I joined GMP officers in the town centre to see how live facial recognition was being used to identify suspects and protect the public, with several sex offenders identified. As part of Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) Operation Avro, a "day of action" was held across Oldham on Thursday (July 23), targeting crime through a mix of enforcement activity, community engagement and new technology. Earlier in the day, I had accompanied the force on a raid, in which a cannabis farm was uncovered in Fitton Hill, and attended a traffic stop checkpoint where an illegal bike was seized, and new technology was used to test for drugs. After that, I headed to the town centre to see facial recognition in action, and the impact it has. Two live facial recognition (LFR) vans were parked in Market Place in the town centre, one outside Rhode Island Coffee and the other outside Costa Coffee, as part of the force’s wider clampdown in the borough. Inside one of the vans, Sergeant Lockett explained how the technology works. The cameras scan the biometric features of faces in real-time and compare them to a watchlist uploaded to the van’s computer system. If there’s a match, the system alerts officers, who manually review the footage to confirm the identification. Sergeant Lockett said: "So, if you walk into the detection zone and you're not on the watchlist, then the camera takes a biological template of your face, similar to your fingerprints. "If you're not on the watchlist, it will delete immediately, within, on average, 0.2 seconds. "We get a lot of people saying 'oh well, it doesn't really delete though does it?' "Myself, who has been trained in it as well as my other officers, we really can't retrieve that." He added the system is completely standalone and
Jul 27, 2026 · via theoldhamtimes.co.uk
Police are appealing to the public for sightings of a 31-year-old woman reported missing for two weeks from the Bay of Islands.
Zhane O’Neill-Harvey, 31, was last seen on Monday, July 13 around 1.30pm on Opua Marina but hasn't been seen or heard from since.
"While the photo of her is a recent one, we have information she may now be wearing a burqa-style covering, fashioned from clothing," a police spokesperson said.
Officers were eager to reunite O’Neill-Harvey with her family, who were worried for her safety.
Anyone who had seen O’Neill-Harvey or knew of her whereabouts or movements was urged to call 105.
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Can a protest FIR stop your passport, foreign degree or career? An FIR alone shouldn't derail a career or passport. Yet lawyers say disclosures, background checks, and delays are real concerns. That's why many students at Jantar Mantar wore masks, not to hide wrongdoing, but to protect what comes after the protest. "I have no fear of police cases. What wrong are we doing? We are asking the government to meet our demands. We have no ill intentions, so why fear? We need a better education system." Ravi, 22, a Delhi resident at Jantar Mantar, spoke these words while standing among students, many of whom had covered their faces with masks and glasses, a day before Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday (July 25). Ravi is young and full of energy. He appears not to realise that even a complaint against him can later create problems in securing a job, obtaining a passport, or gaining admission abroad. The students at the protest site told India Today Digital they were not trying to attack anyone. They had hidden their faces to protect their identities from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered facial recognition cameras deployed by the Delhi Police at Jantar Mantar. Exactly a week ago, on July 20, thousands marched under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in the Chalo Sansad protest. The agitation grew out of the NEET-UG paper leak. The protest turned into a confrontation with police last Monday. Delhi Police's facial recognition system units and mobile surveillance vans at Jantar Mantar were looking at every face walking into the protest site. India Today TV later reported that the system flagged more than 2,500 people with existing criminal records. Fifteen FIRs have been registered against protesters so far in the clashes that took place in and around
Jul 27, 2026 · via indiatoday.in
