NPR

'Mar-a-Lago face': MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test

The MAGA look — you know the one: dramatic eyeliner, long, wavy hair, sheath dresses — is a defining feature of President Trump's Republican Party. And it's about a lot more than appearances.
eLife

A real-time, multi-animal model for automatic face detection and identification of freely moving common marmosets based on YOLOv8 algorithms

This valuable study presents a real-time system for identifying multiple unrestrained marmosets in a home cage setting using a combination of face detection and color-coded beads. However, there is ...
GitHub

Smart Face Mask Detection System

face-mask-detection/ ├── dataset/ │ ├── with_mask/ # Training images with masks │ └── without_mask/ # Training images without masks ├── model/ │ ├── mask_detector.h5 # Trained model (generated) │ └── ...
IEEE

MATLAB based Framework for Real-Time Human Face Detection

Abstract: This work suggests a MATLAB-based framework for real-time human face detection in order to provide a straightforward, effective, and economical method for computer vision tasks. Designing ...
Inc

Meta Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses—but 1 Major Concern Is Holding It Back

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is developing plans to incorporate facial recognition technology into the smart glasses it produces with Ray Ban and Oakley. The new feature, dubbed Name Tag, would ...
Wired

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...
The Conversation

Facial recognition technology used by police is now very accurate – but public understanding lags behind

The UK government’s proposed reforms to policing in England and Wales signal an increase in the use of facial recognition technology. The number of live facial recognition vans is set to rise from ten ...
Bleeping Computer

Hugging Face abused to spread thousands of Android malware variants

A new Android malware campaign is using the Hugging Face platform as a repository for thousands of variations of an APK payload that collects credentials for popular financial and payment services.
Aclu.org

Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot “Persons of Interest” — Including For the Government

The grocery store chain Wegmans, among other retailers, is using face recognition on its customers — and scanning their faces for resemblance not only to accused shoplifters but also to people whose ...
NPR

Teachers are using software to see if students used AI. What happens when it's wrong?

Ailsa Ostovitz has been accused of using AI on three assignments in two different classes this school year. "It's mentally exhausting because it's like I know this is my work," says Ostovitz, 17. "I ...
TWCN Tech News

Create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...