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FBI and DoD were actively involved in facial recognition development

03/10/202303/09/2023 Stephanie Beck

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The software used in everything from street cameras to drones was developed in part by the Pentagon. Internal documents made public due to a lawsuit response have shown that the US government was profoundly involved in the research and development of facial recognition software they were hoping to use for mass surveillance. The FBI and Defense Department were actively involved in R&D to help identify people from footage. According to the documents, the FBI and Department of Defense were actively involved in facial recognition software research and development in the…

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant misses its mark

03/08/202303/07/2023 John Montgallo

The company is now making the largest cuts in its history to the teams working on that technology. The teams at Amazon that have been working on the Alexa voice assistant are being hit by the largest job cuts the company has ever seen. The concept of Alexa was first created by Jeff Bezos more than a decade ago on a whiteboard. In Bezos’ vision of the voice assistant, it would provide the user with help in completing a full spectrum of different tasks ranging from reading a bedtime story…

Nokia isn’t a cell phone company anymore, and it changed its logo to spotlight that

03/07/202303/06/2023 Sam Lambert

The logo has been redesigned for the first time in decades to help redefine the brand. Nokia has unveiled the newest redesign of its logo, something it hasn’t done in decades, to help place the spotlight on the fact that it is no longer a cell phone company. The company has been working to rebrand itself now that smartphones aren’t what it’s about. The new logo is a clear move away from being a cell phone company. It contains five different shapes which each come together to spell the NOKIA…

Inventor of the first cell phone is hopeful that new tech will improve it

03/06/202303/02/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

Marty Cooper feels that this device definitely has a dark side, but he’s optimistic for its future. The first cell phone call ever made was placed in New York City on April 3, 1973, by its inventor, Martin Cooper, using a massive gray prototype gadget. He and his team at Motorola had only recently developed the technology he was testing. The device that has now managed to change the world was invented by Cooper fifty years ago. Obviously, the original cell phone looked absolutely nothing like the slim, touchscreen devices…

Researchers discover phone battery flaw (and easy solution) in most devices

02/23/202302/22/2023 Julie Campbell

The Canadian team explained a main cause of self-discharging batteries in laptops and smartphones. Canadian researchers have determined a phone battery manufacturing flaw affecting most smartphones and laptops, causing them to self-discharge. The scientists also identified a simple solution that can be used to remedy the situation. Researchers in Halifax, Canada found that a surprisingly widespread flaw in laptop and phone battery manufacturing causes them to slowly drain unnecessarily. “This is something that is totally unexpected and something that probably no one thought of,” said Dalhousie University assistant professor Michael…