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MWC 2018

Love at First M-Byte: The Most Anticipated Car of the Year Opens Its Doors

It’s always a pleasure getting behind the wheel of a powerful, gorgeous car. It’s even better when said car is a concept...

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Security

Fighting Facial Recognition Bias With IBM’s Diverse Dataset

[adrotate group=”9″] With ever-growing concerns about facial recognition systems that might be biased and end up targeting specific groups of people,...

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MWC 2018

Palm Scanners and Facial Recognition, Soon at the Subway in Beijing

[adrotate group=”9″] The 10 million people that the subway in Beijing expects daily will use the latest biometric technology to access...

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Phones

Mobile Users Expect Always-On Face Recognition And Smart Profiles, Survey Finds

A couple of weeks ago, we dared you to come forward and speak your mind. Did you trust face recognition on your...

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Security

DHS to Scan Travelers Using Facial Recognition

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was considering adopting a facial recognition system that would analyze photos of people in...

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Security

AI Researchers Create ‘Privacy Filter’ That Impairs Facial Recognition Software

Professor Parham Aarabi and graduate student Avishek Bose from U of T Engineering have managed to create an algorithm that disrupts facial...

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Security

Chinese Students Are Monitored with Facial Recognition Cameras

China has fully embraced facial recognition technology, previously making headlines with their own “Skynet” technology, a tech that uses facial recognition to...

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Security

Congress Wants Answers About Amazon Rekognition

Earlier this week we reported on Amazon’s controversial face-recognition technology (Rekognition) that is being used by law enforcement. Civil rights organizations are unhappy...

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Security

Civil Rights Organizations Unite to Stop the Use of Amazon Face Recognition

Civil rights organizations are forcing Amazon to stop selling its artificial intelligence (AI) software to government agencies for fear that this software...

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Security

Facebook Supposedly Took Down 21 Million Inappropriate Posts

Facebook is continuously trying to fight not only inappropriate content, but also spam, hate speech, terrorist propaganda, and fake accounts, all of...

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Security

New Technology Identifies Thousands of Lost Indian Children

In India, there are almost 2000,000 missing children, with around 90,000 placed in child care institutions. Most of those lost have been...

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Security

Facial Recognition Fail: 2,300 People Falsely Identified As Potential Criminals

Facial recognition is one of the hottest topics today and not just because it offers easy smartphone authentication. Companies and authorities believe it...