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Invaders from the planet Kashyyyk?

They are servicemen of the Ukrainian special operation forces posing for photos ahead of a cyber games tournament, part of a consumer electronics exhibition in Kiev, Ukraine September 28, 2019.

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Downtown Las Vegas in 1955

Secret cameras use Artificial Intelligence to catch drivers using mobile phones

New South Wales in Australia intends to address the problem of distracted driving. The New South Wales Transport revealed on Sunday that it will roll out special cameras designed to catch drivers using mobile phones.

The detection cameras use artificial intelligence to detect drivers using mobile phones 24 hours a day. They can also survive in all weather conditions.

The devices will be set up in fixed and trailer-mounted spots across New South Wales starting in December.

How long before we see that technology in this country?

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The Buzludzha Monument to Communism lies abandoned in Bulgaria

On the remote Buzludzha peak in the mountains of Bulgaria stands an unusual abandoned monument built to honor Communism.

Construction work began in 1974 and was completed in 1981. The monument was abandoned soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991.

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A study finds people who post selfies are seen as less likable and less successful

If you care what other people think of your social media posts, you may want to think twice before uploading selfies, according to new research from psychologists at Washington State University.

In a study that will publish this fall in the Journal of Research in Personality, individuals who posted a lot of selfies were almost uniformly viewed as less likeable, less successful and more insecure than people who posted more “posies” — that is, traditionally posed photos that appear to be taken by someone else.

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Photo evidence that Cory Booker is the selfie professional he claims to be

“I see a phone out, I have a reflexive instinct to just grab it, stop, switch, photo,” Senator Cory Booker says in a new video the presidential hopeful posted to Twitter last Friday.

“Very funny, Team,” Booker says in his tweet introducing the video montage of him running from one fan to the next, grabbing cell phones and taking selfies.

“I’m a selfie professional. I got a master’s degree. This is what I went to college for,” Booker playfully declares in the brief video.

It’s nice to know he excels at something.

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Titanic photo taken April 1912 four days before the ship sank

Human Statue of Liberty - 18,000 soldiers used in this unique display in 1918

This photograph shows a bird's-eye view of 18,000 soldiers at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, positioned in the shape of the Statue of Liberty.

Great care in planning was required because of foreshortening.

The photograph was taken in 1918 and was used to promote war bonds near the end of World War I.