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By Jessica Roy 3/27 10:34am

Tweens No Longer Capable of Smiling Normally Laments Mother Alarmed By Pouty Selfies

The Daily Mail’s latest troll is a veritable master stroke. British writer Shona Sibary, a true international treasure who has previously written about smacking her kids and admitted that she’d rather play Boggle than have sex with her husband, now tackles modern day culture’s most insidious trend: the duckface selfie.
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By Jessica Roy 4/25/12 3:18pm

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NYU ITP Student Builds a Camera That Prints Descriptions Instead of Photos

The Descriptive Camera hit the front page of Reddit’s r/technology subreddit today, and for good reason. The project, built by NYU ITP student Matt Richardson, uses the Amazon Mechanical Turk Service to turn a photo into a textual description of the captured scene. Read More

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