Study outlines what creates racial bias in facial recognition technology
As facial recognition technology comes into wider use worldwide, more attention has fallen on the imbalance in the technology's performance across races.
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As facial recognition technology comes into wider use worldwide, more attention has fallen on the imbalance in the technology's performance across races.
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A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Korea and one in Estonia has found a way to use math to study paintings to learn more about the evolution of art history in the western world. In their paper ...
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When people have the option to click "like" on a media article they encounter online, they spend less time actually reading the text, a new study suggests.
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It has never been safer to fly on commercial airlines, according to a new study by an MIT professor that tracks the continued decrease in passenger fatalities around the globe.
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While you may not think about how the buttons and icons on your computer screen were designed, there's a lot of thought behind it. Designers had to consider not only what would be aesthetically pleasing, but what would be ...
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The ride-hailing era ushered in by Uber and Lyft once promised to complement public transit, reduce car ownership and alleviate congestion.
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Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don't think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures.
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found that cascade effects are more to blame for poor performance by London's commuter train system than are mechanical failures. In their paper published ...
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Nostalgia and reflection rule as emotional tugs and pulls as any year draws to its close and in 2018 there is a lot being said about Doug Engelbart.
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"Remote-controlled dog" were the three words lighting up Tuesday's tech headlines, and by the looks of it one was easily assuming this was yet another cute robot giving off puppy vibes for the elderly and children to enjoy.