Calls to abandon facial recognition use as wrongly identified Black man seeks Detroit police apology

The Detroit police has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias, especially as it is prone to errors identifying people of colour.

What's the deal with facial recognition software and how it's weaponised

Although firms like IBM have said it will no longer supply face scan software to police, several other players making the technology would.

Companies that dominate the market in the US are less well known, including the Tokyo-based NEC and European companies Idemia and Gemalto.

CEO Arvind Krishna says IBM no longer offers general purpose facial recognition software, won't condone use of any tech against human rights

The company will eliminate software and services that don’t align with its top two focus areas: cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Airtel will build its next generation core network, analytical tools and new consumer and enterprise services on this cloud platform.

The group, including telecom operators Vodafone, AT&T and Verizon, says it wants to avoid depending on any single technology supplier.

Researchers working on projects chosen by the consortium will be given remote access to the supercomputers for drug and vaccine research

Anyone with a recent computer can contribute by installing an app called Folding@Home which downloads a small amount of data for analysis

Research showed that the AI tools used by Microsoft and IBM were more likely to misidentify the gender of dark-skinned women