On a hot summer day in 2017, at a defense technology summit hosted by the publication Defense One, Amazon Web Services (AWS) set up a booth. Flanked by notable defense contractors such as Lockheed ...

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy discusses new cloud services at AWS re:Invent 2017. (GeekWire Photo / Tom Krazit) Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify ...

Amazon is actively courting law-enforcement agencies to use a cloud-based facial-recognition service that can identify people in real time, the American Civil Liberties Union reported Tuesday, citing ...

You don't need to look very far to see examples of how machine- and deep-learning could enrich our lives. You might be surprised, given how often we hear about deep-learning nowadays, that most ...

A recently released study by researchers at the MIT Media Lab tested Amazon Rekognition’s “facial analysis” tool on photos of men and women with a range of lighter and darker skin tones and found that ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The FBI is piloting Amazon’s facial matching software—Amazon Rekognition—as a means to sift through mountains of video surveillance ...

Image recognition isn't really anything new. We've all seen facial recognition features on social media sites. More recently, various mobile computing devices, such as the Microsoft Surface Book 2, ...

Amazon’s Rekognition facial surveillance technology has wrongly tagged 28 members of Congress as police suspects, according to ACLU research, which notes that nearly 40 percent of the lawmakers ...

On Tuesday, Amazon said that the one-year ban on US police being permitted to use the facial recognition technology solution would continue to stand, as reported by The Washington Post. The previous ...

AWS chief Andy Jassy speaks about AI on Wednesday at re:Invent. Photo via AWS livestream. Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on ...