How Facebook’s Yann LeCun is charting a path to human-level artificial intelligence Facebook’s chief AI scientist told TNW about his work at FAIR, the social network’s research lab FAIR origins FAIR began life after Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook CTO Michael Schroepfer identified AI as critical to the company’s long-term future. “They were 100% right about this,” says LeCun, now Facebook’s chief AI scientist. They decided tocreate a new research lab from scratch — and handpicked LeCun to lead it....

How facial recognition systems are adapting to masks What is facial recognition? Facial recognitioninvolves using computing to identify human faces in images or videos, and then measuring specific facial characteristics. This can include the distance between eyes, and the relative positions of the nose, chin and mouth. This information is combined to create afacial signature, or profile. When used for individual recognition – such as to unlock your phone – an image from the camera is compared to a recorded profile....

It’s no surprise that Libya’s former leader Gadhafi was using technology to spy on his people. As Libyan rebels take over his headquarters in Tripoli, we get to find out exactly how the government was keeping tabs on its citizens. The Wall Street Journalwas able to get afirsthand lookat a room filled with secrets about secrets. A repository of training manuals bearing the name Amesys, a unit of a French tech firm, Bull SA....

For those of us who live in parts of the world where high speed Internet is still a luxury, there’s a massive amount of jealousy that happens when we see huge numbers. In athread over on Redditwhere members of Google’s Chrome team are answering questions, we’ve just gotten a peek at Google’s Internet connection: Now, let’s put these numbers into perspective. According toOokla’s Net Index, the average speed for a country in Europe is around 12 Mb/second....

Financial markets have taken the news of Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO in stride today, with the company’s market valuation taking a small dip, by noon East Coast time. Apple’s share price had declined by.91 percentof their total volume by noon, though there have been fluctuations. Apple shares closed at $376.18 on Wednesday. After the markets closed Jobs’ resignation was announced, which led to a drop in after-hours trading. The market reacted today and AAPL lost almost 3% during the opening on high volume....