Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya says women and people of color look at technology from the outside—and have felt the negative impacts.”What I came to learn is that the people who are leading the data, the scientists and mathematicians and journalists and…
The speed at which facial recognition has grown comes down to the rapid development of a type of machine learning known as deep learning. Deep learning uses large tangles of computations—very roughly analogous to the wiring in a biological brain—to…
Facial recognition in criminal justice relies on a database—a big data dataset that contains photographs of potential matches. The software uses facial measurements to compare existing photos to the crime scene photos—making calculations in a fraction of a second to…
Currently, passwords are total chaos. In fact, most people have terrible passwords that are easy for hackers to guess. Even worse, many people use the same password for all their accounts, and they haven’t changed their password for years. So…
