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BIOMETRICS

Face biometrics use cases outnumbered only by important considerations

Louisiana bill would bring biometric age checks to bars

EU pushes AI Act deadlines for high-risk systems, including biometrics

New York proposes biometric checks for sports betting apps

UK project uses supercomputers, synthetic data to improve emotion recognition

Agentic AI pushes financial sector toward continuous identity

UK lawmakers prepare for contentious national digital ID, police biometrics bills

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he’d made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns […]

Here’s how Amazon’s price fixing allegedly drove up prices everywhere

On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the evidence of alleged price-fixing by Amazon. The state filed a request to the Supreme Court in February for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon’s behavior while the lawsuit it originally filed in 2022 proceeds, and is now making that 16-page document available, “largely unredacted.” It lays […]

Increasing heat can boost malnutrition among children

In a study of 6.5 million children in Brazil, higher temperatures were associated with worse nutrition outcomes, especially in vulnerable groups.

Tesla launches robotaxis in Dallas and Houston, and oops, it’s already unavailable

Tesla claims to have launched a robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston over the weekend, but so far, online crowdsourcing tools indicate that very few cars are actually available. On Saturday, @TeslaRobotaxi posted a 14-second video of a Model Y vehicle driving without any human safety monitor in the front seats. Elon Musk re-posted the […]

Humanoid ‘Lightning’ robot smashes the half-marathon record

An autonomous scarlet robot named “Lightning” finished a 13-mile race in Beijing on Sunday in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds, less than half the time of last year’s fastest robot, which took two hours and 40 minutes. As Reuters reports, Du Xiaodi, one of the engineers who developed Lightning at smartphone company Honor, said […]

Gut Bacteria May Predict Parkinson’s Before Symptoms Appear

A major study identifies 176 gut microbe species that signal Parkinson’s risk years before symptoms, suggesting that gut health is a key early warning system for the disease.