A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet.

Face.com has produced technology that can identify individuals on social networking sites and online galleries by comparing their image against a known picture of them.

It means detailed profiles of individuals can be built up purely from online photographs and critics have said it could lead to exploitation by employers.…

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First they came for the Communists,  and I didn’t speak up,    because I wasn’t a Communist.

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America enters a new era of pain and destitution

Take your pick – join the Marines or queue for the soup kitchen

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I went to get my hair cut the other day and waited 10 minutes while the elderly barber finished buzz-cutting a young Mexican American. After the young man had exited under his thin skullcap of black stubble, Don the barber sighed and said, "That's the third boy I've cut today who's headed…

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Any citizen, any foreign spy, any member of the Taliban, and any terrorist can go to the WikiLeaks website, and download detailed information about how the U.S.…

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The Islamic Republic of Iran plans to establish a new economic order in the world in coordination with the other Muslim nations in a bid to pave the way for the progress and advancement of the Islamic countries," Rahimi said, addressing the Iran-Iraq Friendship society here in Tehran on Monday.



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The much maligned Road Home Program, which was supposed to help homeowners rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, has almost 800 million dollars of funds that administrators of the program have not spent.

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