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Organise your video collection

AMD has developed facial recognition technology to enable users to organize and search video clips based on the people featured in them.

AMD executive Richard Gayle demonstrated to Tom’s Guide how AMD Content Manager, uses facial recognition to browse through a group of local videos to find specific faces.

There is an index that displays the people’s faces that have been detected throughout the video clips.

The user can edit the names of the people as well as add keyword tags to help improve future searches for specific people.

For instance, if you are searching for videos that feature one person, you can click on his or her respective face to pull up the corresponding videos.

Additionally, if you want to narrow a search to a specific person combined with a keyword tag, you can drag the face icon and click on the desired keyword.

Once you click on the video you wish to view, a player appears in the right windowpane, along with a timeline displayed at the bottom with a list of all the people who appear in the video.

The timeline is separated into various coloured boxes to mark the exact moment in the video when each person first appears on screen, so you do not have to watch the entire video to see the bit you want.

The application also has facial recognition capabilities that allow users to do some basic editing, such as compiling a single montage video of any individual or individuals.

While this is pretty good technology, it probably does not have any major use yet on its own.

Gayle said it is unlikely that AMD will release Content Manager in its current form but will license it to OEMs that are able to rebrand the application before offering it on their respective systems.

He claimed that only AMD processors have sufficient power to operate the application, because of the processor’s ability to have the CPU, GPU and memory controller work closely together.

Not the greatest hack all time

The Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military command that oversee operations in the Middle East were hacked by a hacker group sympathetic to ISIS.

"American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back, ISIS," the hackers posted on the U.S. Central Command Twitter feed, using an acronym for the hardline Islamist group, which has taken control of parts of Syria and Iraq.

Of course, it only managed to take over the Army’s Twitter and YouTube feeds which is annoying rather than important

US officials acknowledged that the incident in which the accounts were "compromised" for about 30 minutes was embarrassing but played down the impact. The FBI said it was investigating.

Pentagon spokesman Army Colonel Steve Warren said the Defense Department "views this as little more than a prank, or as vandalism."

On Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard

G.Skill was quite keen to announced that its DDR4 module managed to set a new frequency DDR4 memory record with a 4255MHz frequency at CL 18-18-18 latencies.

Back when it launched, it was quite obvious that we will see some quite high frequency records from DDR4 memory and the new G.Skill record of 4255MHz is definitely a great result, especially considering that it was done on a 4GB module with 18-18-18-64 latencies.

The G.Skill DDR4 module was pushed to 4255MHz on the Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard paired up with Intel's Core i7-5960X processor.

The entire setup was heavily cooled down to sub-zero temperatures with LN2 and G.Skill was quite happy to supply the CPU-Z validation page link.

Fully custom GTX 980

Both EVGA and Vince k|ngp|n Lucido have released a couple of teasers showing details of what appears to be the upcoming EVGA GTX 980 Classified K|NGP|N Edition graphics card.

Once again, the EVGA Classified K|NGP|N Edition will feature a translucent cooling shroud with a dual-fan cooler. The new GTX 980 Classified graphics card will have a fully custom PCB with massive VRM powered by no less than two 8-pin and single 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors.

While EVGA might rather wait for the GM200 GPU rather than launch the GTX 980 Classified K|NGP|N Edition with the GM204 GPU, which was what MSI did earlier when they decided not to make a GTX 980 Lightning version, we still do not have the exact details. EVGA is currently at CES 2015 show in Las Vegas and we might be able to sneak out few details regarding the new GTX 980 Classified K|NGP|N Edition.

Until we hear more, you can check out some teasers that both EVGA and Vince k|ngp|n Lucido released on their Facebook pages.