Rite Aid conducted a facial recognition tech pilot program across around 200 stores between 2013 and 2020. Deposit PhotosFTC called the use of the surveillance technology ‘reckless.’ The post Rite Aid can’t use facial recognition technology for the next five years appeared first on Popular Science.
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All 50 states joined the antitrust lawsuit, accusing Google of anticompetitive practices that gave its own apps and app store an unfair advantage on Android phones.
Porn games are still forbidden, but games that get an AO rating specifically because they use blockchain tech will be allowed on the storefront.
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A Chilean researcher and his team are studying the mysteries of RNA, in order to one day help develop RNA-based therapies for diseases like cancer.
Perhaps no consumer-electronics product had a more audacious launch in 2023 than Telly, a TV set that was given out for free to thousands of U.S. consumers. But Telly came with a few strings attached. Or to be more precise than “strings,” a smaller second screen came attached to Telly’s 55-inch screen that displays ads […]
Although most folks aren’t in a massive rush to learn when they’ll bite the big one, new tech “can predict almost anything”about someone’s life, according to researchers.
While a more common belief is that the Apple Watch sales ban will have minimal financial repercussions in the short term, there are outlying opinions about the extent of its economic impact.Apple Watch UltraThe latest report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) believes that the bans of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 based on pulse oximeter patents will hurt Apple’s revenue in the short and long terms. But not all analysts agree on the impact.For example, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives estimates that the disturbance might lead to a loss of approximately $300-400 million in Apple’s sales during the holiday season. However, this amount is comparatively small for Apple, considering the anticipated total sales of nearly $120 billion for the October-December quarter. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
In the last year, computers started acting strangely human. As OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever put it, you can think of AI as a “digital brain”, one that’s directly modeled after that of a human. Just like a young child, AI has incentives and learns from those around it. If ChatGPT was a young child, it would be growing…Read more…
With regulatory approval, Mercedes-Benz is able to add a turquoise light to its cars using its Drive Pilot self-driving feature.