Facebook Finds Your Face
Today on the list: Facebook is poised to recognize faces, WikiLeaks read aloud to you, and the "real" person who was Henry Kissinger. Updated
Today on the list: Facebook is poised to recognize faces, WikiLeaks read aloud to you, and the “real” person who was Henry Kissinger.
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Scores Arrested, Including Truthdig’s Chris Hedges, for Civil Disobedience at White House Today, 135 anti-war rebels were arrested for civil disobedience at the snow covered gates of the White House, including Daniel Ellsberg, Ray McGovern, Chris Hedges, Margaret Flowers, Coleen Rowley, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and scores of veterans and supporters from WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. [Truthdig editor’s note: Some other sources put the number of arrests at 131.]
Facebook to Introduce Facial Recognition for Tags Facebook announced on Wednesday that it would launch facial-recognition technology that identifies people in uploaded photos and suggests tags.
Bored? Try Listening to the WikiLeaks Documents If your life is too on-the-run to read the endless supply of WikiLeaked documents, try listening to them instead.
Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Cast Doubt On Climate Change Science A top Fox News editor sent an email to staffers and journalists questioning the science behind global warming and directing them to always point out on air that the theory has its skeptics.
Christopher Hitchens on the real Henry Kissinger I must admit that I never understood the adulation Henry Kissinger has attracted. I started paying attention to politics in the early 1970s, and Kissinger was one of the main players on the world political stage at that point. His connection to the deeply repugnant Richard Nixon should have been enough to keep him out of the limelight after his boss was forced out of the presidency. Yet he somehow managed not only to stay in the public eye, but to increase his popularity.
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