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Here's How We Quickly Judge Human Faces (Newser Daily Digest)

Here's How We Quickly Judge Human Faces

(Newser) - Have masculine or feminine features? A big smile? Characteristics like these, it seems, are central to our snap judgements of people's faces. Using a computer model, researchers have figured out how different features affect our first impressions, the BBC reports. The system is based on 1,000 pictures of... More »

Newser located this story for you on Monday, August 4, 2014 7:10 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.

Student Could Get 8 Years for Sharing Paper Online

(Newser) - A grad student in Colombia who says he just wanted to help other researchers—and the endangered amphibians they study—could get up to eight years in prison for copyright infringement after sharing a research paper he found online. Diego Gomez, 26, posted the paper on a file-sharing site and... More »

Newser located this story for you on Monday, August 4, 2014 7:10 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.

What Goalies Get Wrong About Penalty Shots

(Newser) - Goalkeepers, it seems, fall victim to a classic problem faced by gamblers—and during a penalty shootout, it could cost them the match. The "gambler's fallacy" is the mistaken idea that, given a pair of outcomes, a string of one means the other is "due" to occur.... More »

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Guy Can't Pay Bill, Capital One Sends New Keyboard

(Newser) - It’s a problem for the Internet era—the wonky keyboard key. For one Redditor and Capital One customer, his wonky key was the number 2 … which is part of his credit card account number. Also unable to copy and paste the required 2 in the account field online,... More »

Newser located this story for you on Monday, August 4, 2014 7:10 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.