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The face jewellery that stops you being recognised by artificial intelligence

Ewa Nowak created the jewellery to combat the creeping number of facial recognition technologies being implemented globally. Noma Design Studio/Instagram

The ‘incognito’ the jewellery which has been compared to something an Egyptian Goddess would wear, is designed to combat the creeping number of facial recognition technologies being implemented globally.

Microsoft’s mixed reality ‘Minority Report’ glasses will revolutionise lab work – and Polish firm is behind the software

Holo4Labs’ mixed reality app means that users will be able to present digital data in the real world in the form of hologram-style images projected onto the lens of the glasses, not dissimilar to a VR game.

Keyed up team produce 'key of the future' to keep your home safe and secure

Attaching to your existing key the device lets you know who and when somebody has entered your home or office.

Polish programmer on team of world's most powerful rocket

Polish programmer Tomasz Czajka has worked on the control systems for SpaceX, which on Tuesday launched the world's most powerful rocket, called Falcon Heavy, the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) said on its website on Friday.

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News & Politics | History

“Save their memory” urges PM as he announces plans to buy former Nazi-German death camp which is now home to among other things a LUXURY villa

The first German concentration camp established outside the Third Reich, the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria saw around 30,000 Polish intelligentsia murdered. The total number of victims is estimated at anywhere from 72,000 to 122,000. PM Morawiecki said that “if the memory goes away, it is as if we have provided suffering twice to those who survived the unimaginable hell.”

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  • Poland signs EUR 191 mln ammunition supply contract

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Vanishing lives: Descendants of 17th century bearded radicals who fled to Poland from Russia to avoid religious persecution are now facing a new crisis as their numbers slowly dwindle out

It is easy to miss their presence - the three-barred crosses, the wooden banyas and the modest churches – unless you know what to look for. TFN travelled to the regions of Mazury and Suwalszczyzna in north-east Poland to track down the Old Believers, a minority which has almost disappeared, yet which still lingers among the hills, fields and virgin forests in the land of a thousand lakes.

Dan Session
Today we take a look at the Polish musicians who have been recording for ECM.
Why So Serious?
Sergiusz takes a look at two of Poland’s phenomenal female writers.

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