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👕 Has the future arrived? Germany has come up with a shirt that can “hide” a person from AI cameras

Berlin artist Simon Weckert has unveiled Digital Camouflage — a bright Hawaiian shirt with a pattern designed to interfere with computer-vision systems trying to recognize a person.

To the human eye, it just looks like colorful clothing. But algorithms such as YOLO rely on visual cues like the outline of the head and shoulders, body proportions and overall silhouette. Weckert’s pattern is designed to disrupt those cues, causing the system in some tests to stop recognizing the wearer as a person.

The artist himself does not claim that the shirt makes someone invisible to every camera. The project is more about demonstrating the vulnerabilities of AI-powered surveillance.

And yes, this is the same Weckert who in 2020 created a fake traffic jam on Google Maps by walking down the street with a wagon full of smartphones.

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Matchday 1, Wednesday 🔒

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Anthony Elanga explains his celebration against Spurs ⚽️

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S-T-L 👏👏👏

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Enjoy our best Champions League goals in recent years 🎞️

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@theoldzealand Bring back FML… would’ve allowed you to test changes to the game ahead of time and thousands of users to play test it. I don’t remember why it was cancelled/stopped, but it was great to play FMLers from around the world 🤷‍♂️ (just realized that FML was in the early 2000s)

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UEFA have issued a statement in regards to the deadline set by FIFA to accept plans to sell a stake in the World Cup and has highlighted a growing opposition to the scheme 💬

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Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina https://t.co/T1A9E7Xqx3

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ARGENTINA, PLAYERS FACE FIFA DISCIPLINE ⚖️

FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against three players for their roles in a post-final fight as well as the football association for display of a banner saying the British-held Falklands Islands belong to Argentina.

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Special memories 🥰

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Taking it all in 🏟️

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Going head-to-head 🎾👊

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Leading from the front 👊

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"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠." 🏆❤️

An excerpt from @RorySmith's Correspondent Newsletter ⬇️

"It is, perhaps, a feeling that is only really perceptible when it is gone, when all of the bunting and the branding has been packed up and the fans have gone home and normal life resumes. It is the after-effect of what we call, with a half-smile, World Cup fever."

"It is, partly, the feeling expressed by the Scottish takeover of Boston and Miami, by the joy of the Ecuadorian fans in Philadelphia, by the mania of Argentina’s traveling army wherever they go. It is the glee with which visitors—and Europeans in particular—indulged a longstanding and basically global love of Americana and with which Americans embraced their visitors, a pre-existing bond that has perhaps withered in recent years and required a little mending."

"More than that, I think, it is the feeling that this is something we are all experiencing together. The viewing figures for the World Cup are always slightly exaggerated. Five billion people, or whatever it is claimed to be, is probably pushing it. But it is nonetheless true that there is nothing that bonds quite so much of the planet together as the World Cup. It is a truly global obsession, one that has dominated not just television schedules and news bulletins for the last six weeks, but social media feeds and text chains and real life public spaces across the world."

"That is where it draws its power; that is what makes it special; it is that which we notice when it is gone. For a month and a half, we have all—or enough of us that it feels like all— been watching and thinking about the same thing. That does not happen any more. That maybe has never happened with anything else. Only the World Cup does that. It is that feeling that lasts. It is our desire to chase it, to live in it again, that means we will now spend four years desperately waiting for the next one."

Read MORE in The Correspondent Newsletter 📫: https://t.co/l8dH6DMGLX

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Update: Jimmy Crooks will replace Pedro Pagés at catcher and bat ninth today.