The morning reboot:
- There's a new player coming to the field of facial recognition, Swedish startup Polar Rose will launch a public test of its software in March. Polar Rose's software analyzes digital photos to locate faces and converts the resulting data from 2D images to 3D models.
- The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that linking to copyright infringing materials is illegal. The case in question involves the now-defunct MP3s4free.net, a user-submitted link site leading to copyright infringing materials. But wait, I thought we were Person of the Year for our user-generated content? Oh, right…
- There are reports of a worm that may be circulating via a feature in Skype's popular VoIP service. The worm sends messages via Skype Chat, asking recipients to download and run a file called sp.exe. Sp.exe is a trojan horse that will then steal passwords and download additional files.
- The CEO of Phillips Electronics, Paul Zeven, has an interesting op/ed piece on CNet in which he wonders “if consumers really want all this. Have we gone too far? Are we in step with the needs of today's American consumer?” Needs? Needs? We don't need your stinking needs, just gimme my robotic vacuum cleaner and step away from the Wii.
