He was political cartoonist for the Observer and Sunday Telegraph.

November. It’s a month filled with so many important days full of memories and traditions. There’s All Saints Day, the Day of the Dead, Guy Fawkes Night, and, of course, Thanksgiving. But for college football fans, November is a month when a very sacred tradition begins anew. It arrives to give us hope for a Read more...The post Dan Patrick’s annual November college football report that gets quickly debunked is here appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Thwarted bid to blow up House of Lords made 17th century Britain even less tolerant

Thwarted bid to blow up House of Lords made 17th century Britain even less tolerant

Facial recognition is becoming ubiquitous, but a new AI tool created by researchers from the University of Chicago could help the privacy-conscious. The tool, named Fawkes, uses AI to “cloak” your selfies, adding a layer of imperceptible changes to the image so that facial recognition algorithms don’t recognize you.

The British Museum has a collection of more than 3,000 historically-significant masks. Not in the collection though is one of the most recognizable British masks of our time the Guy Fawkes mask. A key member of the conspiracy behind the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a plan to destroy the House of Lords and assassinate King James I, Fawkes is remembered on Guy Fawkes Night celebrations in the UK and the man himself has become something of a folk hero. — Read the rest

He was political cartoonist for the Observer and Sunday Telegraph.