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 ...

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 ...

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.

Notably, Google was not included because it does not offer gender recognition services. On average, the systems were most accurate with photos of cisgender women (those born female and identifying as ...

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 ...

Facial recognition software cannot accurately assess the gender of trans people, a study has claimed. The controversial tech is now so accurate that it can figure out the gender of men or women ...