All Blog Posts Tagged 'Recognition' (12)

Adan Salazar

Infowars.com

August 14, 2012

“Check in with your face” is the motto a U.S. marketing company is using to preface its new face scan deal-linking technology.

Redpepper, out of Nashville, TN, has developed technology that says it will save you money, however, the methods engaged are much more intrusive than your standard grocery store coupon.

The process starts when a “Facedeals”…

Facebook is acquiring facial recognition firm Face.com, for an estimated $60 million.

Facebook already uses Face.com's facial recognition technology to help it put a name to faces in photos uploaded to the social network. Now, with the…

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch.

By Erin Sherbert

Last year, San Franciscans were pretty freaked out when they learned that some of their favorite watering holes had…

Aliya Sternstein

Nextgov.com

October 8, 2011

The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.

The federal…

By David Edwards

Law enforcement agencies around the country will soon be able to use their smartphones to identify subjects.

BI2′s Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System (MORIS) attaches to an iPhone or other smartphone and uses biometrics from an iris, facial or fingerprint scan to determine a person’s…

Charles Arthur

Guardian

June 8, 2011

Facebook has come under fire for quietly expanding the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about its privacy practices.

The feature, which the giant social…

Mark Milian

CNN

March 31, 2011

Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Google plans to introduce a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people’s faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this…

Daily Mail

October 4, 2010…

Ben Parr

CNN

July 8, 2010

Facebook has begun testing face detection technology for Facebook Photos.

This is the first of what seems like a series of new features for its popular photo product.

The tests, which some users will see starting today [Friday], focus on decreasing the tediousness of “tagging” friends in Facebook photos. In the current Photos feature, users upload photos, click on each face in a photo, tag that photo…

New facial recognition and motion sensor technology to roll out across more models, saving energy in the process

James Murray for BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network…