“Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an ‘anti-face.'”
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Apparently, NPR Listeners Like To Read About Sex (On Mobile Devices)
“While people browsing, say, biographies or science books were happy to do it from their desktops, a disproportionate number of you were looking up the sexy sexy books on mobile. Didn’t want the boss looking over your shoulder, huh?”
Fashion Shops Are Coming To Eat Your Art Galleries
“Westminster City Council, in central London, is proposing new measures to protect art galleries in Mayfair from encroaching fashion shops.”
Want To Remix The British Library’s Image Collection?
Now you can: The institution released more than a million images to Flickr for public reuse and remix and … anything you want.
When A Private Museum Fails
“Situations like this are very complicated. There’s the safety of the work, there’s the protection of the work. You know, how do you sustain a collection? How do you have it support itself as a collection?”