AI

Will Apple’s new AI chief fix Siri?

Apple recently poached Google’s former head of search, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the 53-year-old Scottish engineer John Giannandrea, and now we know precisely what he's been tasked with doing at the Cupertino company.

Amazon is selling scary new facial recognition technology to law enforcement

Amazon has developed a powerful new facial recognition technology, reports ACLU NorCal. The service is called "Rekognition," and it analyzes people in real time, quickly scanning information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces. It's capable of recognizing up to 100 people in a single image, and the scary part is that Amazon markets the service to law enforcement and is actively helping governments deploy it.