insert_link Tech Made Simple How Much Can We Trust Facial Recognition Technology? It’s easy to be alarmist about facial recognition, but at the end of the day, it’s a simple matching system. The algorithm establishes a set of features and looks for matches, just like a search engine or a speech-to-text system. The problems come with how people use that capability — whether it’s commercial marketing or, more controversially, police surveillance. Those problems get particularly bad if you don’t use the […] todayJuly 30, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple NYPD Will Use Tech to Patrol on New Year’s New York’s finest will be keeping a watchful eye on New Year’s revelers this year… from about ten to thirty feet above ground. According to the Associated Press, about 7,000 police officers will be on duty for Monday night’s festivities in Times Square, including counterterrorism teams with long guns and bomb-sniffing dogs. Police cars and sand-filled sanitation trucks will be positioned to stop vehicles from driving into the crowd. But […] todayDecember 31, 2018
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