PhotoSketch: Photoshop + Image Recognition = Awesome
This technology is just mind-boggling. PhotoSketch may be the coolest program we’ve seen or written about since the invisible speakers. PhotoSketch is an “Internet Image Montage” project from five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore. The basic premise, which they present in the form of a research paper [pdf], works like this: Step 1. Draw the outlines of the figures you want in your picture – anything from...
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According to tech news site Neowin, an anonymous user posted usernames and passwords for over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to web site PasteBin, including accounts on email domains like @hotmail.com, @msn.com, and @live.com. Neowin verified that the accounts are genuine, and that most appear to be based in Europe. Ars Technica reports, more specifically, those leaked accounts include usernames in alphabetical order beginning with the letters “ar” to “bl”....
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