HP Camera Tracking Software Doesn’t Work on Black Faces

By Tuesday December 22, 2009

Whoops! PR disaster ahoy!



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  1. JSUNBurns says:
    12/25/2009 at 2:35 pm

    Maybe the camera just can’t see men. There are way too many variables here. One test subject was a man and the other a woman. How much do the test subjects weigh? What is their sexual orientation? Why do we always need to blame everything on race?

    By the way… I’m only kidding of course!

    “The short movie, uploaded earlier this month, features “Black Desi” and his colleague “White Wanda”.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8429634.stm

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  2. JSUNBurns says:
    12/26/2009 at 5:23 am

    Dark skin just doesn’t reflect light well.

    Surprise, surprise. Blame it on HP.

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  3. swingarino says:
    12/30/2009 at 9:50 am

    Do not understimate the forces that knocked off JFK!!

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  4. bsj2312 says:
    1/2/2010 at 12:26 am

    Since Dvorak is a trusted columnist, I came to this site thinking I would gleam some kind of insight into this phenomenon. Instead, I am bombarded with hateful racial, nay RACIST, stereotypes. I can say with certainty, this is the first and last time I will be visiting this website and I will most certainly be skipping Dvorak’s column’s in print as well. What exactly is your “comment moderation” used for?

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