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UK Retailers Using Facial Recognition Software, Smartphones to Track Customers

C O N T E N T S: KEY TOPICS UK retailers are able to follow and target customers using facial recognition software and handset identifiers broadcast via Wi-FiThe UK’s data protection watchdog has warned that retailers can.(More…) Simon Rice, group manager for technology at the Information Commissioner?s Office (ICO) in the UK, explained that this technology helps retailers “use the customer…

When is an Arsenal fact not a fact? When it’s in the Independent

Perhaps I was misinformed.

I always thought that a fact was a tangible thing that could be tested and shown to stand up to scrutiny.

That the sun rises each morning is a fact. That water is wet is a fact. That Arsenal would have won the league had they signed Cesc Fabregas? Not so much.

But that’s the assertion that Simon Rice has made in the Independent, a claim that was right there in the…

Former NFL player Simeon Rice, graduate of New York Film Academy's Filmmaking Conservatory

Former NFL player Simeon Rice, 37, is breaking into a new industry after taking a year long filmmaking program with the New York Film Academy. Simeon, who stimulated NFL defensive lines for more than a decade including playing in the Superbowl, decided to attend New York Film Academy's program at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and try his hand at directing. His short film When I was King showed this past week in the Gasparilla International Film Festival. Says Simeon on his decision to direct a film:

"I think in 3-D already. I already thought in motion pictures. That's where is all came from, visual stimulation."

Simeon wrote, cast and directed the film. Comments actress Cara Picton, "It was a very professional shoot. you don't always get that with new filmmakers. Simeon knew how to steer us in the right direction."

Jokes Simeon Rice, "I loved football. That's my true love. This [filmmaking] is my mistress."