The National Monuments Service of Ireland manage a Ship Wrecks website that shows the location and details of all the catalogued ship wrecks within Irish territorial waters.
According to Connie Chan, runners of the Shanghai marathon can use a facial recognition product to easily buy photos of themselves running the marathon, automatically sourced from every photo of the race.
Face recognition commercialization:
A high-decibel noise from a gas based fire suppression system knocked out Nasdaq servers in Sweden. Apparently, the vibrations caused by 110dB+ can affect some hard drives.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed a relatively cheap system of creating a touch wall using electrodes and conductive paint called Wall++. The smart wall system can operate in two modes; the first capactive sensing mode to detect touch; and the second electromagnetic sensing mode to detect and track an EM device's location on the wall.(H/T to Mikael for sharing this)
James Fisher highlights a loophole in how Gmail disregards dots in email addresses, which could be engineered to trick someone into paying for your Netflix.
Google are releasing AI toolkit sets (available in Target stores in the U.S.) that include a Raspberry Pi Zero WH to allow you to quickly get your AI on.
Leap Motion are set to release the design for an AR headset that incorporates the company’s advanced hand tracking technology. At large scale production, the headset is estimated to cost approx. $100.
