Tag: algorithm
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Nightmare Machine – Halloween, MIT Style
In time for Halloween, MIT has previewed a new AI-powered horror algorithm. Aptly named, the “Nightmare Machine”, the AI takes ordinary photos and uses the algorithm designed by MIT’s Media Lab to create new terrifying versions of those photos that even Clive Barker might find disturbing. With a plethora of filters, including ‘Inferno’, ‘Ghost Town’,…
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Program To Detect Online Trolls Created
Troublemakers on online messaging services and forums, also known as trolls, are a consistent problem for websites. trolling epidemics and ultra aggressive users can drive away longtime users of sites, even when moderators are hard at work keeping things peaceful on the boards. A new algorithm is in development, built using research undertaken by both Cornell…
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Google releases new “news_keywords” Metatag tool for Google News SEO
Google has released a slight algorithm change to its SEO function for Google search (another in a long list of constant changes) that is once again aimed at making Google News and other search functions more open to journalism rather than articles that are optimised to get the best search results. This basically means that…
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Flame and Stuxnet Malware Creators ‘Co-operated At Least Once’
New findings from security firm Kaspersky suggests that both the creators of Stuxnet and Flame “Co-operated at least once”.
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Google patent facial recognition for next-gen celeb stalking
Google have previously denied walking the slightly stalky avenue of facial recognition, so the report of a patent taken by the company relating to “Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications” is a little alarming. Information dates back to February and was again noted yesterday suggesting Google’s intentions for “methods and systems…
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How Google’s Panda Update Has Harmed Tech Blogs
Google have often provided a lifeline to small independent websites, but recently in changes masquerading as a clamp down on spam and aggregators, page rankings have shifted towards large corporations and away from smaller blogs. The new Panda update has caused hundreds of websites’ page rankings to plummet and publishers, quite rightly, aren’t happy. Google Panda came…