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Now you can liven up even the dullest snap taken with a cellphone camera. Pantech, based in Seoul, South Korea, has launched a cellphone that lets a user snap someone’s portrait and then play with the image by changing the background or adding accessories such as glasses, a beard or a hat. Face recognition and tracking software ensures the face is always in the centre of the shot.

In the darkness of the ocean, sound can often track the movements of whales and other marine mammals better than sight. To train computers to identify and track individual whales, researchers at…

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