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...idea of the SAGHAH network is to link global health groups and campaigns across Harvard and to provide them with a common platform to collaborate, but to otherwise support individual groups in what they do best,” said Cecil M. Haverkamp, a staff member of the School of Public Health and member of the SAGHAH board...
...downsamples them, or reduces the level of detail, before analyzing them. That's one reason why a person watching the YouTube video can easily make out the black employee's face, while the computer can't. "A racially inclusive training set won't help if the larger platform is not capable of seeing those details," says Steve Russell, founder and chairman of 3VR, which creates face recognition for security cameras...
...Still, YouTube isn't completely outmaneuvered. The site has massive traffic and will benefit from (essentially) free advertising across Google's network: the search giant can run ads for the new rental platform on YouTube, in Google search results and in its suite of popular services like Gmail and Google Maps. Google also has an established payment platform in Google Checkout, which will make paying for the rentals relatively easy...
...what may set the service apart is independent films. Alongside the rental program, YouTube is launching a program called "Filmmakers Wanted" that provides a platform for independent filmmakers to handle their own marketing and distribution via YouTube without relying on studios. According to the blog post that announced the plan, "They can decide the price of their videos and the rental duration; they can decide when and where their content is available; and they can keep 100% of their rights...
...They can't say that they're different from the old crooks," says Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Business as usual is not what the public expects from an underdog party that just won the people's mandate on a platform of regime change. Dujarric, however, says that Ozawa is widely understood to be an "old-fashioned" politician. "If you want Mr. Clean, you're not going to date Ozawa," he says. "Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. That's his weakness...