Scientists Say Their AI System Can Scan Your Face to Detect Whether a Company Should Hire You

Setting aside that highly problematic can of worms, the team at UPenn argues that yes, as a matter of fact, AI can accurately ...
TechCrunch

YouTube’s likeness-detection technology has officially launched

YouTube revealed on Tuesday that its likeness-detection technology has officially rolled out to eligible creators in the YouTube Partner Program, following a pilot phase. The technology allows ...
Black Enterprise

Burlington Coat Factory’s Alleged Use Of Facial Recognition Sparks Concern

Burlington Coat Factory is under fire for allegedly using facial recognition in its stores. The public is speaking out over Burlington Coat Factory’s alleged use of facial recognition technology to ...
Forbes

ICE Just Spent Millions On Surveillance Tech Banned By Facebook

It can also search a subject’s face across other data the tool has collected to see where else they’ve been spotted. Late last year, law enforcement in Virginia signed a contract to pay $35,000 a year ...
marktechpost

Building a Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Pipeline in Python Using SpeechBrain

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...
The Journal

New Turnitin Bypasser Detection Feature Helps Identify Use of AI Humanizer Tools

Turnitin has expanded its AI writing detection capabilities with AI bypasser detection, a feature designed to help identify text that has been modified by AI humanizer tools. "Humanizers," which ...
TechSpot

A growing number of states are restricting corporate use of facial recognition

A hot potato: US states are imposing stricter rules on how tech companies collect, analyze, and monetize biometric data, including facial features, iris patterns, and other unique identifiers. While ...
NPR

With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void

States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of ...
The New York Times

How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail

Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police arrested him anyway. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times Supported by ...
KLFY News 10

Uvalde schools will use artificial intelligence gun detection system

UVALDE, Texas (KXAN) — Artificial intelligence will soon help Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District monitor its campus cameras in an effort to bolster security at schools. Three years after ...
GEN

Rapid Pathogen Detection in Low-Resource Settings Using Open-Source RT-LAMP Assay

A bottleneck to enabling widespread access to molecular diagnostics, especially in low- and middle-income countries, has been the high cost and complex logistics associated with rapid point-of-care ...