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Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification
Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.
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Microsoft Phone Link App on Windows 11 to Gain Support for OCR Features: Report
Microsoft Phone Link app is set to introduce text-copying capabilities on Windows 11, according to a report. The feature would reportedly work using the optical character recognition (OCR) feature which is already present in several other apps, enabling users to copy text from images. It was spotted in a Preview Build version of Windows, as per the...
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Gboard Tests 'Scan Text' Feature to Insert Text from Captured Images: How it Works
Gboard is getting a new Scan Text feature that will allow you to point your camera at text and quickly insert it into any app you are using. The optical character recognition feature is already available as part of Google Lens, but adding it to Gboard means that users can easily insert text without switching apps. The arrival of the feature on Andr...
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ChatGPT Updated With Support for Voice Conversation, Image Recognition Features: Details
ChatGPT is being updated with voice conversations and image recognition and will soon be able to understand images captured or shared by users and capable of back-and-forth conversation with "human-like" audio, according to OpenAI. Here's everything you need to know about OpenAI's latest ChatGPT features that are coming to its premium subscribers i...
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Clearview AI Plans to Bring Facial Recognition Software to Apps, Police-Serving Companies
Clearview AI is planning to introduce its facial recognition software to new companies and apps, especially those serving the police. The step has invited debate over the ethics of leveraging disputed data to design artificial intelligence systems.
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Octi Metaverse-Inspired Video-Sharing App Launched, Will Reward Creators With Digital Currency
Octi seeks to capitalise on burgeoning consumer interest in augmented reality, a technology that superimposes computer images over the real world.
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Zoom Rolls Out Center Stage, Expanded Gallery View Features for iPad Pro Users: All the Details
Zoom offers Center Stage support on Zoom 5.6.6 or later on the 11-inch (third generation) and the 12.9-inch (fifth generation) 2021 iPad Pro models only. Apple’s Center Stage allows Zoom to track users across the room, if they are moving, and make them visible on screen. It even recognises when others join or exit the frame, automatically adjusti...
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Twitter Finds Its AI Tool Tends to Crop Out Black People, Men From Photos
Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm has a problematic bias toward excluding Black people and men, the company said in new research, adding that "how to crop an image is a decision best made by people."
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Worried About Privacy for Your Selfies? These Tools Can Help Spoof Facial Recognition AI
These new tools make tiny changes to an image that are not visible to the human eye but can confuse an AI, forcing the software to make a mistake.
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Google Photos for Desktop Web Gets Google Lens Functionality
Google Lens expands from mobile to desktop Web client. It utilises optical character recognition (OCR) to analyse and search for texts from images. Check out all the details.
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Facebook Acquires Crowdsourced Mapping Company Mapillary
Facebook on Thursday acquired Swedish mapping technology company Mapillary, which collects images from tens of thousands of contributors to build immersive and up-to-date maps, the companies said.
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Dropbox Introduces Image Text Recognition for Premium Users, Can Scan PDF, JPEG Files for Text
The image text recognition feature has only been made available to Dropbox Professional, Business Advanced, and Enterprise accounts.
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Google Camera Update Brings Google Lens to Pixel, Nexus Devices
Google Lens was unveiled at I/O last year as an image recognition tool that could provide contextual suggestions for objects that you scan with the camera.
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Microsoft Bets on Faster Chips, AI Services, to Win Cloud Wars
Microsoft has spent the past few years coming up with ways to use artificial intelligence internally. Now it will let customers take advantage of some of these tools.
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Facebook Uses Instagram Photos, Hashtags to Improve Its Object Recognition AI
Facebook has trained an image recognition system based on 3.5 billion Instagram photos.
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Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification
Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.
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Microsoft Phone Link App on Windows 11 to Gain Support for OCR Features: Report
Microsoft Phone Link app is set to introduce text-copying capabilities on Windows 11, according to a report. The feature would reportedly work using the optical character recognition (OCR) feature which is already present in several other apps, enabling users to copy text from images. It was spotted in a Preview Build version of Windows, as per the...
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Gboard Tests 'Scan Text' Feature to Insert Text from Captured Images: How it Works
Gboard is getting a new Scan Text feature that will allow you to point your camera at text and quickly insert it into any app you are using. The optical character recognition feature is already available as part of Google Lens, but adding it to Gboard means that users can easily insert text without switching apps. The arrival of the feature on Andr...
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ChatGPT Updated With Support for Voice Conversation, Image Recognition Features: Details
ChatGPT is being updated with voice conversations and image recognition and will soon be able to understand images captured or shared by users and capable of back-and-forth conversation with "human-like" audio, according to OpenAI. Here's everything you need to know about OpenAI's latest ChatGPT features that are coming to its premium subscribers i...
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Clearview AI Plans to Bring Facial Recognition Software to Apps, Police-Serving Companies
Clearview AI is planning to introduce its facial recognition software to new companies and apps, especially those serving the police. The step has invited debate over the ethics of leveraging disputed data to design artificial intelligence systems.
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Octi Metaverse-Inspired Video-Sharing App Launched, Will Reward Creators With Digital Currency
Octi seeks to capitalise on burgeoning consumer interest in augmented reality, a technology that superimposes computer images over the real world.
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Zoom Rolls Out Center Stage, Expanded Gallery View Features for iPad Pro Users: All the Details
Zoom offers Center Stage support on Zoom 5.6.6 or later on the 11-inch (third generation) and the 12.9-inch (fifth generation) 2021 iPad Pro models only. Apple’s Center Stage allows Zoom to track users across the room, if they are moving, and make them visible on screen. It even recognises when others join or exit the frame, automatically adjusti...
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Twitter Finds Its AI Tool Tends to Crop Out Black People, Men From Photos
Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm has a problematic bias toward excluding Black people and men, the company said in new research, adding that "how to crop an image is a decision best made by people."
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Worried About Privacy for Your Selfies? These Tools Can Help Spoof Facial Recognition AI
These new tools make tiny changes to an image that are not visible to the human eye but can confuse an AI, forcing the software to make a mistake.
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Google Photos for Desktop Web Gets Google Lens Functionality
Google Lens expands from mobile to desktop Web client. It utilises optical character recognition (OCR) to analyse and search for texts from images. Check out all the details.
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Facebook Acquires Crowdsourced Mapping Company Mapillary
Facebook on Thursday acquired Swedish mapping technology company Mapillary, which collects images from tens of thousands of contributors to build immersive and up-to-date maps, the companies said.
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Dropbox Introduces Image Text Recognition for Premium Users, Can Scan PDF, JPEG Files for Text
The image text recognition feature has only been made available to Dropbox Professional, Business Advanced, and Enterprise accounts.
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Google Camera Update Brings Google Lens to Pixel, Nexus Devices
Google Lens was unveiled at I/O last year as an image recognition tool that could provide contextual suggestions for objects that you scan with the camera.
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Microsoft Bets on Faster Chips, AI Services, to Win Cloud Wars
Microsoft has spent the past few years coming up with ways to use artificial intelligence internally. Now it will let customers take advantage of some of these tools.
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Facebook Uses Instagram Photos, Hashtags to Improve Its Object Recognition AI
Facebook has trained an image recognition system based on 3.5 billion Instagram photos.
