A former security officer at Reno’s Peppermill Casino claims its facial recognition technology routinely misidentified customers, sometimes producing as many as 12 false matches with 100% confidence in a single shift.
‘Twelve Times in a Single Shift’ Gamino worked as a Peppermill security officer from October 2024 until July 2026, according to his August 28 declaration.
He claims the casino’s facial recognition technology frequently produced erroneous matches, including alerts assigning 100% similarity to people who clearly did not resemble those in its database.
In a separate declaration, he said he had never previously known the Peppermill’s facial recognition system to make an incorrect identification.
The ACLU and Innocence Project argue that facial recognition matches alone cannot establish probable cause for an arrest.
Oct 13, 2026 · via casino.org
Market Size and Projected Growth in the Image Recognition Market Forecasts indicate that the image recognition market will surpass $148 billion by 2030.
Leading Segments Within the Image Recognition Market The image recognition market is categorized by techniques such as QR or barcode recognition, object recognition, facial recognition, pattern recognition, and optical character recognition (OCR).
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Oct 13, 2026 · via einpresswire.com
Apple says HomeView can recognize up to six different people to deliver a “personalized experience” for each user.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has more details on how HomeView’s facial recognition feature works.
HomeView’s face recognition support According to Gruber, a user must have a “registered personal device” with Apple Intelligence support in order to be “recognized” by HomeView.
Your first question might be how this facial recognition to identify users works, using a Center Stage camera alone, when other products (like, notably, the iPhone Duo) don’t let you unlock using the camera alone.
This means the Apple Watch does not count as a “registered personal device” for facial recognition on HomeView.
Oct 13, 2026 · via 9to5mac.com
Brent Venables given major recognition for Oklahoma's Red River Rivalry win over Texas appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Oklahoma football entered the Cotton Bowl unranked and written off ahead of facing No.
Now coach Brent Venables earned a major award after outcoaching Steve Sarkisian.
Oklahoma turned to a familiar blueprint to topple Texas: Venables' area of expertise defense.
Courtland Guillory snatched the last Manning pass to hand Oklahoma its chance to score the winning points.
Oct 12, 2026 · via sports.yahoo.com
The second is a Margin Calibration Classifier, or MCC, which begins as a copy of the target classifier that the defender wants to protect.
The SPN now processes adversarial examples and hands the resulting purified images to the Margin Calibration Classifier, which uses them to recalibrate its own decision geometry.
The evaluation focused on transferable adversarial attacks, the most realistic threat model for black-box defense.
Subject of Research: Black-box adversarial defense for deep neural networks using joint image purification and decision margin calibration Article Title: MAPLE: manifold-aligned purification with logit-edge calibration for robust black-box adversarial defense Article References: Zhou, N., & Yi, P. (2026).
MAPLE: manifold-aligned purification with logit-edge calibration for robust black-box adversarial defense.
Oct 12, 2026 · via bioengineer.org
The connection between construction waste and energy production also explains the book's broader ambitions.
For contractors, project managers and construction technology developers, those accounts offer the book's clearest value.
In an Oct. 9 interview with ENR, Thomas discussed the industry's skepticism toward new technology, the economics of waste recovery and lessons learned from Woodchuck's early setbacks.
* * * ENR | What separates useful construction AI from the AI hype?
ENR | How does Woodchuck's approach reduce construction waste costs?
Oct 12, 2026 · via enr.com
Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London © Sophia Loeb 2026 Photo: Ana Pigosso Sophia Loeb (SL): I think living between Brazil and London has made me realise that a landscape doesn’t necessarily have to belong to a specific place.
Sophia Loeb Vinde nevoeira, revoará sobre a morada, 2026 Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London © Sophia Loeb 2026 Photo: Ana Pigosso MA: Accumulation in your work is accompanied by erasure.
It's not just an experience of the image, but of the texture, scale, light and physical presence of the work.
Main Image: Sophia Loeb Levitamos sobre o abismo, 2026.
Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London © Sophia Loeb 2026 Photo: Ana Pigosso
Oct 12, 2026 · via artdependence.com
We can only imagine the loads of material a driving school in Texas could supply visual storytellers.
And fortunately for us, local filmmakers Arthur and Fatimah Muhammad pounced on the chance to spin their tales of running a Tarrant County driving school into a comedy feature film.
