Amazon’s facial recognition software can detect emotion on people’s faces, including fear. The company announced improvements in gender identification and emotion detection, including: Happy ...

The tool’s overall ability to detect age range, gender, and emotion have been improved as well. The new update comes amid growing scrutiny over facial recognition technology and concerns over ...

Technology that tries to identify someone’s gender or sexual orientation using facial recognition is on the rise. Campaigners say it’s dangerous and should be banned before it becomes commonplace.

And Google's change to its facial recognition algorithm — while generally regarded as a positive move towards better treatment of gender issues in tech — only came in the wake of criticism. Before the ...

The facial recognition software, built on baseline code from Intel, is not savvy enough to, say, be linked up with Facebook and detect identity; it's just able to detect a face and its gender.

Microsoft's Face API team made three major changes to its recognition system. They expanded and revised the current datasets, started collecting even more data and focused the resulting models ...

Microsoft isn't the first company to have second thoughts about facial recognition. IBM stopped work in that field over worries its projects could be used for human rights abuses. With that said ...

The Boston Police Department, on the other hand, said that it “does not use any technology that involves the use of facial recognition software.” In a time where there's excitement about what ...