Facial recognition system

Akasa Air Adopts DigiYatra Facial Recognition System Across Major Indian Airports.Akasa Air and DigiYatra: This initiative will set new standards in the aviation industry, catering to the evolving needs of travelers in the digital age.Akasa Air has adopted DigiYatra’s facial recognition system across nine major airports in India.The airports include Bengaluru, New Delhi, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Kolkata, and Pune, marking a significant step towards enhancing the overall travel experience for…

By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current form, the law would go to some lengths to make AI more transparent, inclusive, and consumer-friendly in the countries where it’s in effect. What’s not to like, right?Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With……

Christine Romero-Chan / Digital Trends It’s not an understatement to say I am an Android smartphone fan, as an Android phone has been my faithful companion ever since I started using the HTC Desire in 2010. I’ve bounced from phone to phone in the 13 years since, and I’ve experienced good and bad phones alike. But in all that time, I’ve never spent much time with an Apple iPhone. I’m obviously not unfamiliar with iPhones, having used them during my time as a tech writer grabbing screenshots, downloading apps, and…

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is seeking approval from the FTC to implement facial age estimation technology to stop kids skirting parental controls. If the industry’s self-regulating body gets its way, kids and their parents may need to get used to taking selfies to sign up for games. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewIn a recent application submitted by the ESRB, digital identity firm Yoti, and youth digital media company SuperAwesome, the three organizations jointly asked the FTC for…

The author’s 1998 head-tracking algorithm used skin color to distinguish a face from the background of an image.Photo: Source: John MacCormick, CC BY-NDMaybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today.The dangers of bias and errors in AI algorithms are now well known. Why, then, has there been a flurry of blunders by tech companies in recent months, especially in the world…

Brooklyn resident Fabian Rogers knew he had to act in 2018 when his penny-pinching landlord suddenly attempted to install a facial recognition camera in the entrance of a rent-stabilized building he’d called home for years. Under the new security system, all tenants and their loved ones would be forced to submit to a face scan to enter the building. The landlord, like many others, tried to sell the controversial tech as a safety enhancement, but Rogers told Gizmodo he saw it as a sneaky attempt to jack up prices in a…

The Israeli military is increasingly deploying experimental new facial recognition software to monitor Palestinians and “supercharge segregation” in the West Bank, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday. Amnesty found that Israeli authorities are using a little-known advanced surveillance tool called “Red Wolf” to monitor and restrict Palestinian residents’ movements across key checkpoints in the region. Palestinians on the ground described the state’s vast and growing web of facial…

Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google. To make a bit of a splash, on Wednesday the company showed off its new AI-based Segment Anything Model that’s surprisingly capable ofidentifying and separating specific objects in images and video. Here’s the kicker, Meta is releasing it to anybody by making its new software open source. Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechThere’s quite a few good apps for erasing unwanted objects from images,…

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra delivers on nearly every aspect. And while the camera system is top-notch, it’s still got some room for improvement — and Samsung knows it. The company has been working on a major camera update that fixes a slew of bugs and enhances video quality, and a Samsung Community forum post confirms that it has released that update for all three models in the Galaxy S23 series. Joe Maring/Digital Trends Samsung is now rolling out the second March 2023 software update for the Galaxy S23,…

Clearview AI, the shady US facial recognition firm whose surveillance tech is used by at least 2,400 law enforcement agencies, says police have run nearly a million searches using its service. The company’s database of images scraped from social media sites now reportedly numbers around 30 billion, a staggering 50% increase from figures reported just last year. Despite repeated fines and years of pushback from civil liberties organizations, the figures suggest business is still booming for Clearview.Should Facial…