‘Real Santa’ Can Be Identified From Imposters In Red Using Facial Recognition

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A team of researchers has decked the halls of science to ascertain whether Santa Claus has a distinguishable facial phenotype. Led by Dr Thomas Wright, a clinical geneticist from the University of Manchester, they’ve developed a deep-learning algorithm dedicated to identifying the jolly old man himself, and armed with a sack full of images of the holiday icon, delved into the question of whether we can spot the man purely by his looks and not his red suit.

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