Monday 29 June 2015

Facebook Can Recognize YouEven if You Don't Show YourFace

Well, this is incredible and scary both at the
same time.
Forget about "facial" recognition;
Facebook's newest technology is way good at
identifying you in photos even without the need
to see your face .
The New Scientist is reporting about the
Facebook's new "experimental" facial
recognition algorithm which is so powerful that
it can identify you in photos even when your
faces are hidden.
Instead, the Facebook's extremely accurate
facial recognition algorithm uses other unique
characteristics — such as your hairstyle, your
body shape, your body language, your clothing
and how you carry yourself — to identify that
it's you.
Facebook's New Facial Recognition Technology -
83% Accurate
Facebook's artificial intelligence lab is working
on this technology and, according to the head
of artificial intelligence at Facebook Yann
Lecun, the experimental algorithm is currently
able to identify individuals with 83% accuracy,
even if the faces in the photos are obscured.
"There are a lot of cues we use. People
have characteristic aspects, even if
you look at them from the back," Lecun
said while taking to the New Scientist.
Like, "for example, you can recognize
Mark Zuckerberg very easily because he
always wears a gray T-shirt."
No doubt, this is beneficial to Facebook, who
wants to incorporate this algorithm into its
recently-launched Moments app that helps
create collections of photos by scanning your
camera roll with facial recognition.
Even though the feature is very impressive, it
does not mean every one of us are comfortable
with the idea of being so accurately scanned,
identified, and recognized by any tech company.
However, LeCun said the technology could
actually be good for privacy. Like, it might
alert users if their photo surfaces online, even
if their face is not clear or they are facing
away from the camera.

Sunday 28 June 2015

World’s First 200GB microSD Card Arrives

There isn't any troll in the title. The " World's Largest microSD" card sized at 200GB is now officially available for purchasing from Amazon and number of retailers.

So, Is your 16GB, or 32GB, or even 64GB smartphone not enough to store all your data in one place?

Order a Sandisk's new high-capacity microSD card from Amazon now. However, the only issue is that it is not exactly very cheap. You will have to pay around $240 to buy one.

World's First 200GB MicroSD Card

Back in March when Sandisk first announced the world's first 200GB microSD card, it was expected to be priced at around $400. However, $240 has been marked as the price for the highest-capacity microSD card available in the market.

Sandisk's 200GB microSD card, or Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, offers a transfer speed of up to 90MB per second, which is double the speed provided by its 128GB counterpart.

Transfer Speed: 1200 Photos Per Minute

The company claims that the speed will allow you to transfer up to 1,200 photos in just a single minute. The card is something of great use for photographers and filmmakers who need more storage capacity to store high-resolution photographs and videos.

Moreover, Sandisk's 200GB MicroSD card comes packaged with an SD adapter and a 10-year limited warranty.

Furthermore, the 200GB MicroSD card is waterproof, shockproof, temperature proof, magnet proof and X-ray proof to deal with any possibility of destruction.

However, if you can not spent this much for 200GB of storage space, there always remains an option for you to buy a 128GB MicroSD card that still provides you plenty of space and costs as much as $80.