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  • September 2008

    • Tech Tools Gauge Politicians' Spin

      New Scientist  |  Sep 18, 08 4:11 PM CDT

      Tech Tools Gauge Politicians' Spin

      (Newser) - Want to know if John McCain and Barack Obama are stretching the truth? Speech, voice, and facial recognition technology is helping researchers determine just that, New Scientist reports. Analyzing words from 150 speeches from the presidential election, one researcher found that Obama used much higher “levels of spin” than McCain. “Obama is very good at using stirring rhetoric to deal with the issues. And it seems to work if you look at what happens in the polls afterwards,” he noted. More »

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      presidential politics  • facial recognition technology  • voice recognition

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • Machines Join Japanese Anti-Smoking Effort

      Reuters  |  May 12, 08 4:25 PM CDT

      Machines Join Japanese Anti-Smoking Effort

      (Newser) - New face-scanning software may help Japanese vending machines decide who can buy cigarettes and who can't, Reuters reports. The system would look for wrinkles and saggy skin to identify customers over the legal smoking age of 20. As of July, vendors are on the hook for checking ID, and the new technology  may stop teen smokers from using friends' proof of age. More »

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      Japan  • cigarettes  • aging  • vending machine  • facial recognition technology  • teen smoking  • wrinkles

  • April 2008

    • UK Airports to Scan Faces

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 25, 08 12:18 PM CDT

      UK Airports to Scan Faces

      (Newser) - New facial recognition technology in which computers scan faces and match them to information encoded in biometric passports will be used at UK airports for the first time this summer, the Guardian reports. Authorities say the machines will outperform humans and improve security, but critics fear the technology will cause flight disruptions by generating too many false negatives. More »

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      terrorism  • airport security  • border security  • facial recognition technology  • UK Border Agency

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