Meta has patented a smart-glasses system that could use facial recognition to identify people and automatically create personalized highlight reels of events such as dinner parties. The patent doesn't guarantee the feature will ship, but it offers a detailed look at how Meta is exploring facial recognition and AI-powered memory capture for its wearable devices. 404 Media reports: "I've generated some highlights of tonight's dinner party. Would you like to see them?" a prompt from the system says, alongside various thumbnails of what look like people laughing, according to one illustration in the patent. One section says the system may personalize highlight files using "user relationship data." The illustrations clearly show a person wearing a pair of glasses, looking at a group of people, then the glasses focusing on one or more people in particular.

Patentlyze, an organization that tracks patents, first alerted 404 Media to the patent on Friday. The patent is dense with how such a system would work, but in sum, the system with one or more cameras receives an input from the user, then uses machine-learning and "sensory data" to figure out points of interest in the camera's field of view. That can include detecting people in the shot "based on one or more facial recognition algorithms," identifying those specific people, detecting their facial expressions, using "eye gaze data of the user captured by the client system," and figuring out other points of interest "based on scene and semantic understanding."

Although the patent is for "particular camera-based tasks by particular systems in a particular manner" -- in this case, the company's smart glasses -- Meta writes it "contemplates assisting users in any suitable camera-based task by any suitable system in any suitable manner." Meaning that although this technology is focused on the glasses, maybe the company will use it for other purposes in the future.

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More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America

When the cartoonist Art Spiegelman began dating his future wife, Françoise Mouly, in the mid 70s, she would tell him not to worry about walking her home, because even the New York muggers didn’t bother venturing to where she lived in Soho. He moved in with her quite suddenly not long after, when his apartment in Greenwich Village burned down. His landlord, who lived on the ground floor, was a hoarder – once, when he came to collect Spiegelman’s rent, a cockroach crawled up from under his shirt collar – and eventually his accumulated junk caught alight.

This feels like a quintessential New York story, but then much of Spiegelman’s life does, or at least fits with the kind of stories we like to tell ourselves about the city. The Soho apartment Spiegelman and Mouly have lived in for five decades is worth millions now and is surrounded by high-end designers; his studio, down the road, is above a branch of Tiffany’s. “It’s just kind of an embarrassment, I mean Tiffany’s is not my class,” says Spiegelman, who refers to these flash new arrivals, dismissively, as “very fancy airport mall stores”.

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De Spaanse stad Granada is opgeschrikt door een aardbeving met een kracht van 5.5. De autoriteiten berichten dat er schade is aan onder meer auto's en panden. Maar de schade zou meevallen en er zijn geen gewonden gevallen. De autoriteiten hebben gewaarschuwd uit de buurt van gevels van panden te blijven waar mogelijk iets naar beneden kan vallen. Aan een aantal panden heeft de politie roodwitte linten als waarschuwing opgehangen.

Het epicentrum van de beving was in Alhendín, ongeveer 75,5 kilometer ten zuidwesten van het centrum van Granada. Foto's in lokale media tonen brokken steen op straat en op auto's en bewoners die kennelijk na de schok de straat op zijn gegaan en daar afwachten.

Een opvallende conclusie van mondhygiënist Rayen, die net twintig minuten hardhandig in je tandvlees heeft staan prikken: “Je tandvlees is hartstikke gevoelig, wist je dat?” Hij kijkt fronsend naar je gebit. “Heb je dat thuis ook weleens, dat je tandvlees gaat bloeden nadat je er ruim een kwartier lang met allerlei gereedschap in hebt zitten wroeten? Nee? Hmm, oké.”

Mondhygiënist Rayen concludeert dat het he-le-maal mis zit met je tandvlees. “Dit is niet goed hoor, het is helemaal ontstoken”, zegt hij met een pikhouweel in zijn handen. “Flos je wel? Misschien moet je dat wat vaker doen.” De assistente komt de ruimte binnen met een drilboor. “En probeer ook zeker drie keer per week met een professionele breekhamer je gebit te bewerken. Die kan je gewoon kopen bij de Gamma, of eventueel huren bij een bouwmarkt. Verder ziet je gebit er goed uit.”

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Financieel kan het zo niet doorgaan. Dat is de conclusie die Ronald J. eind mei trekt. Hij is dan bijna tien jaar directeur van cryptoplatform Knaken. Binnen een paar weken volgen een inval door de FIOD en een faillissement. Tegen Rijnmond vertelt hij over de rollercoaster waarin hij al tijden zit. “Ik heb al zes jaar niet goed kunnen slapen.”

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