“The FRVT does that by leaning on the federal contracting process, but for anyone outside of that world (Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.), it’s still basically the wild west. But unlike a lot of issues in the tech industry, this is really not a hard problem to solve.”
“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
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“Documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure.”
Read: Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system
“Here’s some proof. The Echo and Alexa groups are currently looking to fill 400 positions, according to Amazon’s Alexa job page. The open positions run the gamut from data engineers to product managers to machine learning scientists.”
“One day recently, we visited Amazon’s website in search of the best deal on Loctite super glue, the essential home repair tool for fixing everything from broken eyeglass frames to shattered ceramics.”
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“Amazon has crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge — an annual competition that looks for robots that could one day work in the company’s warehouses. It’s basically American Idol, but for robotic arms that can grab items off a shelf and put them back again.”
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“Amazon has crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge — an annual competition that looks for robots that could one day work in the company’s warehouses. It’s basically American Idol, but for robotic arms that can grab items off a shelf and put them back again.”
Read: Amazon’s latest robot champion uses deep learning to stock shelves
“You can’t swing a cat in a San Francisco co-working space these days without hitting someone halfway through a passionate article expressing their love for the Amazon Echo, the voice-enabled speaker released by the retail giant in 2014.”
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