DOES facial recognition work - it sure does and looks like it may come to the rescue of frustrated parents with precocious children.
Here's your chance to catch up to your five-year-old at finding that thick-rimmed glassed, stripey jumpered Wally in those infernal detailed Where's Wally books.
Developers have created a machine that uses facial recognition technology to identify Wally in a crowd of up to 300 other fictional faces, and it can do so in less than four seconds.
That should do the trick!
The facial recognition software is Google's own and the inventor Matt Reed, 41, says his robot's arm will point to Wally on the page, crushing your five-year-old's best times.
A LITTLE town 80 kilometres northeast of Wellington, New Zealand, called Carterton, has grown a veritable sh*t storm on social media worldwide.
Mayor of the 5,240-strong community John Booth had erected a sign outside public toilets that spelled out the offensive word: "Carterton does cool sh*t".
Booth said Carterton was having "a good old cackle" about the sign, even though it has impacted sensibilities, sensitivities and even funny bones around the globe.
A local butcher joined the town-trend erecting a sign saying his business helps "make ends meat".
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