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  • ICYMI: Plant-powered lamps, livestreaming AI and more

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    Kerry Davis
    Kerry Davis
    11.27.2015

    #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-852982{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-852982, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-852982{width:570px;display:block;}try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-852982").style.display="none";}catch(e){}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.