The Israeli military’s “Cyber War Room” used the technology for identification purposes. The Israeli military has used Amazon’s facial recognition system to identify at least 60 missing people using videos and images scraped from various social media platforms such as TikTok and Facebook. The project is being used to help identify missing and dead people after the Hamas attack on Israel. Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel earlier this month, resulting in about 1,300 deaths and hundreds of missing people. A group of cyber experts started a volunteer project…
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The QR code began in Japan and was invented by Toyota to track automobile production. It spread across Japan, Europe and now here in the United States. These mobile trends are setting fire to industries all over the world.
Apple App Store not listed among compliant mobile marketplaces in China
The country listed the marketplaces that comply with its new regulations, but Apple’s wasn’t on it. China’s internet and online ecosystem regulator recently released a list of the names of the various mobile app store marketplaces that are compliant with its regulations, and Apple’s marketplace wasn’t on the list. The list comes as a strong signal that the regulator has started enforcing new rules it previously announced. The regulator had already announced that it had a number of new regulations for mobile application marketplaces, including the need to file business…
Read MoreArtificial intelligence continues to contain biases, but progress continues
Google acknowledges that AI is still highly biased, though the tech is moving forward fast. Artificial intelligence has been rocketing forward both technologically and in popularity, but according to a researcher at Google, it continues to contain biases and repairing fairness in the tech “isn’t a simple thing”. The researcher says the chance is there to get it right as the world adopts it at a rapid speed. “It’s as though we been given a second chance on how we use this technology to dismantle some of the biases we…
Read MoreUS regulators challenge Google’s internet search dominance
The American government is looking at the power Google’s core service has online. The US government has launched a legal battle against Google’s internet search dominance and the control it has over the experience the vast majority of users have online. This legal battle is expected to begin at full strength tomorrow in federal court in Washington D.C. The internet search case is expected to be the largest antitrust trial in the United States since Microsoft faced regulators over that company’s dominance over personal computer software. That case occurred about…
Read MoreQR code on water jugs help to ensure the contents are safe to drink
Two brothers from Chennai, India have developed a system to ensure the bottles contain clean water. A new QR code system developed by two brothers from Chennai, India can help people to know whether the jugs of water they purchase contain clean water, helping to avoid arriving home to discover that their water is dirty or cloudy. Many people in the area must fill large water jugs every day to provide their drinking supply. The tap water in the area is not clean enough to drink. Therefore, they purchase the…
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