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NJ supermarkets use facial recognition tech? What Wegmans, ShopRite say

Wegmans is using facial recognition software in a small number of stores in communities with elevated risk. The technology is used to identify individuals who have been previously flagged for ...
Wall Street Journal

ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People

Crime is down. Migrant workers and customers are staying home. As part of our video series on Trump’s second term, The Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman takes us inside the aftermath. Photo ...
The Verge

OpenAI’s new flagship image generator AI is here

The company is positioning it as especially good for enterprise use. The company is positioning it as especially good for enterprise use. is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for ...
Reuters

British police to ramp up facial recognition to catch criminals

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Use of facial recognition technology will be expanded across Britain's police forces to help track down criminals, the government said on Thursday, as it proposed a new body ...
The Verge

Google’s Nano Banana AI image model goes Pro and is free to try

The model that recently went viral is improved with Gemini 3 Pro. The model that recently went viral is improved with Gemini 3 Pro. is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for ...
Frontiers

Enhancing Bangla handwritten character recognition using Vision Transformers, VGG-16, and ResNet-50: a performance analysis

Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition (BHCR) remains challenging due to complex alphabets, and handwriting variations. In this study, we present a comparative evaluation of three deep learning ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

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Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
Reuters

US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud ...
IEEE

Handwritten Text Recognition Using Bi-LSTM, CNN and Transformer Encoder

Abstract: In order to digitize handwritten documents and make historical archives, administrative records, and private notes, Handwritten text recognition (HTR) is necessary. Maintaining knowledge and ...
TechCrunch

Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to Snapchat+ ...