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Google Group Members to Use Facial Recognition to Identify London Rioters | TechCrunch

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Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. → Learn More A new Google Group called “ London Riots Facial Recognition ” has appeared online, in the wake of the riots that rocked the U.K. capital over the weekend. The group’s goal is to use facial recognition technologies to identify the looters who appear in online photos. The group appears to be thoughtfully considering its actions, in threads titled “ Ethical Issues ,” and “ Keeping Things Legal ,” for example. They’ve also stated that “it’s important we only use legal sources for images.”

This is a guest post by Mark Suster , a 2x entrepreneur turned VC with GRP Partners where he focuses on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Suster on his startup blog and on Twitter at @msuster. Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. Why is that?

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Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next? | TechCrunch

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IBM and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have cancelled plans to build a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded supercomputer due to unexpected financial and technical costs, they said. Several days ago IBM terminated its $208 million contract with the University of Illinois to provide a 1 petaflop, 200,000 processor-core supercomputer based on its Power7 processor for the Blue Waters project. NCSA is a part of the university. IBM's work was expected to be completed by next year and the finished project was meant to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. "The innovative technology that IBM ultimately developed was more complex and required significantly increased financial and technical support by IBM beyond its original expectations," according to a joint statement by the partners on the project.

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IBM, NCSA Scrap Petaflop Supercomputer Plans -- InformationWeekIBM, NCSA Scrap Petaflop Supercomputer Plans - government Blog

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For years now, we’ve worked closely with our friends at Twitterfeed to enhance their social media publishing tools with branded short links and realtime data. Today, we are excited to announce that we have acquired Twitterfeed, and to welcome both Twitterfeed and its users to the bitly family. The publishing workflow provided by Twitterfeed constitutes a core part of the bitly ecosystem.

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Conceding that opponents of AT&T’s attempt to buy rival T-Mobile for $39 billion may have a point, the FCC decided late Monday to combine its review of that deal with a smaller one in which AT&T is attempting to purchase the wireless licenses currently held by Qualcomm. In a letter issued by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, the commission concluded that there is enough evidence that the impact of the two deals is related and that they will be considered at the same time. Continue Reading “The commission's ongoing review has confirmed that the proposed transactions raise a number of related issues, including, but not limited to, questions regarding AT&T's aggregation of spectrum throughout the nation, particularly in overlapping areas,” wrote Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan.