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This interweaving of science and real life sounds suspiciously like a Hollywood plot to humanize that old guy with the long gray beard. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. After all, who doesn't want to know more about the softer side of the man still causing a ruckus...
But why? It's not necessarily the programmers' fault. It comes down to the fact that the software is only as good as its algorithms, or the mathematical rules used to determine what a face is. There are two ways to create them: by hard-coding a list of rules...
Yet the biggest problem AB InBev faces is the downward trend in beer consumption in Europe. The company says European drinkers have been gradually switching to wine and spirits in recent years, causing sales of beer to decline sharply. In beer-loving Belgium, the problem has been particularly acute: beer...
The Chinese economy expanded 8.7% last year, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday, an impressive figure that will offer some relief to Beijing policymakers who declared that maintaining stable growth was critical to ensuring social stability in the face of the global economic downturn. Thanks to expansive stimulus...
He's not wrong about the last part. As the news business continues to struggle across the country - the owners of the Denver Post have just become the 13th newspaper company in as many months to announce their filing for bankruptcy protection - many newspapers are trying to figure out ways...