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MIT Researchers Teach Computers To Recognize Your Smile, Frustration
engadget.com 1 hour, 46 minutes agoWipe that insincere, two-faced grin off your face -- your computer knows you're full of it. Or at least it will once it gets a load of MIT's research on classifying frustration, delight and facial expressions. By teaching a computer how to differentiate between involuntary smiles of frustration and genuine grins of joy, researchers hope to be able to deconstruct the expression into low-level features. What's the use of a disassembled smile? In addition to helping computers suss out your mood , the team hope
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Book Review: What America’s Banana King Teaches Us About Capitalism
time.com 2 hours, 50 minutes agoAmericans puzzling over the role of today’s powerful corporations , Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Google , may profit from considering the example of the United Fruit Company. It seems almost quaint to think that a company specializing in bananas might have once been considered a capitalist giant on the level of today’s firms, but so [...]










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