2016-11-04

Accessories to crime: Facial recog defeated by wacky paper glasses • The Register

Accessories to crime: Facial recog defeated by wacky paper glasses • The Register: "Researchers armed with some nifty algorithms and a set of paper glasses frames have found a way to trick facial recognition systems.

Users can either evade being recognized – or more interestingly, impersonate another individual – with up to at least 80 per cent success rate, the researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill boasted."

But can you handle the social pressure from the outfit?

How a money man helped Steve Jobs turn Pixar into a powerhouse

How a money man helped Steve Jobs turn Pixar into a powerhouse: "In the early ’90s, Pixar was in the middle of creating its first movie, Toy Story, but the company was in disarray. It was bleeding cash and floundering around looking for a business model."

Content is king.