Face recognition is making headlines (geddit?) in Russia, with it being added to Russia's local Facebookski app and used very successfully. Successfully for what? is a good question, so expect some more annoying advertising appearing within your eye line soon. Can't wait.
Meanwhile, there's been some analysis of the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest, and the rise of the Polish entry raises some eyebrows/questions when the public vote was added to the expert jury vote. Basically, hey were near the bottom after the jury vote, near the top after the public vote. So what happened there? If I recall, the song was neither better or worse than all the others, and definitely not a stand out pop song, so my theory is that even though the large Polish populations in non-Poland countries voted, it must mean that locals didn't vote at all giving the Polish voters a disproportionate share of the public voting. If I were living in another country I would take the opportunity to vote for my homeland, but why should I want to vote for other countries' dross songs?
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