Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the ...

When police arrested Robert Dillon in 2023 for allegedly trying to "lure a child" away from a McDonald's in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, he told them he was more than 300 miles away at the time of the ...

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Abstract: Over the past five decades, automated face recognition (FR) has progressed from handcrafted geometric and statistical approaches to advanced deep learning architectures that now approach, ...

Abstract: Utilizing automatic speech recognition in medical transcription can greatly improve healthcare professionals’ productivity. It eliminates the need for manual tasks like physician note-taking ...

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...

Tied to the earlier Windows 11 developer news, Microsoft is also bringing more local AI capabilities to its Edge web browser too. “At Build 2025, we introduced the Prompt and Writing Assistance APIs ...

Security teams are staring at two AI problems at once. Adversaries are using AI to iterate on phishing kits, generate lures, and rotate infrastructure faster than blocklists can follow. Employees are ...