Aptly titled “Shift Happens,” their new comedy film over the matter will have its first screening at the 30th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival on Thursday, Oct. 15.
The Annual Urbanworld Film Festival is based in New York and is “the world’s largest internationally competitive multicultural film festival and an Academy Award-qualifying event.”
The couple are also the forces behind The Reel Coffeehouse, a cinema-themed café in the Arlington area, as well as Sweet Chariot Driving School.
Oct 12, 2026 · via fwtx.com
Following this week's reports of a near 95 million euro deepfake fraud at Intesa Sanpaolo's private banking arm, the identity layer is no longer the perimeter.
The scale, by the numbers Shufti Pro projects deepfake-powered identity fraud will rise 495% in 2026.
Sumsub's 2026 report puts deepfake fraud at roughly 6.5% of all fraud attempts globally, up from 0.1% in 2022.
The quiet winners Firms with layered identity, liveness and behavioural analytics (Pindrop, Veriff, Fourthline, Ping Identity, Adaptive Security and a handful of others) are converting board-level anxiety into contracts.
Banks that still treat identity verification as a one-off onboarding event are, as of this Friday, carrying unpriced risk.
Oct 12, 2026 · via financexmagazine.com
Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers takes subtle shot at media over lack of Jaylen Warren recognition appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Watch sports LIVE with fuboTV (free trial) When the reporter clarified he was referring to Jaylen Warren, Rodgers took the opportunity to criticize the national media for the players they choose to highlight.
"Jaylen Warren was everything they needed him to be today.
He was Jaylen Warren," Tomlin said.
Related: Steelers' Rico Dowdle gets injury update while Jaylen Warren dominates in his absence
Oct 12, 2026 · via sports.yahoo.com
Developing industrial artificial intelligence (AI) requires "world AI" capable of understanding the physical world, and Korea has an increasingly important role to play in this field, according to Yann LeCun, widely regarded as one of the four leading figures in the global AI academia.
He therefore advocated developing world models that can learn the physical laws and causal relationships governing the real world, allowing AI systems to predict the consequences of actions and interact with their surroundings.
“If you want a system that acts in the real world or the digital world, the system has to have the ability to predict the consequences of its own actions.
ASI Foundry CEO May Hwang, who organized the event, said the expertise and experience accumulated by Korea's manufacturing industry will be an important competitive advantage in the era of industrial AI.
“Korean companies can play a role not only in adopting global industrial AI technologies, but also in helping establish standards for how these technologies operate and are used in real-world industrial settings,” Hwang said.
Oct 12, 2026 · via koreatimes.co.kr
Second, SimCLR contrastive self-supervised learning pre-trains an encoder on the combined real-and-synthetic corpus, learning discriminative retinal representations without label supervision.
In ophthalmology, demonstrated lesion-guided contrastive learning for DR grading, and Multi-Instance Contrastive Learning () constructs positive pairs from images of the same patient, capturing clinically meaningful patient-level features.
Both datasets formulate diabetic retinopathy grading as a five-class classification problem, with labels 0–4 corresponding to no apparent diabetic retinopathy (No DR), mild non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), moderate NPDR, severe NPDR, and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), respectively.
6 Conclusions This paper presented an integrated deep learning framework for five-class diabetic retinopathy severity classification that advances our earlier multi-model inception ensemble by incorporating class-conditional diffusion-based augmentation and SimCLR contrastive self-supervised pre-training.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06555-x Summary Keywords class imbalance , contrastive learning , convolutional neural networks , denoising diffusion probabilistic models , diabetic retinopathy , domain shift , ensemble learning , external validation Citation Abidalkareem A, Ibrahim AK and Zhuang H (2026) Diffusion-augmented contrastive learning for diabetic retinopathy severity classification .
Oct 12, 2026 · via frontiersin.org
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Oct 12, 2026 · via themoscowtimes.com
Adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models and autonomous systems has changed the basic blueprint of Data Centres.
GPU data Centres have been in the limelight by virtue of their significant contribution to Artificial Intelligence.
In fact the strong correlation makes GPU Data Centres and Artificial Intelligence go hand in hand, to the extent that their survival is inter-dependent on each other.
Adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models and autonomous systems has changed the basic blueprint of Data Centres.
