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Riya Eases Pain of Digital Image Management

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the everyone-needs-a-gimick dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes to tell us Wired is covering a new service that hopes to alleviate some of the woes of digital picture management using face-recognition technology. Riya, requires a bit of upfront training but thereafter it is able to identify and tag individuals in your pictures along with text recognition for street signs and the like. The service also plans to offer the ability to make your online photo albums public, private, or viewable by invitation.

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  1. They used... by Chickenofbristol55 · · Score: 0, Troll
    ...a picture of Bill Gates' face and instead of getting information about him on the image, their computer got a BSOD.

    Wait, that is information about him. Nevermind then.

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  2. In other news... by turgid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anusol eases the pain of digital rectal examinations by soothing haemorrhoids. Time for my pills.

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