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Facebook AI Research says it has created a system that can modify human faces in live video feeds to thwart state-of-the-art facial recognition software (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Facebook AI Research says it has created a system that can modify human faces in live video feeds to thwart state-of-the-art facial recognition software  —  Facebook AI Research says it has created a machine learning system for de-identification of individuals in video. Facebook AI Research says it has created a system

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Hackaday Links: October 27, 2019

A year ago, we wrote about the discovery of treasure trove of original documentation from the development of the MOS 6502 by Jennifer Holdt-Winograd, daughter of the late Terry Holdt, the original program manager on the project. Now, Ms. Winograd has created a website to celebrate the 6502 and the team that built it. There’s

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Stripe launches in Mexico, three weeks after the country's central bank launched CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes (Justin Villamil/Bloomberg)

Justin Villamil / Bloomberg: Stripe launches in Mexico, three weeks after the country’s central bank launched CoDi, a mobile payments system that lets consumers make payments using QR codes  —  Mobile payment startup Stripe Inc. began operations in Mexico, three weeks after after the launch of a similar central bank-backed system aimed … Stripe launches

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Profile of vTaiwan online service, created after 2014 protests, to help groups of people with different interests achieve consensus to guide new regulations (Carl Miller/BBC)

Carl Miller / BBC: Profile of vTaiwan online service, created after 2014 protests, to help groups of people with different interests achieve consensus to guide new regulations  —  There is one thing that practically everyone can agree on: politics has become bitterly divided. Profile of vTaiwan online service, created after 2014 protests, to help groups

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Two FTC commissioners say the Sunday Riley settlement, which involved no return of gains, despite strong evidence of wrongdoing, may usher in more review fraud (Paris Martineau/Ars Technica)

Paris Martineau / Ars Technica: Two FTC commissioners say the Sunday Riley settlement, which involved no return of gains, despite strong evidence of wrongdoing, may usher in more review fraud  —  “Dishonest firms may come to conclude that posting fake reviews is a viable strategy.”  —  Like much of the Internet, online reviews are often

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