as secure as I thought ». (via Mother’s Facebook Lesson Takes Different Turn After 4Chan Finds Daughter’s Photo)
Apple has opened exploratory talks with senior label executives about the possibility of launching an on-demand streaming service that would rival Spotify and Beats Music, according to three people familiar with the talks. Apple is also thinking about adding an iTunes App for Android phones, the Google rival that has been growing faster than the iPhone, these sources said. The surprising discussions are part of a multi-pronged strategy to deal with the double-digit decline in U.S. download sales at Apple’s iTunes Music Store, the largest music retailer.
iBeacons Aren’t Just For Retail
The company’s legal department determined that it had the right to go through a private e-mail account, citing a leak of proprietary Microsoft code.
La posture de victime affichée par la France depuis les révélations sur les activités de la NSA à son encontre risque d’être de moins en moins crédible. Les autorités françaises, qui aiment alerter l’opinion sur les dangers qui menacent sans cesse nos secrets d’Etat ou ceux de nos secteurs stratégiques, ont été prises la main dans le sac d’un espionnage tous azimuts visant des pays aussi bien amis que jugés dangereux. Les services secrets canadiens suspectent en effet leurs homologues français d’être derrière une vaste opération de piratage informatique, qui aurait débuté en 2009 et se poursuivrait toujours, grâce à un implant espion.
Our method reaches an accuracy of 97.25% on the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset, reducing the error of the current state of the art by more than 25%, closely approaching human-level performance