Thanks to advances in AI, popular calorie-tracking apps can now use a photo of a meal to estimate the nutritional content of what you're eating. Although these apps are convenient, a new study found that four photo-based apps underestimated the calories and fat content of meals by about a third. Photo-based calorie tracking uses AI image recognition to identify foods in a meal photo and estimate portion sizes. This information is then compared with nutrition databases to calculate estimated calories and nutrients. Photo-based calorie tracking apps are very popular, especially for people trying to manage their health or lose weight. However, the accuracy of many of these apps has not been thoroughly evaluated. Our study helps address this question by looking at whether these apps can reliably estimate calories." Aaron Hengist, postdoctoral visiting fellow with the Intramural Program, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health Olivia Charles, a postbaccalaureate intramural research training fellow at NIDDK, will present the findings at NUTRITION 2026, the flagship annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, held July 25–28 in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. The new research is part of a larger diet study at the NIH Clinical Center examining how the body processes nutrients when a person eats a low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) or standard diet. Meals for this clinical trial are prepared in a controlled metabolic kitchen, a type of research kitchen where ingredients are carefully weighed to the nearest 0.1 gram. To evaluate how well photo-based calorie-tracking apps estimate nutritional content from images, the researchers acquired standardized photos of 102 meals prepared as part of the diet study and then ran them through the MyFitnessPal, LoseIt!, CalAI and Appediet apps. "By using meals prepared in a tightly controlled metabolic kitchen,
Jul 27, 2026 · via news-medical.net
Abstract Wafer-scale and low-voltage operation are essential for practical artificial vision hardware. Here, we report a wafer-scale platform for artificial synapse and logic gate circuits with a yield exceeding 91%, utilizing coplanar self-aligned-gate (SAG) organic transistors that combine the narrow-bandgap semiconducting polymer DPP-DTT with a self-assembled monolayer dielectric. Coplanar SAG electrodes effectively suppress parasitic effects due to the reduction of gate-to-contact overlaps, enabling uniform transistor operation at low voltages (-6 to 2 V) across the wafer, delivering a high rectification ratio of 2.46 × 105. Under near-infrared illumination, the devices exhibit efficient phototransduction and reconfigurable modulation of synaptic plasticity between excitatory and inhibitory modes, with an ultra-low energy consumption of 5.28 fJ per event. In addition, minimal circuit configurations enable electrically driven NOT and NOR logic gates circuits as well as optical-electrical hybrid-input NOR logic operations, enabling maximize and simplifying the functionality of photosensing logic circuits. Furthermore, an artificial neural network constructed based on the SAG transistors further demonstrate the potential applications in handwritten digit recognition with a recognition accuracy of ~96% and image memory behavior. This work provides a scalable and effective path for developing low-power artificial synapses to neuromorphic artificial vision systems. Introduction Visual perception stands as a cornerstone of human information acquisition, with vision processing more than 70% of environmental data1,2. As a result, artificial vision systems play a pivotal role in contemporary society, integrating optical sensing, memory, and computation to emulate biological vision3,4,5,6,7. Optically driven artificial synapses are crucial, converting light into electrical signals and modulate synaptic weights8,9,10, thus reducing the need for photoelectric conversion circuits and simplifying system architecture11,12. In recent years, organic semiconductors like BPE-PDI13, DNTT13, PVP14, PSPMA15, PDPP4T16, and PVDF-HFP17, have emerged as favored materials for optical synaptic devices due to their tunable optoelectronic properties, ease of solution processing, and good compatibility with
Jul 27, 2026 · via nature.com
Abstract Although macrophages are a powerful cell-based platform for cancer immunotherapy, their antitumor functions, such as phagocytosis and inflammatory responses, are limited by the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Here, we show that decorating cancer cell membranes with bacteria-derived pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) initiates phagocytosis and inflammatory responses of macrophages toward cancer cells involving various pattern-recognition receptor signaling pathways. Bacteria-derived PAMPs were formulated into membrane-decorating nanoparticles, and these nanoparticles reprogrammed immunosuppressive macrophages into inflammatory phenotypes. Cancer cell membrane-attached