She said most of it was filmed at home on her own phone because the company did not supply equipment.
She said she is in early conciliation through ACAS because she believes the redundancy was pregnancy discrimination.
She said the image dispute emerged after her departure, when she spotted an ad that seemed to use a frame from a video she had created on the job.
"The still is the same image; however, my eyes are a different colour and tattoos are gone," she said.
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Oct 14, 2026 · via thecooldown.com
Apple (AAPL) announced HomeView on Tuesday, a new smart home hub.
For Apple stock, the bigger benefit may be that more connected devices make customers less likely to leave the Apple ecosystem.
For now, Apple stock will likely keep trading on iPhone demand and memory costs.
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One of the biggest features that the Apple HomeView offers is the ability to recognize up to six members in a Family Sharing group.
This means that HomeView ensures that personal information, such as your calendar events and messages, can be viewed only by you when you view them on the HomeView.
The HomeView doesn’t have Face ID or a TrueDepth camera system; instead, the HomeView just has a 12MP Center Stage camera.
Thankfully, John Gruber from Daring Fireball provides more details on how facial recognition works specifically on the HomeView.
It’s still interesting to see how this would work on the Apple HomeView, as it was just a brief demo shown in the video above.
Oct 14, 2026 · via appleosophy.com
Denton, Texas-based Carton Council has launched a library to help artificial intelligence (AI)-powered sorting systems more reliably recognize food and beverage cartons.
The Carton Council is building a growing library of photographs showing cartons as they appear in the recycling stream.
Computer vision and AI-based material recognition systems identify objects moving across MRF conveyor belts based on characteristics learned from large collections of images.
Carton Council says the quality and diversity of the training images can play a role in how reliably the systems recognize materials under real-world operating conditions.
“Our goal has always been to work across the recycling system to improve carton recovery,” Carton Council President Jordan Fengel says.
Oct 13, 2026 · via recyclingtoday.com
The UK has published updated guidance governing Immigration Enforcement’s use of live facial recognition to locate people of immigration law enforcement interest, setting out rules for watchlists, deployment locations, human oversight and biometric matching thresholds.
The new guidelines instruct IE staff on “how to use overt LFR to locate relevant people lawfully and ethically” and “support IE’s and the Home Office’s legitimate immigration enforcement aims.
The policy also makes clear that Immigration Enforcement’s use of live facial recognition is not confined to ports of entry.
The guidance also provides for cooperation with police forces, including joint deployments in which Immigration Enforcement can supply watchlists for police facial recognition systems or process police-supplied data through its own systems.
The arrangements extend the potential operational reach of facial recognition in immigration enforcement while requiring deployments to remain subject to the policy’s safeguards.
Oct 13, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
Technology and Science13 October, 20262 min read Apple Launches HomeView Smart Display With Siri AI, Facial Recognition, And 7-Inch Screen This article is an automated aggregation of coverage from news outlets.
Apple unveiled HomeView, a 7-inch smart display hub powered by Siri AI.
HomeView arrives at $299 Apple introduced Apple HomeView as a new smart display designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it, and Apple said it is powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI at its core.
HomeView features Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri with broad world knowledge that powers richer music discovery and onscreen awareness.
HomeView can be used to make FaceTime calls and to manage smart home devices, and HomeView supports hands-free automations with voice control.
Oct 13, 2026 · via newscord.org
The meeting was held on August 20, the day after Craig Naylor, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS), went public with calls for facial recognition technology to be used to monitor who is attending football matches.
Police Scotland has never deployed facial recognition technology, although it is controversially used south of the Border.
The minutes of the meeting between the Scottish Government and Police Scotland in August state: “The Cabinet Secretary invited views on HMICS's recent comments regarding the potential use of Live Facial Recognition technology to help tackle football-related disorder.
“The Chief Constable noted that the technology is already used by a number of police forces elsewhere in the UK, as well as by Border Force in England and Wales.
The minutes add: “The Chief Constable … advised that work to implement the new arrangements was underway.
Oct 13, 2026 · via thenational.scot
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).
Market Share Distribution Among Leading Image Recognition Companies The image recognition market remains fairly fragmented, with the top ten companies accounting for just 10% of total revenue in 2025.
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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?
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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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