Pin ItemailprintFacebook is about to start taking the “Face” part of its name very seriously. In a somewhat creepy development, the popular social network will soon be able to recognize faces. Facebook will soon be changing the way friends are “tagged” in photos, the company announced yesterday. Beginning in just a couple of weeks, Facebook [...]
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Talk about personalized service! A new type of vending machine in Japan uses facial recognition to recommend drink selections based on the user’s age and gender. It must be working as sales have tripled over those from regular vending machines. The new machines were developed by JR East Water Business Company, a subsidiary of railway [...]
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Well, not really. However, there is a troubling glitch in the company’s new webcam facial recognition software – it can’t recognize African-American faces. In the video below, Wanda (Caucasian) and Desi (African American) seem to be two employees at a local electronics store. They uncover the flaw in the webcam’s software. The software picks up [...]
Image via CrunchBase You can’t run, you can’t hide. Facebook will find you. A new app from Face.com that launches in semipublic alpha today will bring facial recognition to Facebook. The app is called Photo Finder and it says it can help you find photos of yourself, and even your friends, that you didn’t know [...]