PAMP nanoparticles maintained their immunostimulatory responses, stimulating macrophages’ antitumor functions. The fraction of phagocytic macrophages significantly increased when coincubated with membrane-decorated cancer cells, along with an increased secretion of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). Transcriptomic gene ontology analysis revealed that the response of macrophages to PAMP-decorated cancer cells resembled their response to bacteria, involving signaling pathways including inflammatory response and innate immune response. In a mouse model, locally injected membrane-decorating PAMP nanoparticles suppressed tumor growth. The therapeutic effect was more pronounced in combination with the chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin. Median survival days significantly increased in both the PAMP nanoparticle and the PAMP nanoparticle plus doxorubicin combination group with complete remission cases, compared to the doxorubicin group. Our findings provide insights into the use of macrophages as a cancer immunotherapy modality. Similar content being viewed by others Introduction The advent of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapeutics has revolutionized the treatment of hematological cancers.1 Clinical success in leukemia and lymphoma has demonstrated the potential of adoptive cell therapies to selectively eliminate malignant cells and induce durable therapeutic responses. However, effective cell therapies for solid cancers, which account for approximately 90% of all cancers,2 have yet to be successfully developed. Unlike hematological malignancies, solid tumors possess multiple barriers that limit the efficacy of immune cell-based therapies, including poor immune cell infiltration,
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Understanding MOSIP: What the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform is and how it is used MOSIP has become one of the world’s most influential digital public goods, providing an open-source foundation for countries building secure, sovereign and interoperable digital identity systems. As adoption expands, the platform is evolving beyond software into a global ecosystem of governments, implementation partners, technology providers and standards that is reshaping how national digital identity infrastructure is deployed. This 47-page Biometric Update report examines MOSIP’s architecture, governance model, ecosystem and real-world deployments, explaining why it has become a cornerstone of modern digital public infrastructure (DPI). It explores how countries are using MOSIP to strengthen digital sovereignty, accelerate implementation, reduce vendor lock-in and build trusted identity systems that can support broader digital government and digital economy initiatives. Who should read this report? This report is designed for government digital identity agencies, policymakers, multilateral organizations, implementation partners, technology vendors, systems integrators, standards bodies and enterprise leaders evaluating MOSIP or planning national digital identity and digital public infrastructure (DPI) initiatives. It provides strategic and technical insights for anyone seeking to understand MOSIP’s architecture, governance model, implementation approaches, ecosystem and its growing role in building interoperable, sovereign and scalable digital identity systems. Watch: Understanding the Growing MOSIP Ecosystem Watch this webinar on the growth of the MOSIP ecosystem, lessons from country implementations, the evolving role of technology providers, and what governments, vendors and systems integrators need to know as adoption expands globally. MOSIP is rapidly emerging as one of the most influential ecosystems in digital identity, supporting national ID, civil registration, authentication and digital public infrastructure initiatives around the world. Featuring Sanjith Sundaram, Vice President, Partner Ecosystem at MOSIP; Andrew Wise, Lead Product Architect at Integrated Biometrics;, Jozef Drgona, Solution Manager at Innovatrics; Yodahe Zemichael, Executive Director, Ethiopian National ID Program,
Jul 27, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
