Meet Amelia, the British ‘school girl’ with purple hair who has become far right social media star

Amelia, an AI-generated British school girl or a purple-haired “goth girl”, has exploded across social media channels. The avatar was created for a computer game two years ago under the British ...
Tech Xplore

Facial recognition technology used by police is now very accurate—but public understanding lags behind

The UK government's proposed reforms to policing in England and Wales signal an increase in the use of facial recognition ...

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 ...

“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Decoding the shadows: Vehicle recognition software uncovers unusual traffic behavior

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a deep learning algorithm that ...