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A research team from Kyoto University has significantly advanced infrared spectroscopy technology by integrating a quantum light source, overcoming previous limitations of FTIRs regarding sensitivity and size. This breakthrough enables the creation of compact, efficient scanners that can accurately identify a wide array of materials, setting a new standard for portable, high-performance devices in various fields, including environmental monitoring, medicine, and security. Credit: KyotoU/Shigeki TakeuchiKyoto University…

Last Updated: February 14, 2024, 12:11 ISTIndia Mandates High-Security Number Plates for All Vehicles: Here's How to Get Yours Easily. (Photo: Spinny)India mandates High-Security Registration Plates (HSRP) for all vehicles, enhancing security and identification. The Indian government made a change to vehicle number plates a few years back to solve identification issues.These plates, called High-Security Registration Plates (HSRP), come with special features like a 3D hologram and a laser-etched serial number to prevent…

With spring having sprung for many of us around the world, now is usually the time when us fair-weather gardeners assess our outdoor space and try to remember just exactly what it was that we planted last year.If you’re worried you may be about to uproot a prized flower rather than a weed, then help is at hand in the form of PlantNet (opens in new tab) – a super useful plant identification app that also acts as a crowd-sourced biodiversity library.Take a snap of the shrub, tree, foliage or flower with your iPhone or iPad…

Google has announced what it calls the “beginning of the end” for passwords, rolling out a new security mechanism that it says will ultimately come to replace PWs in the years to come: the passkey. “We’ve taken a giant step forward on the journey towards a passwordless future,” Google said in a blog post published Wednesday. “We’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms. This means users can now take advantage of passkeys across Google Services for a passwordless sign-in…

Researchers have identified markers that may indicate early-life susceptibility to schizophrenia, potentially allowing for early detection and intervention. The international research team used blood samples drawn shortly after birth and analyzed 24 million methylation marks, validating their findings with transcriptional data from 595 postmortem brain samples. They concluded that certain differences in methylation in newborns indicate an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.The ability to predict the…

As strict voter ID requirements rise in states nationwide, certain voter demographics—including young people, people of color and people with lower educational attainment—are increasingly likely to be unable to vote, a new analysis by UMD researchers and a voting rights group found. Credit: Shutterstock Millions of voting-age Americans lack a current government-issued photo ID, even as a growing number of states enact new or…

Simplest way to deploy your ML model on the web.In this article I will discuss step-by-step tutorial about the easiest and fastest way to deploy your ML project on the web using Streamlit. The project is about dog breed identification, which classifies a dog out of 120 types of breeds. I will focus more on the deployment part of the project, rather than building a complex machine learning model.Before discussing any further, let’s see the demo of the project below:Deployment Demo (gif by the author)You can play with the…

In January that year, an Internal Revenue Service contract for online account verification with startup ID.me, which uses selfies and face recognition to verify new accounts, triggered public backlash over discrimination and privacy concerns. A WIRED story on the NIST standard driving use of the technology referred to Login.gov documentation that said it sometimes asked users to upload selfies for checking against an ID.The GSA informed WIRED after publication that Login.gov’s documentation was inaccurate and Login.gov…

Rapid development in machine learning and AI technologies have made significant progress in computer vision for object detection and recognition. Yet creating a system that can recognize humor and amusement in people is still a challenging problem for programmers, since comedy and entertainment are subjective and based on personal tastes and cultural context. Thus, it is tricky creating a system that can precisely determine what individuals find amusing or enjoyable. However, computer vision in facial recognition and…

Maryland is a unique place to debate face recognition regulation, says Andrew Northrup, an attorney in the forensics division of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. He calls Baltimore “a petri dish for surveillance technology,” because the city spends more money per capita on police among 72 major cities in the US, according to a 2021 analysis by the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice, and has a long history of surveillance technology in policing.The use of invasive surveillance technology including face…