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Reuters launches video search powered by Viewdle facial recognition
When we first heard about Viewdle yesterday we dismissed the company as yet another online video search and indexing system. But now that we've played with Reuters' new "Face Search" powered by Viewdle, we have to say, we're impressed.
Here's how it works. You type in a name, like Britney Spears or George Bush. Viewdle searches through an index of Reuters videos and pulls up clips featuring those people. As the video plays, you'll notice a little white box around the face of the person you searched for. Some videos include multiple faces in the index. You can click on any face with a white box to find more videos featuring that person. Or you can look under the player for a list of faces in the video you're watching and the times at which they appear in the video.
We can easily see this technology being crucial to online video sites featuring news, entertainment, and of course pornography.
Here's how it works. You type in a name, like Britney Spears or George Bush. Viewdle searches through an index of Reuters videos and pulls up clips featuring those people. As the video plays, you'll notice a little white box around the face of the person you searched for. Some videos include multiple faces in the index. You can click on any face with a white box to find more videos featuring that person. Or you can look under the player for a list of faces in the video you're watching and the times at which they appear in the video.
We can easily see this technology being crucial to online video sites featuring news, entertainment, and of course pornography.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