Smart Education Revolutionizes Learning in Yinchuan In Yinchuan, smart education initiatives integrate AI into classrooms, enhancing learning experiences and efficiency. Students and teachers benefit from innovative tools, revolutionizing traditional educational methods across Ningxia. Par Qin Ruijie, People's Daily In Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, a group of seventh graders from Ningxia No. 15 Middle School has developed a smart bird-repelling system to protect goji berry fields. The system automatically detects birds approaching the fields and plays pre-recorded raptor calls to deter them. Powered by AI image recognition, it protects crops without harming wildlife. This is just one example of the school's efforts to build a distinctive curriculum that integrates general education with AI. "Several companies have already contacted us about turning the students' idea into a real product," said Xie Wei, the principal of the school. He summarized the school's goals in simple terms: "We want to lighten teachers' workloads and give our students more room to grow." The transformation brought by smart education can be felt throughout the campus. For Chinese teacher Bao Ling, lesson preparation used to be a time-consuming process. "I used to spend several evenings preparing audio and video materials for a single class," she recalled. Now, she routinely uses AI tools to turn textbook content into animated lessons. While teaching the essay Pear Blossoms Along the Post Road, she transformed the text into an immersive visual experience, with pear blossoms blooming across the screen and the story unfolding in vivid detail. "A single video can help students grasp the entire text," Bao said. "Students are more engaged and spend more time looking up and participating, while lesson preparation has become much more efficient." AI has also made literature feel more personal. Through AI-generated characters, students can "talk" with famous Chinese
Jul 26, 2026 · via alwihdainfo.com
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has started to move beyond chatbots and is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, often without us even realising it. One of the key areas where AI is being heavily used is our smartphone cameras. Smartphone brands have been refining their camera capabilities with AI-powered features such as scene recognition, computational photography, portrait enhancement, low-light optimisation, image upscaling, object removal, and much more. However, there are a few smartphones that stand out with impressive AI camera features that go beyond basic photography. Top 5 smartphones with AI camera features iPhone 17 Pro Max: Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max combines computational photography with deep system-level hardware-software integration, bringing an advanced AI-powered photography experience. The AI works behind the scenes to refine lighting, exposure, and tone for noise reduction and accurate colour reproduction even in pitch-black environments. It offers improved focus and intelligent scene recognition capabilities, making it a great pick. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: This flagship phone comes with a 200MP sensor, an advanced ProVisual Engine and Galaxy AI camera smarts. It also offers features like Photo Assist, AI generative editing, uses AI Image Signal Processing (ISP) and noise-reduction algorithms, and much more. Vivo X300 Pro: Vivo’s ZEISS partnership pairs high-end optics and powerful AI image processing algorithms. The X300 Pro offers advanced AI camera features like AI Portrait Engine, AI Super Telephoto with Zoom Enhancement, AI Stage, and much more. The smartphone is perfect for professional photography when paired with the camera kit. Google Pixel 10 series: This smartphone series combines the power of the Tensor G5 chip and Google's Gemini models, bringing a pleasing AI camera experience with features like Camera Coach for real-time guidance on framing, composition, angles, and lighting, Auto Best Take, Pro Res Zoom, and Conversational Photo Editing Oppo Find X9 Pro:
Jul 26, 2026 · via businesstoday.in
Facial Tech At Protest Sparks Privacy Row Student organisations and digital-rights advocates have questioned the deployment of facial recognition systems at a public demonstration Even as the CRPF reportedly examines allegations of “unjustified” and excessive force, including the use of pellet guns by Rapid Action Force personnel, the Delhi Police’s deployment of facial recognition technology during the July 20 student protest has triggered a wider debate over surveillance, privacy and civil liberties. Defending the use of AI-enabled Facial Recognition System cameras, DP-Drishti and Ikshana surveillance vans, and mobile command vehicles, Delhi police said the technology helped identify more than 2,500 people with criminal backgrounds and prevented anti-social elements from entering the protest site. Student organisations and digital-rights advocates have questioned the deployment of facial recognition systems at a public demonstration. They argued that indiscriminate scanning of protesters, particularly