Beijing police are using facial-recognition glasses to identify car passengers and number plates

EUTERS/Thomas Peter Beijing police began testing facial-recognition glasses last week. They appear to be similar to those first used by police in a Henan railway station last month. China is drastically increasing its facial recognition technology, and hopes to eventually be able to identify any citizen within three seconds. The highly-policed region of Xinjiang serves […]

The Iowan Project wants to identify skilled tech workers who have left the state

A lot of young professionals dream of leaving their hometowns after graduating high school or college in search of broader career opportunities or new lifestyles. It seems like an inevitable thing. However, it’s also a problem for states like Iowa that are losing valuable tech talent to other ecosystems. But what if Iowa could identify […]

Scientists identify hundreds of atomically-thin materials

Enlarge / Molybdenum disulfide, one of the 2D materials we knew about. (credit: NC State) Graphene may seem like a modern wonder-material, but it’s been with us for ages in the form of graphite. Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms bonded to each other, just one atom thick; graphite is just an agglomeration of […]

Clew Medical is using AI to identify patients at risk

EXCLUSIVE: AI has been the buzzword of 2017, oftentimes being used in marketing technology applications to provide predictive analysis. And while it is certainly valuable to know when to make that important business decision, AI’s predictive capabilities can also be used to help save lives. Enter Clew Medical, which is launching its AI predictive analytics platform […]

‘Do you identify as boy, girl or other?’ NHS asks 10 year olds

Children as young as ten are being asked whether they are confused about their gender in a new survey distributed to schools by the National Health Service (NHS). Critics have called the question ‘intrusive.’ The survey, conducted by the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, usually monitors weight, height, and fitness. Now the form, which may […]

NASA study will help identify potentially habitable planets

NASA has already found tons of exoplanets around nearby stars, and will spot countless more once the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches. The problem is that scientists aren’t exactly sure which planet-star combinations are most likely to support life. A new NASA study has found that planets orbiting small stars like Trappist-1 could retain […]

Google opens AVA dataset to help machines identify human actions in videos

Computer vision is emerging as a major boon for tech companies looking to bring machines up to speed and perform tasks hitherto only achievable by humans. In the past few months alone, eBay has revealed big plans to roll out a new search feature that lets you use existing photos to find similar items, while […]

Voice search must identify user intent before it can make sales

GUEST: Personal digital assistants have taken the world by storm. We have Siri and Google Assistant on our phones, and many of us have Amazon Echo and Google Home, as well. Voice user interfaces, which have been available to consumers since the 1990s, have finally gone mainstream as a way to play music, set timers, […]