It’s been a long time coming, but this week, Snapchat announced the next stage of its augmented reality push, with the launch of the first iteration of a fully AR-enabled version of its Spectacles smart glasses.
Read moreLinkedIn’s Latest Transparency Report Shows Decrease in Fake Profiles, Increase in Harassment
LinkedIn has published its latest Transparency Report, which provides an overview of content removals, Government information requests and spam/fake profile actions that the platform took over the last six months of 2020.
Read moreRegulation of Face Recognition Software Use Could Be Coming Soon, in the US
Just over a week after Amazon extended its ban on sales of facial recognition technology to US law enforcement indefinitely, there is a sense that federal law may soon be passed in this regard. Forty advocacy groups had written to Jeff Bezos and...
Read moreHow to choose a photo storage service
Last November, Google — which until now has offered unlimited storage for what it called “high quality” (read: compressed) photos — announced that “unlimited” is being changed to “up to 15GB on your Google account.”
Read moreThis picture of cheese helped send a man to prison for 13 years
It’s generally a good idea to be careful about the photos you share online. Share a photo of your vaccination card, for example, and you risk revealing your full name and date of birth, which opens you up to the possibility of identity theft. But...
Read moreGoogle’s new tool will identify skin conditions — what will people do with that information?
Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checking tool, it’ll face questions over how accurately it can perform that task. But experts say...
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