SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED Among the gazillion other products and services available from Amazon is the behemoth’s facial recognition software, Rekognition, marketed as providing extremely accurate facial analysis. But when the American Civil Liberties Union gave it a go, the results were startling. Using Rekognition, the ACLU scanned photos of every current member of the U.S. House … [Read more...] about NOTW: Racist facial recognition software, breaking and internet-ing, and another reason to avoid public restrooms
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NOTW: High-tech TP, dumb criminals and the bedroom of tomorrow
TP GOES HIGH TECH China’s public-park restrooms have for years suffered toilet-paper theft by local residents who raid dispensers for their own homes (a cultural habit, wrote Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, expressing taxpayer feelings of “owning” public facilities), but the government recently fought back with technology. At Beijing’s popular Temple of Heaven park, … [Read more...] about NOTW: High-tech TP, dumb criminals and the bedroom of tomorrow