Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...

Amazon Ring is rolling out “Familiar Faces,” an AI feature that identifies and names regular visitors via video doorbells. While offering notification convenience, the feature faces strong backlash ...

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On Thursday, officials in the UK pledged to roll out a country-wide facial recognition system to help police track down criminals. The country’s ministers have launched a 10-week consultation to ...

Teenagers suspected of gunning down a security guard at a CVS in downtown Dallas. A man who used a dating app to talk his way into a Lake Highlands apartment before robbing his match. A woman accused ...

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'MORE INTUITIVE': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red" effort within his company to improve the quality of ChatGPT The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an internal memo. BOTS GONE ROGUE: ...

Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices. But there’s not much data to prove they keep kids ...

FORT RILEY (KSNT) – The Fort Riley Army Post is taking a big step into the future with the addition of facial recognition technology at some of its entrances. Fort Riley announced on social media that ...

Your doorbell may soon greet your visitors by name… whether you want it to or not. Amazon’s Ring is rolling out a facial recognition feature called Familiar Faces. And while it promises helpful alerts ...

Torvalds says AI is now genuinely useful for Linux maintainers. Linux 6.18 was the kind of release he likes: boring and stable. Torvalds is calmer now, but some things still make him testy. At Open ...

With "vibe coding," almost anyone can be a programmer. Just ask an AI to generate code through a ChatGPT-like conversation, and refine the output. This technique is rapidly becoming a popular way for ...