An anonymous reader links to an article at IB Times according to which: China has unveiled the world's first facial recognition ATM, which will not allow users to withdraw cash unless their face matches their IDs. The machine was created by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based technology company Tzekwan. It has a camera installed in it that captures the facial features of the user then compares it with a database of identification photos.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

turkeydance writes: What job is hardest for a robot to do? Mental health and substance abuse social workers (found under community and social services). This job has a 0.3 percent chance of being automated. That's because it's ranked high in cleverness, negotiation, and helping others. The job most likely to be done by a robot? Telemarketers. No surprise; it's already happening. The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like. If it says your job will likely be replaced by a machine, you've been warned.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Allow components to depend on other components

implementation of AGA BayRate (player ratings) as perl object

Dependency Injection via method signatures

Identify IPs that fall within collections of network blocks

Dist::Zilla plugin bundle used by Plicease

Dist::Zilla plugin bundle used by Plicease

Bindings for oVirt REST API

Vertically pad a string

JSON tree widget

Perl Data Language

Dist::Zilla plugin bundle used by Plicease

Moscow bans 'hostile' European leaders and politicians from entering Russia.