The New York Times

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...
Wired

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...
InfoQ

Daggr Introduced as an Open-Source Python Library for Inspectable AI Workflows

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Los Angeles Times

Israel objects to U.S. announcement of leaders who will help oversee next steps in Gaza

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Israel’s government objects to a White House executive committee overseeing Gaza’s next steps, saying it wasn’t ...
CNN

Wegmans is scanning your face at some stores. It’s not the only company

The biggest chains in America are using facial recognition technology to try to stop shoplifting. But most customers are unaware their faces are being scanned while they shop. Facial recognition isn’t ...
Christian Science Monitor

How the Lumbee Tribe earned federal recognition after a decadeslong effort

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
IEEE

Object Recognition and Obstacle Avoidance for Multimobile Robots via Swin Transformer and Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: In the field of multimobile robots (MMRs), object recognition and obstacle avoidance are fundamental capabilities to ensure autonomous navigation and safe task execution, particularly in ...
Gizmodo

Humans Can Detect Buried Objects Without Touching Them, Study Finds

Recent research suggests that humans have a surprising ability—we can sometimes feel a physical object before making contact with it. In a study published this past October in the journal IEEE ...
Futurism

Professor Rages at NASA’s “Deceptive” Press Conference on Mysterious Interstellar Object

After over a month of government shutdown, NASA finally released new images of mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday. During the livestreamed event, NASA brass took pains to “address ...
IFLScience

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Has Slightly Changed Course And May Have Lost A Lot Of Mass, NASA Observations Show

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...
The New York Times

Over 1,000 Objects Are Stolen From Oakland Museum

A robbery this month targeted Indigenous baskets, jewelry and other artifacts from a storage facility of the Oakland Museum of California. By Reggie Ugwu More than 1,000 objects, including jewelry, ...