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Facial recognition tech is already being used by big tech companies and the government. But Facebook is working on an experimental algorithm that doesn't even need a good shot of your face to pick you out in photos. Human eyes can often easily pick out a person they know based on things other than their faces like their hairstyle, clothing, body type and pose, but machines are still struggling with that problem. "There are a lot of cues we use. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back," Yann LeCun, the head of Facebook's artificial intelligence lab told New Scientist . "For example, you can recognize Mark Zuckerberg very easily, because he always wears a gray T-shirt." Facebook's research is trying to teach computers how to pick up on those same characteristics to identify people in pictures when they don't have a clear shot of a person's face. The researchers took over 37,000 public ...

In-flight WiFi is basically the worst. To get online at all, you usually have to run the gauntlet of a complicated transaction page, typing in your credit card number or performing some kind of log-in. Then you have to fork over three or four coffees' worth of money just so that you can get speeds that rival your parents' dial-up Internet. With this kind of middling experience, it's no surprise more people aren't flocking to in-flight WiFi services like Gogo. According to company data published by Quartz , barely 7 percent of passengers on flights where Gogo is offered actually buy it. That number hasn't changed much since 2011. (Gogo / Quartz)   But as you can see with the line in blue, according to Quartz, Gogo's revenues have been rising in recent years. Some of this may be attributable to Gogo increasing some of its  prices. Gogo is also experimenting with variable pricing in an attempt to see how much users will pay ...

While earlier this month Google rolled out an update for its Gmail for Android app with certain security options, it now has finally given its 'Undo Send' mail option a permanent spot in the portal making it an official Gmail feature. 'Undo Send' was in Gmail Labs for the past six years since it was introduced in March 2009. Until Monday, the 'Undo Send' mail option sat in the Labs section of Gmail, where the search giant tests new features for the mailing portal - many of which never make it to general release, and can also be retired. Users would have to manually navigate to the 'Settings' option and then on 'Labs' tab to then find and enable the feature. However, Google now has graduated or promoted the Undo Send feature out of Labs and shifted it in the 'General' tab under settings. Users besides the option to enable or disable the feature can select the duration of showing the option as soon as a mail has been sent...

Facebook posted the following to its Security account on Tuesday: Keeping links to malware off of our platform is a core function of our Security team. To really stick it to the fraudsters, we go beyond one-off, 'whack-a-mole' removals to systematically combat malicious activity and do away with whole clusters of bad links at a time. This strategy works well, but to make an even greater impact, we begin a few ste ps earlier and help fix compromised computers when they connect to Facebook. We use a combination of signals to help find infections and get the malware off of your computer for good, even if the malware isn't actively spreading spam or harmful links. For the past year, we've been working with anti-malware companies like ESET , F-Secure, and Trend Micro to offer free malware cleanup software to people who use Facebook. Thanks to the collaboration with these companies, in the past three months we have helped clean up more than 2 million peopl...

The music space is certainly heating up as we head into the heart of summer. The latest competitor who wants to provide your poolside jams is Google, which revealed Tuesday that it has a new, free streaming radio service that will serve you up curated playlists. It will be free regardless of whether you subscribe to Google's existing music service, called Google Play Music. "Even if you're not already a Google Play Music subscriber, we've got you covered," the company said in an official blog post. The new radio service bears strong similarities to Songza, a streaming music service that Google bought last July. Songza's claim to fame was that it allowed users to choose stations based on mood. So if you wanted a party night playlist, you could find a station called "Party Night." This is a key feature of the service Google's announcing today. Users can also build stations around a certain album, artist, song or era. ...

1. Coding. Coders especially experience are much in demand. Among all the language the most popular is Java. Java is preffered programming language for Internet of Things(IoT), enterprise architecture and cloud computing. Other language include  C, C++, SQL and Ruby. Visual C#has managed to get into top 5 recently. 2. Big data . 2015 will belong to Big Data . Companies are looking for  candidates with knowledge of big data and thinking computers system. Candidates having these skills are chased by large companies with lucrative salaries. Big Data technology includes Apache, Hadoop , Spark, NoSQL, maching learning, data mining and statistical and quantitative analysis. 3. Cloud computing. Year 2015 will be the year of cloud computing.The reason is that costs can be slashed as much as 90 percent through digitization of information-intensive processes.  In Future we will see "a world of hybrid deployments in which some information and applications reside in th...

The Income Tax department has notified the new set of ITR forms, including a three-page simplified one, for taxpayers to file their returns for assessment year 2015-16. With the Finance Ministry publishing the gazette order yesterday, taxpayers and other entities can now file their Income Tax Returns (ITR) till August 31, the new deadline set in this regard by the government after it dropped the earlier forms which had attracted criticism for seeking numerous additional details like that of filers' foreign travel and about dormant bank accounts. The most simplified form, ITR-2A, to be filled by those individuals and HUFs who do not have income from either business, profession or by way of capital gains and do not hold foreign assets, only asks for the passport number of the tax-filer, with the words "if available". Filers now will have to declare only about the "total number of savings and current bank accounts" held by them "at any tim...