ICYMI: Plant-powered lamps, livestreaming AI and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: A coder from the Netherlands used a live webcam feed for a walk around Amsterdam, running neural network code that identified everything in view. Despite some obvious set-backs (it thought the creator was wearing a suit when he really wore a zip-up hoodie, natch), it impressively identified boats in a river and stacks of bikes. Researchers in Peru invented prototype lamps that run off of the bacteria of living plants. And a new security system for the camera-hacking adverse works by setting up a motion-detecting mesh network.
We are also rounding up the week's headlines and while we love the intergalactic friendliness of China and the US sharing a hotline to prevent space misunderstandings, we suggest starting your Black Friday by acquainting yourself with the purse that tells you to not spend money.
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