Many of you have probably already heard of Bethany Storro, a Vanouver, Washington resident who, back in August, claimed an African-American woman in her 20’s threw acid on her face as she called out, “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?”. Recent news coverage now says that the story that Storro told was…
Read MorefMRI: The New Lie Detector?
A new study, conducted by scientists at Stanford University, claims that machinery can be programmed to detect if a person is being truthful or deceptive. The article, written by Tommy Sander and published on Monday September 13, 2010 in USC’s Neon Tommy news website, is interesting to say the least . Machines already control or…
Read MoreComputers Reading Your Emotions
Stephen Shankland, a technology journalist, wrote an August 2010 article for CNet.com regarding the development of emotion recognition technology, which would enable computers to detect what the user is feeling in real time. The World Wide Web Consortium (the organization which standardizes many Web technologies) is attempting to standardize and formalize emotional states using a…
Read MoreRoger Clemens 60 Minutes Interview Analyzed
On September 4, 2010 we posted a few videos of Roger Clemens, who was indicted about a month ago on three counts of making false statements, two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. As mentioned previously, the charges of perjury and making false statements stem from a report on doping in…
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