US Air Force is giving military drones the ability to recognise faces

Software commissioned by the US Air Force will allow drones to identify people via face recognition technology aappp/Shutterstock The US Air Force can now equip autonomous drones with face recognition technology, raising fears that they could be used to find and kill specified people. The drones will be employed by special operations forces for intelligence … Read more

Face recognition technology for pigs could improve welfare on farms

Machine learning software can identify individual pigs based on their facial features with high accuracy, which could help farmers give animals individualised food and veterinary care Technology 20 September 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Pigs have unique facial features that can be identified by machine learning software SRUC Pigs could be issued with biometric passports based … Read more

Why is Facebook ditching face recognition and will it delete my data?

Users of the social network will have their face data deleted, Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced, but it is less clear what will happen with the AI algorithms trained on that data Technology | Analysis 4 November 2021 By Matthew Sparkes Facebook will no longer use face recognition Bildagentur-online/Ohde/Alamy Meta is shutting down Facebook’s … Read more