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Rear-end recognition: Another step forward (or behind) for security?
A new technology has been unveiled by Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology -- a chair that can identify you by the shape and size of your posterior.
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Facebook's bad year: The beginning of the end?
A look back at some of the major controversies to grip the world's largest social network over the past few months. Is Facebook teetering on the edge of collapse?
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German state to sue Facebook over facial recognition feature
German authorities are looking to sue Facebook over its use of facial recognition technology. The argument is over opt-in versus opt-out. Facebook insists the latter is compliant with the law.
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Germany: Facebook facial recognition feature violates privacy laws
Germany is threatening Facebook with legal action and a fine of €300,000 ($420,000) over its biometric facial recognition technology.
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Facebook facial recognition violates German privacy laws
Facebook is threatened with legal action and huge fines after German authorities say it violates privacy and data protection laws.
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Google gets facial recognition with PittPatt acquisition
Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, better known as PittPatt, bringing the company's facial recognition technology into its arsenal.
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EU to probe Facebook over facial recognition feature
The European Union is unhappy with the fact that Facebook turned on Tag Suggestions, a facial recognition feature, by default without notifying users first.
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Facebook starts rolling out facial recognition feature worldwide
Facebook has started rolling out a facial recognition feature worldwide called Tag Suggestions.
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Facebook's photo facial recognition enabled: Time to check your settings
A new Facebook auto-opt-in feature has been enabled. If you do not want software to facially recognise you, here's how to turn it off.
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Tech racism? Will dark-skinned gamers have trouble with Kinect's facial recognition?
updated below: Uh-oh. Some early reports are surfacing that Kinect, the controller-free experience for Microsoft's XBox 360, is having trouble recognizing dark-skinned players. A post on...
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Lenovo unveils G455, G555 laptops: AMD chips, ATi graphics, $449
Lenovo on Thursday announced the G455 and G555, budget laptops that pack AMD and ATi inside and start at $449.
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Apple files patents for object and facial recognition for the iPhone
MacRumors notes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published "several dozen" patent applications this morning including an interesting one that covers object and facial recognition,...
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Ad tech can recognize gender - age next?
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a gender-recognition system that could change the way advertising works in future.
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State DMV: Facial recognition requires 'No Smile' rule
Facial recognition systems may have their good points, but count this on the negative side: At the Virginia DMV, smiles are outlawed, according to the Washington Post. Manassas resident Maria...
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Shop around before you buy Apple's iLife '09
Mark your calendar, fellow Macheads. Apple's iLife '09 will be released tomorrow. The upgrades to iLife, of course, was one of the big (YAWN!) announcements during this year's Macworld keynote...
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Facial recognition systems for border security
Facial recognition systems are used around the world to check very quickly if an individual's photo appears in a database of known or suspected criminals. Unfortunately, the systems often acquire...
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Google's new foray into image search
In an interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Google's director of product management for consumer search properties, R.J. Pittman, discusses the search giant's development of software for facial...
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Photos: HP's Chinese media search lab
Company collaborates with Beijing's Tsinghua University to tailor media search applications such as facial recognition for its consumer PCs.
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Biometrics finds its niche
Biometrics will never live up to its post-September 11 hype, but Steve Hunt of Giga Information Group says the technology has found its perfect niche: the biometric smart card.
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Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms
Siri's approach to deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debating how to mine their stores of big data for value.
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