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Software scans tongue for signs of disease →
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Face.com Brings Facial Recognition to the Masses, Now with Age Detection: Interview With CEO →
Looking at someone’s face can tell you a lot about who they are. Running a picture through Face.com‘s systems let’s you turn those instincts into cold hard data. The Israel-based company has made a name for itself over the past few years by providing some of the best facial recognition technology available on the web. To date, developers all over the world have used their API to find nearly 41 billion faces! More than just detecting and identifying faces, the Face.com API provides all sorts of great data: gender, presence of a smile, approximate mood, etc. The latest innovation? Face.com can now accurately estimate the age of the faces it sees. Singularity Hub spoke with CEO and Co-Founder Gil Hirsch about the new Age Detection feature, the success the company has enjoyed so far, and the future of facial recognition technology.
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An open-source robo-surgeon →
RAVENS have a bad reputation. Medieval monks, who liked to give names to everything (even things that did not need them), came up with “an unkindness” as the collective noun for these corvids. Blake Hannaford and his colleagues at the University of Washington, in Seattle, however, hope to change the impression engendered by the word. They are about to release a flock of medical robots with wing-like arms, called Ravens, in the hope of stimulating innovation in the nascent field of robotic surgery.
Robot-assisted surgery today is dominated by the da Vinci Surgical System, a device that scales down a surgeon’s hand movements to let him make tiny incisions. That leads to less tissue damage, and thus a quicker recovery for patients. Almost 2,000 da Vincis have been made, and they are used in about 200,000 operations a year around the world, most commonly hysterectomies and prostate removals.
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A Software Update for Your Car? →
In the coming weeks, owners of certain models of Fords will be getting something unusual in the mail from the company: USB drives.
In our screen-surrounded world, the on-board computer systems in our cars are increasingly important to us. With a new car purchase, for many, it’s the first thing they show off. But we live in an era when even last year’s gadget starts to lose its aura of newness. How do you keep a gadget embedded in a ten-year purchase—a car—feeling new?
