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EU to Ban Predictive AI Technology
On May 11th, 2023, The European Parliament voted for amendments to be made to the AI Act, with those amendments including the ban of...
AI Face Identification Puts Innocent Man In Jail
Robert William, who was wrongfully identified by an AI algorithm and subsequently arrested, is suing the Detroit Police Department for the traumatizing experience he...
AI Can Now Recognize Your Friends
Surveillance technology has long been able to identify you. Now, with help from artificial intelligence, it's trying to figure out who your friends are.
With...
Speech Recognition for Industrial Manufacturing
The practice of using voice-controlled machines in manufacturing was previously considered prone to errors, and as a result, it was hardly ever adopted. Now,...
Journalist Used AI Voice To Break into Bank Account
A Vice journalist, broke into his own bank account using an artificially generated voice. When phoning the bank's automated service line, rather than speaking...
How Does Face ID Technology Look Today?
As biometric technology continues to develop faster and faster, promising safety and security to customers, so has facial recognition or face ID. Facial recognition...
New Technology will Prevent Fake Facial Identification
The advent of facial recognition technology carried with it the promise of great benefits, especially for law enforcement who use facial recognition to detect...
Top Five Technology Trends You Must Look Out For
In the next decade, technological innovation will have more and more impact on our lives in many fields. Technological innovation opens up new opportunities,...
Biometrics Are Still Lacking Accuracy
Are biometrics less secure than we originally thought? According to recent reports, many biometric implementations (whether that be fingerprint scanners or face recognition) can...
Iran Will Identify Hijab Law Breaking Woman Via Facial Recognition
The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new...
Expect Strict Regulations On Face ID
The use of live facial recognition (LFR) both in law enforcement and for other purposes is regulated, albeit controversial. Facial recognition technology clearly involves...
Can Technology Reveal Your Inner Emotions?
New research may have vital applications in areas such as human-intelligence analytics. Traditionally, emotion detection has relied on the assessment of visible signals such...
Two-Factor Authentication Is A Must!
With the world of security constantly changing and hackers adapting to those changes, nothing is perfect in terms of security. While two-factor authentication is...
How Accurate Is Facial Recognition?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has run over 390,000 facial recognition searches since 2011. The Department of Homeland Security has also said it...
Technology Giant Stands Behind These Innovative Eye Tracking Devices
Only this year Apple was granted a patent for one of their acquired eye-tracking patents from SMI SensoMotoric Instruments GmbH. The company's top engineer,...
Military Focuses On Operational Biometric Authentication
Advancing wearable technology for user authentication - that’s the focus of a new mission of the U.S. Army’s tactical network modernization team. “Try to...
Transform Your Smartphone into a Surveillance Camera
The second generation of a security app transforms a smartphone or tablet into a video surveillance camera, which becomes a part of an existing...
AI Offers Unbelievable Next-Gen Video Analytics
While artificial intelligence offers the power to drive a vast array of analytics solutions, many of the newest technology developments have been driven by...
AI Boxes in Retail Protecting Businesses
Retail companies have begun employing AI boxes as a means of bettering their businesses. These AI boxes can help with many aspects of these...
Biometric Solution for Improving Security at Airport Staff Access Points
Airport operator Fraport recently launched its “[email protected]” project to improve security at staff access control points using biometric solutions. Among the partners invited to...
Microsoft Expects HoloLens to Disappoint Soldiers
Microsoft and the Pentagon's project to develop a HoloLens-based mixed reality headset for the military has not gone smoothly as expected.
A contract worth up...
Use of Biometric Tools in Counter-Terrorism – New Guidelines
The use of biometric tools in warfare against terrorism varies from one country to the other. A renewed effort in capacity building and technical...
