Check if your photos were used to develop facial recognition systems with this free tool

Check if your photos were used to develop facial recognition systems with this free tool Exposing.ai finds can find out if your images were used in AI surveillance research Rapid results I tested out the tool on Flickr accounts that have shared photos with the public under a Creative Commons license. The second account I tried was spotted in the datasets. Unfortunately, there isn’t too much you can do once your photos have been scraped....

2 min · 233 words · Kimberly Wilson

Check out (and rent from) YouTube’s new premium store now. Here’s how. [Screenshots]

A Hacker News member hasfounda cached copy of the new YouTube Store that will replace YouTube’s current rental store with the introduction of first-run new movies. Earlier today itwas revealedthat YouTube is expanding its movie-on-demand rental offerings with major studios as licensors, and we assumed that this new library of material would become an extension of the existing YouTube Movies rental service. But if this cached copy of the newYouTube Storefeaturing those major studio movies is anything to go by, it appears YouTube will be introducing a new store or relaunch of the existing one aside a large new library of content....

2 min · 279 words · Richard Smith

Check out Taap.it, it’s Craigslist for the mobile era

We first wroteaboutTaap.it, a NYC based startup, when it was named “Social Listing,” just days after it launched at this spring’s Tech Crunch Disrupt. The mobile application connects local buyers and sellers in a Craigstlist like fashion, albeit with items both searchable and sellable by location. The new app for both iPhone and Android is refreshing local classified advertisements by enabling users to sell anything, socially, locally and in realtime from their mobile phone....

6 min · 1261 words · Melanie Hunt

Check out the T-Shirt that charges your phone on the go

It’s that time of year again where music festivals are in full swing and one of the perennial problems that all music lovers recognize is your phone running out of charge and you being stuck in a field full of hundreds of thousands of people and not being able to find your friends. Well with the biggest and best known festival of them all taking place this weekend at Glastonbury, mobile phone company Orange look to have solved that problem with its brand new charging device that you wear in the form of a T shirt....

2 min · 298 words · Melanie Ruiz

Check out these lesser-known Python features

Check out these lesser-known Python features divmod This is a very useful function. Thedivmod()function performs a modulus division%on two numbers, then returns both the quotient and remainder. For example: Out:(2, 1) This is simply finding the number of times we can fit2into5, without splitting the number, which gives us2, the quotient. After this, we still have1leftover, which is our remainder. This is particularly useful for returning the time taken for a process to run — in hours, minutes, and seconds....

2 min · 424 words · Sheryl Smith
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