Facial recognition AI used by police on the public remains a contentious issue, but Amazon is pressing ahead with its Rekognition technology for identifying celebrities in images and video. Free and ...

Follow GeekWire’s coverage of AWS re:Invent 2019, as Amazon announces new cloud products, partnerships and technology initiatives. by Monica Nickelsburg on Nov 25, 2019 at 10:57 am December 2, 2019 at ...

Amazon Web Services’ facial recognition technology, Rekognition, can now detect fear. At least, that’s according to Amazon — but given that the tech has been proven inaccurate again and again, it’s ...

Amazon announced a new capability today called Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to help customers train machine learning models to understand a set of objects when there is a limited set of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. May 16, 2019 — Dübendorf, Switzerland:Insys Video Technologies has added powerful new ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Amazon’s controversial Rekognition platform, its artificial ...

Amazon shareholders will cast nonbinding votes Wednesday on whether the company should sell its facial recognition software Rekognition to the government as well as whether an independent report is ...

An Amazon sign is pictured at company headquarters on May 20, 2021, in Seattle. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images) A Department of Justice disclosure that the FBI is in the “initiation” phase of ...

Amazon is temporarily halting the use of its controversial facial recognition technology in the wake of widespread protests against police violence and discrimination. The internet giant is starting a ...

A failed bid to halt sales of Rekognition, Amazon’s controversial facial recognition software, is the most recent in a string of high-profile controversies surrounding the new surveillance technology.

Amazon, which one year ago barred police from using its facial recognition software, is extending that moratorium indefinitely. The extension of the ban on police use of Amazon’s facial identification ...