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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon will sell its facial-recognition technology to whomever it damn well pleases thank you very much. That message was loud and clear Wednesday morning at the company's annual shareholder meeting, ...

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 ...

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 ...