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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The City of Orlando, Florida today confirmed that a pilot program involving the use of Amazon’s Rekognition facial technology has come to an end. The announcement comes a week after the American Civil ...

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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 ...

Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) computer vision platform that was launched in 2016. It has been sold to and used by several United States government agencies as well ...

AWS chief Andy Jassy speaks about AI on Wednesday at re:Invent. Photo via AWS livestream. Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on ...

Image recognition isn't really anything new. We've all seen facial recognition features on social media sites. More recently, various mobile computing devices, such as the Microsoft Surface Book 2, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon's controversial facial recognition program, Rekognition, falsely identified 28 members of Congress during a test of the program by the American Civil Liberties Union, the civil ...

Amazon announced a new capability today called Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to help customers train machine learning models to understand a set of objects when there is a limited set of ...