We ran 'Game of Thrones' characters through Amazon's facial recognition software

While facial recognition software has made huge leaps recently — being used for security in airports, catching criminals on the streets, and even distracted students — it just took the next, big leap we've been waiting for: recognizing celebrities. 

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Amazon's Rekognition tool, launched last year, has a bunch of great uses, including image moderation that can flag offensive images and other image detection tools useful for websites. 

But now it's added — drumroll — celebrity recognition! It's useful for photo indexing if you have a site full of celebrities (like, say, a boy band fan page which I most certainly do not have, don't bother trying to find it).  Read more...

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