#122: You’d Better Recognize

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about recognition: facial recognition, keystroke recognition, Dothraki recognition.

• UMD Cyber Defense Training Camp
• RescueTime. Sorry.
• NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over
• Radio Hack Steals Keystrokes from Millions of Wireless Keyboards
• Cameras Are Getting Better at Seeing if You’re Nervous
• Meanwhile: Machine Learning is Fun! Part 4: Modern Face Recognition with Deep Learning
• Galaxy Note 7 will ship with iris scanner.
• Craigslist: OFFICE OF PUBLIC ART SEEKS KLINGON, ELVISH, OR DOTHRAKI SPEAKER (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf
• Google’s Dialer App Now Warns You When You’re Getting a Call From a Spammer
• Amazon Patents Way To Turn Lampposts, Church Steeples Into Drone Perches
• Dave got published: How Automation Can Unleash Government IT Innovation
  • See also D&G 101 — Ansible: Good Technology, Great Coffee



• Defense in Depth on October 6


• Red Hat Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure


• Why Carry Your Suitcase When You Can Attach it to Your Bottom?


• Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 1

Cutting Room Floor

• Arduino absentmindedly blows bubbles
• Open Source Gardening Robot ‘FarmBot’ Raises $560,000
• Robo hobo bamboozles passers-by
• Ourobot: What happens when a snake bot swallows its own tail
• Watch a Bratwurst-Grilling Robot Serve Up Perfectly Seared Sausages
• Mother was walking the dog, saw Boston Dynamics walking their robot.
• Over 1000 robots break world record with synchronised dance routine
• There’s going to be a Raspberry Pi driverless racing championship
• A Hamster Powered Machine That Draws Pictures Of Hamsters
• Fake Chalets: Unmasking the Bunkers disguised as Quaint Swiss Villas
• Mid-Century Men At Vintage Computers
• QUESS.
• A curated magazine, written by computers, for people. (h/t emorisse)
• Systematic breakdown on Bladerunner production design? Coming right up.