Buolamwini, Gebru and Raji win AI Innovation Award for research into biometric bias
Biometrics researchers Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru, and Inioluwa Raji have won the AI for Good category in VentureBeat’s AI Innovation…
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Biometrics infrastructure contracts, investment plans indicate sustained market growth
An indication of things to come in mobile biometrics from Fingerprint Cards was the most widely-read article of the week…
Big Tech control over AI research: an explanation and an alternative
The data and computing resources necessary for research into artificial intelligence are dominated by a handful of companies, creating a…
Investment pours into industry for voice and face biometrics, international expansion
Big money is being invested in voice biometrics and facial authentication, with Microsoft making Nuance its second-largest ever acquisition (after…
Face biometrics roll out for retail, airports and edge as players work to refine the technology
Facial recognition is the common theme of the week’s top digital identity news with retail applications, new edge servers, and…
Contactless biometrics roll out for advanced payments and secure access, despite masks
The top themes of the week in biometrics news are facial recognition for facility security, identifying people wearing masks, and…
Methods for enrolling fingerprints to biometric payment cards pitched by providers
From promotional materials released by players in the biometric payment card ecosystem to the spotlight at the Asia-Pacific Smart Card…
Innovations in on-device biometrics for crypto, edge devices, and enterprise security unveiled
Local matching, whether on biometric cards, mobile phones or edge devices was a key theme running through the week’s top…
Facial recognition needs auditing and ethics standards to be safe, AI Now bias critic argues
The artificial intelligence community needs to begin developing the vocabulary to define and clearly explain the harms the technology can…
MIT AI training dataset pulled down for racist, sexist, vulgar labels as industry grapples with bias
A database used in training systems for tasks like facial biometrics and object recognition has been taken down by the…
