Amazon’s AWS Alexa and Facial Recognition Ditch Nvidia
Amazon’s swapping the data centers for its machine-learning based services to a custom chip.
Tag: facial recognition
Engineer and YouTuber Shane Wighton has made a basketball hoop that uses a Microsoft Kinect and facial recognition in order to build a basketball hoop that means the shooter… Read More
Google released an update for the Pixel 4 today requiring users to have their eyes open when using face unlock to open the phone. Read More
Microsoft says it will no longer invest in third-party facial recognition companies following a controversy around its funding of Israeli startup AnyVision, which critics and human rights… Read More
Six officials in San Francisco this week could change the legal landscape for facial recognition technology in the heart of America’s technology industry. Read More
‘Automated Racism’: Chinese Police Are Reportedly Using AI to Identify Minority Faces
Facial recognition technology can target entire populations of a specific demographic, and in the wrong hands, can be used as a powerful tool for discrimination. In China,…
Amazon shareholders will vote in May on a proposal to ban the sale of facial recognition technology to governments after beating an attempt by Amazon itself to… Read More
Today brings some small relief for New Yorkers worried about the face-scanning tech being used at the city’s entry points: So far, the system has reportedly been… Read More
On Sunday, tech analyst Matthew Brennan tweeted an unsettling video of a facial recognition kiosk at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. The kiosk seemed to give Brennan minutely… Read More
On the heels of this week’s news that a major tech company had scraped nearly a million images off Flickr to help train a facial-recognition tool, Senate… Read More