You Can Pay for Tickets in Chinese Subway Stations with Your Face China is one of the countries where face recognition has been implemented for a multitude of purposes. The Chinese government has now brought the face recognition system to subway stations that lets peoplepay using their face. As reported by theSouth China Morning Post, the Shenzhen subway station has gained support for this new facial recognition based entry along with a few other subway stations....

Arlo Pro 3 Is a Security Camera That Identifies Color in the Dark Arlo, a popular camera brand in America, has announced its latest home security camera. Named Pro 3, the camera comes with a whole bunch of useful features to set it apart from other competitive brands. One of the key highlights of Arlo Pro 3 is indeed the resolution of the camera. It can captureHDR videos in 2K resolution, which is an upgrade when compared to the brand’s own Pro 2 which could record in 1080p....

Chrome App is No Longer Used to Render Web Pages in Android 10 Android relies on WebView for rendering web pages inside apps – the pages you see inside a lot of apps that require user inputs. Login screens are a typical example of this implementation and it is highly likely that you would have come across one if you’ve been using an Android smartphone. Ever since Android 5 Lollipop, WebView became a separate component and from Android 7 Nougat, Chrome started handling it which will be changing again onAndroid 10....

DeepPrivacy Aims to Anonymize People While Retaining Their Facial Expressions One of the most important concerns in deepfakes is undoubtedly privacy, which is exactly what these researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has tried to fix. This new technique named Deep Privacy makes use of generative adversarial networks(GAN), the underlying technology employed in Deep fakes to anonymize the subjects while replicating their characteristics. The algorithms used in Deep Privacy extract critical facial expressions from the subject and runs it through the database trained with1....

Drones Are Now Used for Inspecting Car Breakdowns What would you usually do when you get stranded in the middle of a highway because your car broke down all of a sudden? Just like everyone else, you would Google the nearby repairing service and hopefully wait until the tow truck shows up. 360 Towing Solutions, a towing service in Houston, Texas is planning to redefine this approach by making use ofdrones....

DxOMark Now Considers Wide-Angle Shots and Night Mode Popular photo benchmarking website DxOMark which is considered to be the golden standard by several smartphone makers has just added two essential techniques for assessing the camera quality even better on modern smartphones. The new techniques included in the website’s extensive list of tools are for testing thewide-angle lens and night modecapabilities. “We are adding new Wide and Night scores—Wide to accommodate the popularity of ultra-wide cameras, and Night to evaluate the improved low-light capabilities and dedicated night modes of smartphone cameras....

Facebook’s Fashion++ AI Could Help You Step up Your Fashion Researchers at Facebook have developed an AI system that has the potential to step up your fashion, style, and dressing habits. Named “Fashion++“, the system makes use of adeep image-generation neural networkto identify your clothing and provide suggestions to make yourself look better. Fashion++ will offer suggestions regarding what you’re currently doing wrong with your dressing style rather than coming up with a completely new style....