Tech giants pressured to follow Google in removing gender labels from computer vision services
Google’s move to eliminate gender labels from its artificial intelligence-powered computer vision services has put pressure on Microsoft, Amazon, and…
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Zwipe and Thales earnings plus Goodix and Amazon in biometrics stocks news
Zwipe has reported revenues of NOK 1.5 million (US$160,000 ) in full-year 2019, as it switches to a focus on…
AWS executive says no misuse of its face biometrics by police, talks foreign government sales
Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services CEO, would have no problem selling the company’s facial recognition software Rekognition to law enforcement…
Amazon considers palm biometrics for touchless in-store payments, tests terminal transactions with Visa
Amazon is working on linking users’ hands to credit card information to enable palm biometric payments at checkout terminals, reports…
Auto biometrics market projected for massive growth as industry players demo new technology
The global market for biometrics in automotive access applications, while still developing, will go through a massive growth period from…
Amazon files patent for touchless scanning system, Apple, Mad Systems patent biometric hailing/alert system, facial recognition locator
Amazon Go or Whole Foods shoppers may in the future be identified by their hands, according to a patent published…
Veridium to offer multi-factor biometric authentication through AWS Partner Network
Veridium has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a Select Technology Partner to offer multi-factor biometric authentication to and…
Amazon argues Alexa terms of service undercut biometric privacy claims as BIPA defenses considered
The terms of service provided by Amazon for its voice assistant Alexa specify the company’s policies for use and storage…
New capabilities to compliment voice biometrics announced by Sensory, AWS, LumenVox
Sensory has announced support for multiple wake words among a set of new capabilities for its TrulyHandsfree offering, enabling custom…
AWS introduces innovative features for Alexa, Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Web Services has made Alexa Voice available on low-powered devices which previously did not have enough processing power to…
