If you have a web camera on your computer; a front facing camera on your phone, or any camera really, you're going to be extremely jealous of this awesome boob tracker feature after watching this video. Who cares about facial recognition? Who cares about Wi-Fi equipped cameras? Every camera needs this boob tracker, stat. Read More >>
You might want to think twice about how often you hang out at your local PC World in the future. In Japan, NEC has developed a new facial recognition system geared towards retailers that determines the age and gender of shoppers, and tracks how long and how often they visit a given store. Read More >>
The next generation of CCTV cameras may well be able to automatically spot overly drunk potential troublemakers, thanks to the efforts of a team of Greek researchers. Read More >>
Those rapscallions at Anonymous definitely like to live their lives with outward privacy; their less than subtle ways of masking their identity have become totally ingrained in the public consciousness. Their new educational video aims to help the paranoid hide away from facial recognition software in various ways, from being devilishly subtle to downright insane. Read More >>
Featured comment by AKIBA8:
"Could I just go Cyberpunk style and wear sunglasses everywhere?
Halfway through making some Adam Jensen style ones for cosplay purposes." More »
Facebook's in trouble with the Germans again, with local data protection bodies angry that the social site's stealth biometric database compiled from photo scans has not been destroyed. Read More >>
Featured comment by Danjc2:
"My first thoughts were on the German propensity for the efficient destruction of any trace of who people are... Does that make me a bad person?" More »
Facebook's spending yet more of its recent enormous public listing windfall on a new tech company, agreeing to buy facial recognition software specialist Face.com for around the $100m mark. Read More >>
Sometimes you turn on the news and see a clip of an unknown perp robbing a convenience store. Problem is, police can't tell who the thief is because the video is so bad. But that might not be a problem anymore thanks to a French company called Vesalis and its bang-on facial recognition software. Originally designed for department store kiosks, and it's so good that it's caught the attention of the French government, which wants to use it for security reasons. Read More >>
Here's a pleasant first little look at Skynet — Face.com, which develops facial recognition software, now boasts that it can pinpoint your age based on your mug alone. Let's test it out. Read More >>
Featured comment by beatles1:
"It does seem that it is more accurate at guessing the age than the gender. Got my age right but not gender, it was 73% I was female. Or maybe I've bee..." More »
We've all taken pictures where we've accidentally focused on the wrong person: who the hell was that dude in the background, anyway? But facial recognition baked into Canon's new cameras should mean that doesn't happen again. Read More >>
Germany's Data Protection Authority is not happy with Facebook. It claims the social network's facial recognition system is a form of biometric data harvesting, for which it should've first sought the permission of users. Read More >>
You've always had a choice. Either leave your screen unlocked when you stow it and run the risk of pocket-dialing the entirety of your contact list or lock the screen and endure the tedium of entering a PIN every time you pull it out. Read More >>
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