It’s been almost a year since Facebook first unveiled its ambitious AR vision called project Aria. While it was mostly about conceptual ideas and providing a“sensor platform”to developers, we never got to hear more about it — until now. A newproduct manual, first spotted byProtocol, describes what this prototype device might look like and what it’s meant to do. The hardware is codenamed Gemini EVT (engineering valuation test), and it doesn’t have an in-built display....

The Newspaper Guildof America, which represents 26,000 media employees across the country,released a statementthis week, encouraging all unpaid writers atThe Huffington Postto stop working. Yesterday, I wrote a post titled, “Should unpaid writers for The Huffington Post go on strike?” arguing that it made sense that bloggers for The Huffington Post were unpaid because the experience gives writers exposure and access that they otherwise might not have. Working in media, art, fashion, music or filmmaking and having an fulfilling, creative job means that you likely worked for free at some point in your life....

In October 2010, a small applicationcalled Firesheephad Internet users quivering in fear that their social accounts could be hacked instantly, with a small Firefox extension able to hijack Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr and Amazon.com sessions whist they were connected to unsecured wifi. With Firesheep requiring a desktop computer to steal a users cookies and authenticate them as any user browsing on the same wireless network, the potential for attacks was rather limited....

What do you do when you set out to leverage the power of existing facial recognition technology to launch a new business, only to discover that the existing technology isn’t really up to scratch? That was one quandary the good people at Israeli startupFace.comencountered. And here’s its story. Gil Hirsch & Face.com I spoke with Gil Hirsch in the build up to his talk at theWired 2011event in London today, he’s the CEO and one of four co-founders of Face....

Facial recognition has arrived in school canteens. Nine schools in Scotland have started taking lunch payments from schoolchildren by scanning their faces,the Financial Times reports. The system reportedly speeds up the lengthy payment process and is more Covid-secure than using cards and fingerprint scanners. Of course, these issues could have been resolved by making school lunches free. But why invest in healthy meals for children when you can splurge on technosolutionism instead?...