Large gatherings such as weddings and conferences can be socially overwhelming. Pressure to learn people’s names only adds to the stress. A new facial-recognition app could come to the rescue, but privacy experts recommend proceeding with caution.
The app, called SocialRecall, connects names with faces via smartphone cameras and facial recognition, potentially avoiding the need for formal introductions. “It breaks down these social barriers we have when meeting somebody,” says Barry Sandrew, who created the app.
After receiving an invitation to download SocialRecall from an event organizer, the user is asked to take two selfies and sign in via social media. At the event, the app is active within a previously defined geographical area. When a user points his or her phone camera at an attendee’s face, the app identifies the individual, displays the person’s name, and links to his or her social media profile. To protect privacy, it recognizes only those who have agreed to participate and automatically deletes users’ data after an event.
Ann Cavoukian, a privacy expert who runs the Privacy by Design Center of Excellence praises the app’s creators for these protective measures. She cautions, however, that when people choose to share their personal information with the app, they should know that “there may be unintended consequences down the road with that information being used in another context that might come back to bite you.”
The start-up has also developed a version of the app for individuals who suffer from prosopagnosia, or “face blindness,” a condition that prevents people from recognizing individuals they have met. To use this app, a person first acquires an image of someone’s face, from either the smartphone’s camera or a photograph, and then tags it with a name. When the camera spots that same face in real life, the previously entered information is displayed. The collected data are stored only on a user’s phone, according to the team behind the app.
【小题1】Why was SocialRecall developed?A.To identify people. | B.To meet friends. | C.To organize events. | D.To take photos. |
A.How the app was created. | B.What makes the app popular. |
C.How the app functions. | D.What people can do with the app. |
A.By giving names to the photos kept in their smartphones. |
B.By collecting information previously entered in the phone. |
C.By providing the information of a person when they first meet. |
D.By showing the person’s information when it spots a stored face. |
A.It may put people’s privacy at risk. | B.It has caused unintended consequences. |
C.It can prevent some communication disorders. | D.It’s praised by users for its protective measures. |
In the world of trade, the Internet is king as it never sleeps and continues to take deal after people have rested for the night.
When it comes to online deal, safety is still important. Just a few weeks ago over $150 million were frozen by what seems to have been a mistake.
Zen Protocol, one of a block chain is built for finance.
Zen Protocol isn’t the first block chain to offer different choices.
A.One thing is certain |
B.With the development of online deal |
C.A smart agreement is a set of promises |
D.However, it’s one of the most safe choices for financial investors |
E.When you press the “BUY” button on your favorite clothing line |
F.It takes steps to solve the safety issue by ensuring the code works for you |
G.The reason is that an agreement, used to store funds, contained a simple bug |
Nowadays with the popularity of the Internet many people complain of the difficulty of finding their “true” identity in amongst all the conflicting messages and demands of the world around them.
This idea, that , somewhere deep down, is the “real” us, is as old as philosophy itself. It involves things like our values, our sense of purpose, the beliefs that make us who we are. We often ask the question, “Are you living the life you want to be living , or the life other people want you to live?”
The Internet has brought the opinions of others to our own lives as never before, and it is threatening our ability to understand who we really are.
To discover our true selves, maybe it’s time to disconnect. Not forever, that would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but for significant periods of our days, weeks, or months. Because, with disconnection comes quiet and with quiet comes the ability to reflect.
In researching my World Service documentary Default World, I spoke to a lot of people about their experience of technology. Many said they were trying to spend less time online, taking a break from Facebook, connecting only when they needed to. And they spoke with pleasure of rediscovering the physical world around them and the world of human-to-human communication. I think this is encouraging.
We are still learning how to be on the Internet, what effect this huge network of computers---a network we have built ourselves---has on our sense of self. We are at the moment, as Thoreau said of people in the industrial revolution, “tools of our tools”.
Disconnecting gives us a chance to turn the tables to see the Internet not as something that overwhelms (使不知所措) us but as a tool, which we use when we need it. Only then can we really understand who we are and what we can give the world. And that, deep down, is the real toot of our identity.
【小题1】What makes it difficult for us find the “real” us?A.The fast pace of our modem life. |
B.The flood of online messages. |
C.Losing our sense of purpose. |
D.Lacking values and beliefs. |
A.Spend time studying philosophy. |
B.Rediscover the physical world. |
C.Take a break from the Internet. |
D.Build a good social relationship. |
A.To win a victory. |
B.To follow a trend. |
C.To change the situation. |
D.To solve the problem. |
A.Lifestyle. |
B.Nature. |
C.Science. |
D.Health. |
Jack Ma’s net worth increased $2.8bn overnight as Alibaba forecast sales growth that topped every analyst’s estimate, despite the fact that China’s economy is slowing down.
Mr. Ma, aged 52 this year, is now the richest person in Asia and 14th wealthiest in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth has climbed $8.5bn this year to $41.8bn.
The latest surge came after China’s largest e-commerce company forecast 45 to 49 percent revenue(收入) growth in the year ending March, demonstrating how investments beyond online shopping are paying off. Shares in Alibaba, where Mr. Ma is chairman, rose 13 percent to a record high.
Alibaba and Tencent, which dominate online shopping and social media, respectively have ventured(冒险) deeper into new areas from cloud computing services to streaming music and video as the country’s economy slows. Alibaba is capturing more digital advertising spending by incorporating(合并) social elements such as video in its shopping sites.
Alibaba is holding meetings with investors this week. On Friday, the former English teacher said he wasn’t going to discuss corporate forecasts. He took the stage instead to describe how his company had become effectively the world’s 22nd largest economy—just after Argentina—in terms of transaction(交易) by never fearing to think big. Mr. Ma, who said Alibaba revises 10-year plans annually, foresaw the company becoming the fifth-largest eventually by 2036 by serving a burgeoning Chinese middle classes, taking advantage of global trade and making use of its valuable data.
Ma’s comments about the evolution of data-driven technology echoed Masayoshi Son, Chairman of Japan’s SoftBank. SoftBank—Alibaba’s largest shareholder—has invested billions in companies such as ARM with the intention of staking out a leading position in the future Internet of Things.
“The Internet of Things is going to be big because in the past, machines drink electricity,” Mr. Ma told investors. “In the next 20 years, machines will drink data. In the future, no company, no country, no business can survive without data.”
【小题1】What can we infer from the passage?A.Jack Ma has become the richest person in the world. |
B.China’s economy is not satisfying. |
C.online shopping grows rapidly worldwide. |
D.Alibaba is the largest company in the world. |
A.uncertainty | B.rapid decline |
C.dead time | D.sudden increase |
A.It has been providing cloud computing services. |
B.It makes profits mainly from digital advertising. |
C.It is China’s largest social media company. |
D.It aims to research into streaming music and video. |
A.The importance of the data. |
B.The investment of global trade |
C.The necessity sharing information. |
D.The future of the Internet of Things. |
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