The New York Times

‘It’s Going to Be a Long Speech’: Trump Prepares for State of the Union

President Trump does not like to practice reading the speech out loud, but he spent time mimicking the setup of the House chamber, officials familiar with his plans said. By Tyler Pager Reporting from ...
Futurism

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...
TechCrunch

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...
Wired

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...
IEEE

Collaborative AI Dysarthric Speech Recognition System With Data Augmentation Using Generative Adversarial Neural Network

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel collaborative dysarthric speech recognition system designed to convert dysarthric speech into non-dysarthric speech to enhance the robustness of automatic speech ...
Psychology Today

Giving Thanks at Work: The Science and Power of Recognition

This time of year, many of us pause to reflect on what we’re grateful for—family, friends, health, and the comforts of home. But there’s one group we often overlook: The people we work with every day.
TechRepublic

Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C’mon in. Meta has unveiled Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), an AI system that can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource ...
Windows Report

Set Up Speech Recognition in Windows 11 Step by Step

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Computers Are Getting Much Better at Image Recognition

Some computer vision programs have been thrown off by tricks such as manipulating the pixels in an image. MODIFIED FROM ISTOCK.COM / EYEEM MOBILE GMBH Anyone with a computer has been asked to “select ...
Wired

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...
IEEE

FPGA Implementation of PoolFormer Network Using Python-Driven High-Level Synthesis Framework for Edge-AIoT Speech Recognition

Abstract: This brief presents an edge-AIoT speech recognition system, which is based on a new spiking feature extraction (SFE) method and a PoolFormer (PF) neural network optimized for implementation ...
Aclu.org

Protecting Free Speech in the Face of Government Retaliation

The Trump administration is enthusiastically abusing its power to intimidate anyone who criticizes its policies, and to silence those who won't fall in line. Now, using a long-standing government ...