Facebook Acquired Face.Com

Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the world’s largest social-networking website, acquired Face.com, adding technology that enables facial recognition in photos.

Terms weren’t disclosed. Face.com helps users tag photos and find images online by distinguishing facial features on social networks and photo-sharing sites. Menlo Park, California- based Facebook already uses some of Face.com’s applications. The startup announced the purchase today in a blog posting.

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Face.com's software enables facial recognition in photos. Source: Face.com

“People who use Facebook enjoy sharing photos and memories with their friends, and Face.com’s technology has helped to provide the best photo experience,” said Ashley Zandy, a Facebook spokeswoman, in an e-mailed statement. “This transaction simply brings a world-class team and a longtime technology vendor in house.”

Facebook, which first sold shares to the public a month ago, has been making acquisitions to bring on talented developers, add features to the site and bolster the company’s mobile offerings. Since the beginning of April, Facebook has agreed to purchase photo-sharing site Instagram, location-based application Glancee and social-gifting company Karma.

Face.com, based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, is backed by Yandex NV (YNDX), Russia’s most-used search engine, and investing firm Rhodium.

Facebook rose 4.7 percent to $31.41 at the close in New York, marking a gain of 15 percent over the past three trading days. The stock is still 17 percent lower than its initial public offering price of $38 on May 18.

Google's long-rumored tablet- Is is a reality?

Google's long-rumored tablet, developed with help from Asus, is launching soon, according to a new report.
Android Authority is reporting today that it recently sat down with an "Asus representative" at Computex, who said that the co-branded Google tablet does, in fact, exist. What's more, the representative said that the Google tablet will launch at the end of June, seeming to indicate that the search giant's I/O conference could be home to the unveiling.

Rumors have been swirling for months that Google is looking to launch its own tablet at some point this summer. Some reports have suggested that the device would launch in June, while others claim July. The tablet is expected to come with a 7-inch screen, and according to a recently leaked benchmark, a 1.3GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Nvidia's ULP GeForce GPU is also expected to come bundled in the device.
According to Android Authority, the representative wouldn't divulge the Google tablet's pricing or availability. However, the person did offer some details on other Asus products launching soon, including the Padfone, which the representative says, will eventually come to the U.S. once carriers warm to it. The Asus Transformer Prime Infinity will launch at the end of the month in both Wi-Fi-only and LTE versions.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the 13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price.

Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features. Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.



Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites; in 2011 a version was released for the Android operating system and the iOS operating system.

Project Google Glass

Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD)

 

The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands, in a manner similar to the iPhone application Siri. The operating system software used in the glasses will be Google's Android.

Project Glass is part of the Google X Lab at the company, which has worked on other futuristic technologies, such as a self-driving car. The project was announced on Google+ by Babak Parviz, an electrical engineer who has also worked on putting displays into contact lenses; Steve Lee, a project manager and "geolocation specialist"; and Sebastian Thrun, who developed Udacity as well as working on the self-driving car project.

Project Glass

Imagine checking the sky in the morning and seeing the weather forecast superimposed into your field of vision, as if the window was your personal life dashboard. That's the idea behind Google's Project Glass, But instead of a window, it uses (as-yet invented) high-tech glasses that move through life as you do, providing guidance at your command.

Talk-To-Texting

While drinking your morning coffee, a friend invites you via text message to "meet up today." You say, "Sure! Bookstore in 20?" and your spoken words are captured, converted to text, and sent as a reply. You're meeting at the bookstore, but there's a problem.

Real Time Alerts

You were going to take the subway, but your Glass tells you that service is suspended at the station. Below the message, you're presented with alternative modes of transport.

Walking Directions

When the subway's out, there's always hoofing it. The Glass can present walking directions or any other travel information available online. During your walk, arrows appear at each cross street to guide you along. There are apparently no limits to this fantastic system.

Facetime

Later, you receive a call from another friend. You accept her call and realize she's sitting at a webcam. How lucky, because you just walked up to the roof of your building

Shared View

Sharing this beautiful sunset. These scenes came from a simulation video of Google Glass in action from the perspective of the person wearing the glasses. It's great to fantasize about things like this, but in reality, all the technology shown in the video could actually be done today if the software existed to implement it. That's what Google's Project Glass is all about—collecting ideas and resources for implementing this particular pie in the sky.

Magnetic Hill (India)

Magnetic Hill in Ladakh, India.

A sign near the Magnetic Hill in Ladakh, India
Magnetic Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. The hill is alleged to have magnetic properties strong enough to pull cars uphill and force passing aircraft to increase their altitude in order to escape magnetic interference. In reality, the effect is an optical illusion and there is no magnetic disturbance in the area at all.

The “magnetic hill” is located on the Leh-Kargil-Srinagar national highway, about 50 km from Leh, at a height of 11,000 feet above sea level. On its south side flows the Indus, which originates in Tibet and goes to Pakistan. The so-called magnetic hill has become a popular stop for domestic tourists on car journeys.