As of now, major Cloud providers are investing heavily into AI centric Data Centres, as AI workloads are pushing data centre growth.
Oct 11, 2026 · via greaterkashmir.com
He went to her home and then allegedly tricked her into sleep, then he used his ex’s fingerprint to unlock her phone, then lifted her iris to unlock her Alipay account and transferred around $24,000 from her digital wallet.
ADVERTISEMENT The bizarre case of stealing happened in Nanning, a city in southern China near the Vietnam border.
According to Nanning Evening News, the man, surnamed Huang, visited his former girlfriend, surnamed Dong, on December 26, 2020, to discuss a long-overdue repayment.
(Image: iStock) ADVERTISEMENT Huang transferred 154,147 yuan, approximately $24,000, from her Alipay balance, credit services, and bank accounts.
It also noted that the original Nanning Evening News report, published on December 12, 2021, did not describe him lifting her eyelids or even mention facial recognition.
Oct 11, 2026 · via m.economictimes.com
The approach, which the authors say has never before been applied to intrusion detection, transforms raw network traffic data into grayscale images and then analyzes those images the way a vision model would analyze a photograph.
The core insight behind the work is that network intrusion data, despite arriving as tables of numbers, contains patterns that can be made visible.
Network traffic is notoriously lopsided: in a typical dataset, normal connections vastly outnumber malicious ones, which can bias classifiers toward simply labeling everything as safe.
The experimental evidence spans three benchmarks that have anchored intrusion detection research for years.
All three datasets, while canonical, are laboratory benchmarks; real network traffic is noisier, more diverse, and subject to distribution drift as new services and protocols appear.
Oct 11, 2026 · via bioengineer.org
Coupang Eats has begun developing technology that automatically reads unit numbers and product details in "delivery completed" photos and cross-checks them against delivery drivers' location data to determine whether an order was misdelivered.
According to reporting by The Seoul Economic Daily on the 11th, Coupang Eats is developing and moving to commercialize technology that uses delivery completion photos together with drivers' location data to identify misdeliveries.
Combined with the driver's GPS location data, the system confirms whether the actual delivery location matches the order address.
Coupang Eats has also added a safeguard at the photo-taking stage.
Coupang Eats believes the cross-verification of delivery completion will also make it easier to assign responsibility in cases such as misdeliveries.
Oct 11, 2026 · via en.sedaily.com
Rather than assigning a label to one photograph, the system treats facial behavior as an exchange unfolding over time.
Dig deeper into facial expressions and human–AI interaction These resources examine facial analysis tools, emotional interpretation and the ethical limits of expression-based AI.
Py-Feat: Python Facial Expression Analysis Toolbox: Introduces an open-source toolkit for detecting, analyzing and visualizing facial-expression data.
(Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2019) OpenFace 2.0: Facial Behavior Analysis Toolkit: Describes software for analyzing facial landmarks, action units, head pose and gaze.
The original story "New webcam-based AI system reads and responds to human facial expressions" is published in The Brighter Side of News.
Oct 10, 2026 · via thebrighterside.news
The City of Caldwell intends to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, but not the use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs).
The Caldwell City Council voted in October to switch from Flock to Axon, approving a 10-year contract totaling $6.7 million, according to KTVB.
The City of Caldwell, in September, confirmed to Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) that it would be ending its contract with Flock Safety.
The portal also includes documents regarding its agreements with Flock Safety, as well as a map of Flock cameras in Caldwell.
The Wilder City Council shot down a proposal targeting Flock cameras on Sept. 1, with Mayor Justin Devenberg casting the deciding vote.
Oct 10, 2026 · via idahofreedom.org
East Midlands Airport (EMA) in Leicestershire is the first in the United Kingdom to introduce facial recognition technology, a new contactless system that will allow passengers to pass through electronic passport gates (eGates) without needing to present their passport.
Nationwide rollout The UK’s Home Office plans to extend the technology to all 13 UK airports with eGates by early 2027.
The contactless system is already in use in countries such as Dubai and Australia.
The government estimates that the new contactless system is up to 25% faster than the current process of physically scanning a passport.
East Midlands airport EMA’s Managing Director, Steve Griffiths said: “We’re delighted to be the first UK airport to have contactless eGates introduced by Border Force.
Oct 10, 2026 · via travelradar.aero