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China Now Requires Facial Scans of New Phone Customers
Facial recognition technology is perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of identification. I mean, in theory, it’s a good idea. It is, after all, certainly a lot harder for someone to steal your face than it is your pin-code. Then again, as was proven recently, it’s not entirely impossible…
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AI Helps Identify A Suspected Murderer
The use and growth of AI (artificial intelligence) in the world is currently one of the hottest topics of debate. While some believe it will bring a safer and more efficient world, others worry that it will eventually lead us into an Orwellian society or worse, that the robots may…
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Infamous ‘Gaydar’ AI Tries (Again), Fails (Again) & Shuts Down
‘Gaydar’ AI Is Shutdown After 2nd Test Fails Do you think it’s possible to determine whether someone is homosexual or heterosexual simply by looking at them? To me, it’s a concept that sounds absolutely ridiculous. For more than a little while, however, a somewhat disturbing ‘Gaydar’ AI has existed which…
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Latest Companion Robot from Japan is Designed to “Love”
Say Hello to the Lovot A Japanese robotics company called Groove X has launched their new Lovot companion bot. Typical companion bots are designed to perform tasks for its master. However, these Lovot bots are purely for companionship. Groove X claims that they have worked for years developing it under…
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London Holds Face Recognition Software Trial
London Trials Facial Recognition One of the most controversial technologies currently emerging on the market is facial recognition. Those with a more Orwellian turn believe that this could represent yet another step towards a police state where all of our actions are monitored. Others, however, see it as a potentially…
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Chest Augment Robot That’s Designed To Feed You Food!
Chest Augment Robot That’s Designed To Feed You Food! Pretty much every major health organisation keeps telling us one thing. We’re all eating too much food. Well, not all of us. There are clearly people out in places such as Africa who don’t have enough food. I’m pretty sure that this…
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Facial Recognition Technology Identifies Man In Croud of 60,000
Chinese Police Use Facial Recognition Technology to Identify 1 man in a Crowd of 60,000 Facial recognition technology is something of a divisive technology. Some support its use as an effective means of monitoring or detecting criminals while others fear that ‘big brother’ will be used to monitor everyone. Police…
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Famous Piccadilly Circus Advertising Board has Facial Recognition Added
Famous London Landmark Integrates Facial Recognition London is a fantastic city. As with all amazing places, it contains many landmarks known throughout the world. The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben (currently silent), the London Eye etc. One of these is also the famous London Picadilly advertising board. This has, for…
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Facial Recognition AI Being Programmed to Find Criminals
Do you look like a criminal? If so, you might need to start being a bit careful. An AI is in development which, if found to work correctly, may be used to fight crime through the use of facial recognition. Facial Recognition to track criminals At first thought, this might seem…
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Facezam Uses Face Recognition to Let You Creep on Facebook Profiles
A UK startup has launched a new app for finding Facebook users by using a photo of their face that is sure to benefit creepy stalkers and their trademark creepy stalking. Facezam allows users to snap a photo of someone and find their Facebook profile using facial recognition, though the…
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Robot Hotel Opens And Greets Human Guests
Science fiction dictates that a variation of building will be or is being run by robots, the notion of walking into a complex and being confronted by the manager who is “Dave 2.0” and is a shiny robot seemed farfetched. Well, now you can experience just this with the grand…
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Google’s Photo App Made Huge Blunder while Tagging People
A lot of things can go wrong when you work with automated processes and Google recently learned that the hard way as their animal tagging system went overboard and started tagging people. The recently released Photo app was a convenient addition to the already existing apps with automatic photo syncing…
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US Retailers Want In Store Facial Recognition Without Consent
Nine privacy advocates have abandoned a government organized forum around industry best practices for facial recognition. This comes after more than a year of talks, as corporations dug in, refusing to ask consumers for permission before using facial recognition on them. According to the privacy advocates, not one single corporation agreed…
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UK Police Scanning Festival-Goers’ Faces
Attendees at this weekend’s Download Festival in Donington have been subject to a rather Orwelian process of facial scans and RFID tracking by UK police. Leicestershire Police implemented the advanced surveillance technologies to detect and identify known criminals. The NeoFace facial recognition system has been used with the festival’s CCTV/IPTV…
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Intel Skylake Will Support Ultra-Fast Face Recognition with RealSense 3D Technology
Intel’s 6th generation Core processors codenamed Skylake got some extra attention on the first day of the IDF15 in Shenzhen and it looks like everything is going as scheduled with the chips. One of the mentioned highlights was the RealSense 3D technology that allows for much better facial recognition support…
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