Webcam Watergate

How would you feel if every time you logged onto your personal accounts from your laptop or phone you were giving away valuable personal information you hold dear? Scientists at Cambridge University have shown that a person’s facial expressions could give away their security codes via the webcam on their device. The Inquirer.net noted that with…

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Primates & Facial Expression Complexity

Primates have been relying on facial expressions to delineate friends from predators for thousands of years and new research purports that increasing group size puts more pressure on the evolution of coloration across different sub-regions of primates’ faces. International Business Times reports on these new findings from biologists from the University of California Los Angeles.…

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The Future of Facial Recognition

Ted Talks blog has delineated seven fascinating facts about the future of facial recognition via Alessandro Acquisti. To illustrate what he means, he focuses our attention on facial recognition software and a study he conducted in 2010, when about 2.5 billion photos were uploaded to Facebook in a single month, many of them tagged. For…

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Emotion Regulation

Most of us have been told that keeping your “cool” is a great quality.  However, The Association for Psychological  Science has just issued a press release saying that new research suggests that keeping your emotions in check may not be as beneficial as once thought. They noted that being able to regulate your emotions in…

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