Most people familiar with face-scanning software suite Amazon Rekognition, its place in the surveillance state, and its questionable efficacy are apt to fear what the consequences of such a technology ...

Amazon will sell its facial-recognition technology to whomever it damn well pleases thank you very much. That message was loud and clear Wednesday morning at the company's annual shareholder meeting, ...

On Tuesday, Amazon said that the one-year ban on US police being permitted to use the facial recognition technology solution would continue to stand, as reported by The Washington Post. The previous ...

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Reported by the New York Times, new tests of facial recognition technology suggest that Amazon’s system has more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces compared with ...

AWS CEO Andy Jassy delivers the keynote at the 2018 reInvent confrerence. (Amazon Web Services Photo) Amazon’s latest update to its Rekognition software is renewing an outcry from civil rights groups ...

Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) computer vision platform that was launched in 2016. It has been sold to and used by several United States government agencies as well ...

Humphrey Chen, who was an Amazon Rekognition product management leader, has joined video advertising company VidMob. VidMob's technology helps brands create digital video ads for social platforms like ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Amazon’s controversial Rekognition platform, its artificial ...

SEATTLE—Amazon has added new features to its Rekognition Video machine learning analysis service that allows it to automate media analysis tasks, specifically the detection of black frames, end ...