If your timeline is being inundated with celebrity lookalikes, that's because a new viral app has taken off. Gradient Photo Editor allows users to upload a selfie or face photo and the app will use artificial intelligence to gradually turn them into a celebrity that they allegedly resemble. The photo editing app is just over a week old and has already amassed a huge celebrity following including the Kardashians and the record producer Diplo. The app's results sometimes miss the mark. One USA TODAY reporter's results included the Spanish soccer player Marc Bartra, rapper Tyler the Creator and Brazilian actress Giovanna Ewbank.

Amazon will continue to sell its controversial facial recognition software to law enforcement and other entities after its shareholders shot down a proposal to reel the technology in. The vote effectively kills two initiatives brought before Amazon's board. One proposal would have required board approval to sell the software to governments, with approval only being given if the client meets certain standards of civil liberties. Another proposal called for a study on the technology's implications on rights and privacy. The exact breakdown of the vote is unclear and according to an Amazon representative it will only be made available via SEC filings later this week.

You will soon be able to instantly identify people using a futuristic facial recognition app on your smartphone. The app scans faces and brings up a profile with information about the person including links to their social media profiles. The augmented reality technology, from London-based firm Blippar, can recognise over 400,000 public figures and has a more than 99 per cent accuracy rate. It can even tell apart identical twins such as American actresses the Olsen twins, British Olympic runners the Brownlee Brothers and Irish pop duo Jedward. Blippar's augmented reality technology (pictured) can recognise over 400,000 public figures and has a more than 99 per cent accuracy rate.

The company behind the world's first sex robot has revealed its customers most frequently want sex dolls that look like Marilyn Monroe. The American sex robot manufacturer True Companion disclosed the leading lady is requested more frequently than any other celebrity. However, there is no Monroe sex robot as the company cannot recreate someone without their permission. Instead the company says it creates a'very beautiful blonde with a full figure' as a substitute. An American sex robot manufacturer revealed the Marilyn Monroe is requested more frequently than anyone else with half of orders the company receives are for celebrity lookalikes.

You many not be a star, but you could look just like one. Scientists have created celebrity-spotting software which uses artificial intelligence to match faces to celebrities in a matter of seconds. Named Clarifai, you can test it out for yourself here - and the results may surprise you. Which one is a Jersey Shore star? The AI matched science reporter Tim Collins (left) with American television personality Ronnie Ortiz-Magro who stars in Jersey Shore (right).

Recently we've been participating at Days of Computer Science, organized by the Museum of Post and Telecommunications and the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The project brought together pupils and students from around the country and hopefully showed them what computer science is mostly about. Most children would think programming is just typing lines of code. It's a way of thinking, a way to solve problems creatively and efficiently. And even better, computer science can be used for solving a great variety of problems.