The next time you come back from overseas and flash your American passport at Washington, DC’s Dulles airport, customs officers might take a picture of you and use facial recognition technology to figure out if you really are who you say you are.
Read: US Customs Quietly Launches Facial Recognition Experiment at DC Airport
At this week’s CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany, Alibaba founder Jack Ma finished his speech by presenting a prototype of one of the company’s new ideas: a payment system that uses facial recognition for its security.
Read: Alibaba’s plan to make payments with face-scanning technology is a horrifying idea
The Henry brothers, Asheem and Jelani, were born exactly one year apart to the day, in the warm Junes of 1991 and ‘92. “I always felt there was something special about that,” says their mother Alethia. “A little bit of magic.
Read: How the NYPD is using social media to put Harlem teens behind bars
From algorithmic sentencing to workplace analytics, data is increasingly being used in areas of society that have had longstanding civil rights issues.
reCAPTCHA protects the websites you love from spam and abuse. So, when you go online—say, for some last-minute holiday shopping—you won’t be competing with robots and abusive scripts to access sites.
I’ve had my doubts about the FBI’s facial recognition systems, but a new case has given a rare window into how the system will actually work — and it looks a lot less like science fiction than old-fashioned border control.
Read: The FBI just used facial recognition to catch a fugitive of 14 years
Several recent news stories have highlighted the ways that online social platforms can subtly shape our lives. First came the news that Facebook has “manipulated” users’ emotions by tweaking the balance of happy and sad posts that it shows to some users.
Read: Are We Rushing to Judgment Against the Hidden Power of Algorithms?
When billionaire engineer and aviator Howard Hughes died at age 70 without leaving a will, authorities were left to distribute his estate amongst 22 cousins and a variety of people and institutions Hughes barely knew.
Read: ‘Beyond Blood’ imagines a future where algorithms govern inheritance, not your will
GE Capital Retail Bank, a division of General Electric, excluded tens of thousands of Spanish-speaking credit card customers from a debt-reduction program it ran for two years, a pattern of discrimination that will cost the bank $169 million in fines, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Read: GE Capital Bank to pay $169 million for discrimination against Hispanics
The 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, a video-game conference held in Los Angeles, California, was a typically lavish, if bawdy, affair.