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Spammers constantly mutate emails to avoid detection. Microsoft Research applied how-to-fight spam principles to help spot fragmented mutations in the HIV virus, helping in the search for a HIV vaccine.

The privacy concerns around the tracking of consumers and targeted advertising online may be coming to the physical world. At a Federal Trade Commission workshop about the privacy implications of face recognition on Thursday, all eyes were on the new “Find My Face� feature in Google+, announced at the conference. The event, however, also focused on how face detection is being used offline in “smart sign� technology and other applications.

Welcome to Minority Report in real life as police are being increasingly federalized by Homeland Security and taken deeper into the intelligence apparatus to hunt homegrown terrorists. Some police are armed with cutting edge crime detection tools. In New Jersey, cops can shine a red pre-crime spotlight to mark people up to a block away before they might commit a crime. The NYPD are testing a gun-scanning technology called Terahertz Imaging Detection. You could secretly be scanned to see if you are packing heat and not even know it.

With close to 72 million WordPress installs around the world, chances are you’re using the platform in one form or another. Wouldn’t it be quite handy to know which visitors to your WordPress based site are also logged into various social networks? Social Media User Detection plugin does it.

Apple has invented a killer 3D imaging camera that will apply to both still photography and video. The new cameras in development will utilize new depth-detection sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR and Laser that will create stereo disparity maps in creating 3D imagery. Additionally, the cameras will use advanced chrominance and luminance Sensors for superior color accuracy. And if that wasn't enough ...