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A funny thing happens, said Hoobox Robotics CEO Paulo Gurgel Pinheiro when people start to use Wheelie, an AI system that translates facial…

Technology can only do so much – it still needs human input. Credit: Arten Oleshko/Shutterstock Police officers’ ability to recognise and…

Lenovo has opened an unmanned convenience store in China, using it as a testbed for trialling facial-recognition, e-payment, Internet of Things…

IN THE brick-and-mortar world, retail chains and shopping malls have long relied on counting the number of occupied parking lots to estimate the…

China is increasingly dependent on facial recognition systems to name and shame citizens who jaywalk, but it reportedly hit a snag this week. A…

The field of robotics is fast-growing. Robots can now perform complicated movements with elegance — back-flipping, practicing parkour moves, even “carving” …

Microsoft has launched a free Windows app that uses machine learning to guess the facial expression you’re making when imitating an emoji. Called Emoji8,…

The activities of tech companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are being increasingly scrutinised and criticised by their own employees. As the world’s…

Breaking Tech Industry news from the top sourcesThere’s some turmoil brewing over at Miami-based facial recognition startup Kairos. Late last month, New…

Something Fishy Do all fish look alike? Well, not to a computer. You’d be excused if you weren’t even sure fish had faces. But according to a Bloomberg…