Step by step on the journey to getting rid of the password — and with Google, now a leap? Amid a series of announcements, marquee names in tech — Google and Microsoft — have fired shots across the bow of static security efforts that involve your...
Alipay will soon add beauty filters to its facial-recognition payment systems all across China, according to reports. Chinese consumers are among the most avid users of beauty filters on messaging apps, and also the third-largest users of plastic surgery. The initiative is called “Smile to...
Smart glasses company Vuzix has developed eyewear with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that can recognize faces in a crowd, according to a report by TechCrunch. The technology was developed in partnership with software developer NNTC, and it will work with the company’s Blade smart glasses,...
Microsoft has reportedly removed from the internet a database of 10 million faces which it had been using to train facial recognition systems. According to the Financial Times, the database dubbed MS Celeb was used by military researchers and by Chinese firms Sensetime and Megvii, among...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough, according to a report by VentureBeat. The FBI began using the software in 2011, and it first became fully operational in September of...
At a meeting on Wednesday (May 22), Amazon Shareholders shot down two proposals to monitor and curb the eCommerce giant’s facial recognition service, according to a report by Reuters. Amazon’s technology, called Rekognition, has been under scrutiny as critics of the service have warned of...
Officials in San Francisco voted Tuesday (May 14) to ban the use of facial recognition technology by city workers in an 8 to 1 vote. According to a report in Reuters citing City Supervisor Aaron Peskin, the ordinance will become final after the city’s Board...
The eyeDisk, a USB flash drive that claims to be unhackable, has been hacked by a U.K.-based cybersecurity firm called Pen Test Partners, according to a report by TechCrunch. The device raised upwards of $21,000 in a Kickstarter campaign, and the company behind it began sending...
The city of San Francisco moved a little closer to banning facial recognition software after adding amendments to the Stop Secret Surveillance ordinance. According to a report in VentureBeat, the amendments to the ordinance will be open to public comment before the County Board of...
