Last week, new mug shots of Jared Loughner were released by the US Marshals Service. Loughner, the gunman accused in the brutal Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shocked the nation with his original mug shot and his maniacal grin. These recent images, which were taken three days after the shooting in Phoenix, shows Loughner…
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Can Humans outperform the newest technology? Many of you might have seen the recent Jeopardy episodes that featured Watson, IBM’s super computer who was up against the two all-time winners and super human minds of Jeopardy Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. In the end, Watson dominated his two super intelligent counterparts. But what is to…
Read MoreIs Botox the Key to Curing Depression?
An NBC2 Florida (WBBH) news program recently aired a segment about the possibility of Botox being used to help treat depression. Dr. Eric Finzi, a board certified dermasurgeon, began studying the effects of Botox injections on women with major depressive disorder in 2006. He injected Botox into the frowning muscles (located between the eyebrows) of…
Read MoreEmotion Recognition Technology on the iPhone?
iPhone users: Blue Finger, Inc., a South Korean development company, has released a new iPhone app that reads facial expressions from photos (as well as in real time, if you purchase the full version.) The app scans the faces and gives you one of 12 answers: happiness, excitement, anger, joy, worry, loneliness, tiredness, sadness, “poker-face,”…
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