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However, the privacy commissioner found that Bunnings breached the nation’s privacy laws by failing to appropriately inform customers about its use of facial recognition technology. Bunnings was ordered not to repeat or continue the acts and practices that led to the interference with individuals’ privacy. Bunnings acknowledged that it did not inform customers on its […]
Power your device with the magic of Google’s text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology. Google Speech-to-Text functionality Speech Recognition provides speech-to-text functionality to Google and other third party apps to convert what you say to text. For example, it can be used by: • Google Maps when you use your voice to search places • Recorder App […]
It has been nearly 70 years since Francis Thomas Bacon developed a source of clean green energy that would help power the first moon landing and change the course of history. Yet, few are aware of the Essex-born, Cambridge-based engineer whose invention of the first working hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell helped send Apollo 11 to the […]
Meta is preparing to harness facial recognition once again, but this time, the goal is to combat scammers without breaking privacy laws. The social network aims to help Facebook and Instagram detect and crack down on so-called “celeb-bait ads,” which exploit a celebrity’s image to trick users into visiting a scam website. Meta’s advertising system […]
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered platform for developers who share their code, work together, and build amazing things. But out of the more than 100 million developers that call GitHub home, there are a few exceptional talents and technical experts who go above and beyond in helping others in the developer space – the […]
This post was updated on October 01, 2024. tl;dr In recent years, there have been rising instances of facial recognition technologies and biometric scans being deployed by India’s union and state government agencies to record attendance. This technology is being deployed at public offices, hospitals, and schools without adequate checks or safeguards, endangering vulnerable data […]