Facebook's AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @histoftech , @samgregory , @kimcrayton1 , and @profcarroll Tweets: Mar Hicks / @histoftech : Facebook's earliest iteration, Facemash, also scraped (stole) pics Zuc...
Coinbase files its S-1, reveals profit of $322M in 2020 on $1.2B in revenue, up from a loss of $30M in 2019 on $533M in revenue
This summary highlights selected information that is presented … Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Coinbase Cofounders And Investors Poised To Rake In Tens Of Billions From IPO Ian Allison / CoinDesk : Coinbase...
CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and reveals it caught zero imposters at airports
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020 Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection . Tweets: @stilgherrian , ...
A look at how COVID-19 has accelerated development of tech that tracks workers, and how physically tracing employees could be mainstream even after the pandemic
A boom in contact tracing devices could herald a new era of worker surveillance — Before April, Radiant RFID … Tweets: @davegershgorn , @sarahnemerson , @bcmerchant , @davegershgorn , and @medium Tw...
Documents show how Clear, which lets its members skip security lines at 35 US airports, is building a digital ID system for storing health care info and more
'You are your driver's license, your credit card, your health care card, your building access card' — In March, the air travel industry ground to a halt. Tweets: @davegershgorn , @dlberes , @turnern...
A look at how Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs' bet on making Toronto a smart city failed, driven by intense resistance from residents and civic leaders
Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn't play along. — October 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke … Tweets: @dlberes , @ozm , @yeahyeahyasmin , @ozm , @davegershgorn , @longform ...
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says TikTok is being reviewed by CFIUS, which will make a recommendation to Trump
“no question that what the big tech companies are doing is very bad,” without specifying what conduct he's referring to. Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele : In 50 years we will have the distance to unde...
Microsoft hasn't released an HR transparency report a year after promising to do so, as sources say there hasn't been a difference in how HR cases are handled
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Thanks: @dlberes
Buenos Aires has had live facial recognition in its subway systems for about a year, which has caused wrongful detentions, even as politicians praise the system
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @davegershgorn , @davegershgorn , @bcmerchant , @ozm , @dlberes , @ipvanish , @ozm , and @fabiochiusi . Thanks: @davegershgorn Tweets: Dave Gershgorn / @davegershgo...
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month
Waitlist removed, memberships now available for everyone. Kevin C. Tofel / About Chromebooks : Look out Google Stadia: Nvidia GeForce NOW coming to Chromebooks Chris Reed / IGN : GeForce Now Founders ...