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...were white," wrote another. HP declined to comment on their methods for testing the webcam or how involved they were in designing the software, but they did say the software was based on "standard algorithms." Often, the manufacturers of the camera parts will also supply the software to well-known brands, which might explain why HP isn't the only company whose cameras have exhibited an accidental prejudice against minorities, since many brands could be using the same flawed code. TIME tested two of Sony's latest Cyber-shot models with face detection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Face-Detection Cameras Racist? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...there's one thing Belgium is known for above all else - more than Tintin, chocolate and female tennis stars - it's beer. The Belgians have a rich beer-making tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, with more than 125 breweries today; beer, it is said, is the very lifeblood of the country. But trouble is, ahem, brewing. Supplies of Belgium's top brands - Stella Artois, Hoegaarden and Leffe - are rapidly running low in bars and supermarkets as unions have set up blockades outside the country's largest breweries to protest proposed job cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Dry: Belgium's Looming Beer Crisis | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...Details about how exactly the service will function are scarce, and YouTube didn't respond to requests for comment. What is known is that users will pony up a rental fee of a few dollars and have 24 to 72 hours, depending on the film, to watch the movie as many times as they want. The initial slate of offerings includes Homewrecker, Bass Ackwards, Children of Invention, One Too Many Mornings and The Cove. (See the top 10 viral videos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YouTube's Next Venture: Movie Rentals | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...Still, he had a long way to go. One of only five Republicans in the 40-seat state senate, Brown wasn't even the best-known person in his family. His wife Gail Huff is a popular television reporter. His daughter Ayla was a semifinalist on American Idol and a four-year starter on the Boston College women's basketball team. The couple's other daughter, Arianna, is a premed freshman at Syracuse University. As picture-perfect as the Brown family looks, the Senator-elect's upbringing was anything but. His parents each married four times, and his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mass Mutiny: How Scott Brown Shook the Political World | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...During the proceedings, Le Cong Dinh, a well-known U.S.-educated attorney, admitted that he had joined the banned Democratic Party of Vietnam and had called for multiparty democracy - a crime in Vietnam's single-party state. His other crime, according to the Ho Chi Minh City court, included attending a seminar on non-violent political change. Dinh is perhaps the most high-profile individual to ever be tried as a dissident in Vietnam. The former Fulbright scholar who studied law at Tulane University has represented several human rights activists, but he also successfully represented the state itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Crackdown, Vietnam Activists Sentenced | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

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