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Tech Giant Google appears close to announcing a new physical debit card to be used with its Google Pay payment platform, complete with biometric security. The news — which comes via a series of leaked documents obtained by TechCrunch — would position Google in the FinTech industry alongside competitor Apple, following the launch of the […]
San Francisco-based Inference Solutions, maker of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), has announced the newest version of its Inference Studio platform including the new Verbatim Audio feature for tuning speech recognition and task automation. With Inference Studio 6.5, users can build and manage IVA applications to help them with customer engagement as well as tasks like […]
Google has followed through on its promises and fixed a major security flaw in the Pixel 4. The issue stems from the smartphone’s Face Unlock feature, which would grant access to people who had their eyes closed when the phone was released in October. Thankfully, the latest Pixel software update finally closes that loophole. The […]
Google is facing a lawsuit from the father of two Illinois children claiming the tech giant had violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) when it allegedly collected biometric data from millions of students across the country through its G Suite for Education apps. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit — filed last week in […]
The same kind of machine learning-produced racial biases found in some facial recognition technologies are also in play in speech recognition, according to new research from Stanford Engineering. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers detail findings showing that speech recognition systems are significantly more likely to […]
Google has released the first developer preview of Android 11 — the next version of its mobile operating system — with a slew of new features including some upgrades to security, privacy, biometric capabilities, messaging and more. Though this is only the first version of Android 11 and it is just a developer preview — […]
Google has decided to remove gendered terminology from its Cloud Vision API in an effort to avoid bias on the AI platform. The Cloud Vision API is an object recognition service that automatically identifies and labels items in photos. The API can identify anything from animals to brand logos, making it much easier to search […]
Google has been accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in a new lawsuit over the compiling of faceprints. This case comes just one week after social media giant Facebook agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement on a similar lawsuit. In a class-action complaint filed by plaintiff and Illinois resident […]
According to CBS, Google and YouTube have sent a cease-and-desist letter to facial recognition company Clearview AI. Clearview AI’s app scrapes images from social media platforms and websites, amassing a database that is reported to have currently reached over three billion images. The system — which has been made available to law enforcement for use […]
The FIDO Alliance has finally shared the list of keynote speakers for the inaugural Authenticate conference in June. The organization first put out the call for speakers when Authenticate was announced back in September. Authenticate will be FIDO’s first attempt at organizing a major industry event, and is scheduled for June 2-3 at the Motif […]
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