Face Recognition Face-Off: How activists identify police with face recognition
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Face Recognition Face-Off: How activists identify police with face recognition

Private citizens are using AI-driven surveillance to turn the tables on law enforcement. Activists are using face recognition to identify abusive cops, according to The New York Times.

November 4, 20201 min read
Face Recognition Face-Off: How activists identify police with face recognition
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Face Recognition Face-Off: How activists identify police with face recognition

Private citizens are using AI-driven surveillance to turn the tables on law enforcement. Activists are using face recognition to identify abusive cops, according to The New York Times.

November 4, 20201 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
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Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
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Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read
Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.
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Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.

AI is helping avert traffic accidents by assessing the risk of car crashes at specific intersections. MicroTraffic, a Canadian video analytics company, predicts the odds that accidents will occur at intersections that traditional methods overlook.

August 19, 20201 min read
Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.
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Near-Miss Detection: Traffic monitoring AI predicts odds of collisions.

AI is helping avert traffic accidents by assessing the risk of car crashes at specific intersections. MicroTraffic, a Canadian video analytics company, predicts the odds that accidents will occur at intersections that traditional methods overlook.

August 19, 20201 min read
Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security
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Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security

A major retailer’s AI-powered surveillance program apparently targeted poor people and minorities. Rite-Aid, a U.S.-based pharmacy chain, installed face recognition systems in many of its New York and Los Angeles stores.

August 12, 20201 min read
Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security
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Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security

A major retailer’s AI-powered surveillance program apparently targeted poor people and minorities. Rite-Aid, a U.S.-based pharmacy chain, installed face recognition systems in many of its New York and Los Angeles stores.

August 12, 20201 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.

With the rise of AI-driven surveillance, anonymity is in fashion. Researchers are working on clothing that evades face recognition systems and designed a t-shirt that tricks a variety of object detection models into failing to spot people.

August 12, 20202 min read
Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.
Face Detection

Hidden in Plain Sight: Researchers make clothes that fool face recognition.

With the rise of AI-driven surveillance, anonymity is in fashion. Researchers are working on clothing that evades face recognition systems and designed a t-shirt that tricks a variety of object detection models into failing to spot people.

August 12, 20202 min read
Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.
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Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.

Football clubs are turning to computer vision for winning insights. Acronis, a Swiss cloud storage and security company, offers AI services designed to give a boost to some of the world’s top football clubs (soccer teams, to Americans), Wired reported.

July 8, 20201 min read
Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.
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Game Changer: Top football clubs are using AI to improve performance.

Football clubs are turning to computer vision for winning insights. Acronis, a Swiss cloud storage and security company, offers AI services designed to give a boost to some of the world’s top football clubs (soccer teams, to Americans), Wired reported.

July 8, 20201 min read
The AI of Small Things: Apple aims to simplify minor tasks with machine learning.
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The AI of Small Things: Apple aims to simplify minor tasks with machine learning.

Some tech companies boast that their AI will change the world. Apple’s latest just aims to make your life a little easier. Apple unveiled a flock of modest conveniences powered by machine learning at its annual developer conference.

July 1, 20201 min read
The AI of Small Things: Apple aims to simplify minor tasks with machine learning.
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The AI of Small Things: Apple aims to simplify minor tasks with machine learning.

Some tech companies boast that their AI will change the world. Apple’s latest just aims to make your life a little easier. Apple unveiled a flock of modest conveniences powered by machine learning at its annual developer conference.

July 1, 20201 min read
Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.
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Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.

Baidu backed out of a U.S.-led effort to promote ethics in AI, leaving the project without a Chinese presence. The Beijing-based search giant withdrew from the Partnership on AI, a consortium that promotes cooperation on issues like digital privacy and algorithmic bias.

June 24, 20201 min read

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