in the absence of a clearly defined legal framework, could undermine privacy and have a chilling effect on the constitutional right to peaceful assembly. The parallel controversies over crowd-control methods and technology-driven surveillance have intensified calls for accountability and greater transparency over the conduct of security agencies during the protest. The Delhi Police has also indicated that its investigation into the alleged conspiracy behind the clashes will continue even if the cases registered over the protest are withdrawn. Investigators are reportedly examining CCTV footage, digital evidence, mobile phone records and witness accounts to identify those suspected of planning or instigating the violence. Official figures put the number of injured students at nearly 70, including one protester who reportedly lost an eye after being hit by pellets. Police, however, claimed that around 200 security personnel were also injured in the clashes. ( Source : Deccan Chronicle ) Next Story
Jul 26, 2026 · via deccanchronicle.com
What are the protesters saying about facial recognition cameras? 25 July, 2026, 05:20 pm Last modified: 25 July, 2026, 05:26 pm Video of ফেসিয়াল রিকগনিশন ক্যামেরা নিয়ে কী বলছে আন্দোলনকারীরা? | CJP Protest | India | The Business Standard Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel TBS World
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The Pokémon Company in Japan has introduced a new measure to counter Pokémon TCG scalpers: a âfacial recognition systemâ that will check to see if someone has entered a store âmore than once in one day,â and refuse re-entry to those who attempt to purchase from a select location twice in the space of 24 hours. This news comes directly from the official Pokémon Card Game website, in an update issued on July 24. For context, this is a completely separate measure from the one issued on July 21 via the same website, which stated that Japanâs Government ID âMy Numberâ cards will be used to limit Pokémon TCG purchases and lottery entries online and in stores. ãé¡èªè¨¼ã·ã¹ãã å°å ¥ã®ãç¥ããã ãã±ã¢ã³ã«ã¼ãã¹ãã¢ã§é²ç¯ãé©åãªå ¥åºãè³¼å ¥å¶éã®å¤æãç®çã¨ããé¡èªè¨¼ã·ã¹ãã ãå°å ¥ä»å¾ãã±ã¢ã³ã»ã³ã¿ã¼ã§ãå°å ¥ããã®ã§ããããð¤ çããçã«ã¯é¡èªè¨¼ã·ã¹ãã ã®å°å ¥ã©ãæãã¾ãï¼ä¸»ãªãã¤ã³ãð â å°å¦ç以ä¸ã対象 â å ¥åºã»æ´çå¸ååæã«é¡èªè¨¼â¦ pic.twitter.com/UWIZwWiKYs— ãã±ã²ãã¡ããããï¼ ãã±ã¢ã³ã«ã¼ãã¾ã¨ã (@PokeGetInfoMain) July 26, 2026 âAt Pokémon Card Stores, in order to provide a safe and secure shopping environment for all customers, to prevent crime, and to ensure compliance with appropriate entry and purchase rules, we will be using a facial recognition system to verify the identity of customers aged elementary school age and older when they enter the store and receive their numbered tickets,â reads the notice on the Pokémon Card Game website (machine translated from Japanese). âTo ensure compliance with our entry rules, if we observe multiple attempts to enter the store, our staff may speak to you individually.â Based on the way the notice is worded, getting caught attempting to bypass the facial recognition checks and enter a store twice in one day will simply earn you a stern talking to. Itâs also unclear if these one-time entry checks are per store, or will prevent you from entering subsequent Pokémon stores too. While the response to the announcement outside of Japan
Jul 26, 2026 · via kotaku.com
Meta isn’t the first company to enter the smart glasses segment, but it has launched the first commercially successful smart glasses on the market. However, Meta’s smart glasses have gained a poor reputation for privacy. These products are equipped with small cameras that allow users to record their surroundings, and most of the time, other people can’t even notice it. Of course, Meta has included some protective measures in its glasses, including a light to indicate when they are taking pictures or recording videos and the option to automatically turn off recording if the light appears to have been tampered with. Although, these measures might not be enough to gain the public’s trust. Meta’s glasses’ reputation regarding privacy has reportedly caused Apple to delay the launch of its smart glasses and spend more time fine-tuning its marketing messages and technical features. According to Bloomberg"s Mark Gurman, Apple’s Vision hardware group, which is working on smart glasses, has made privacy its No. 1 priority. Instead of simply saying users should trust its glasses, Apple will reportedly emphasize distinctive features such as on-device processing, eliminating facial recognition, and removing a Meta-like super-sensing mode that continuously analyzes a wearer’s surroundings. Apple will also prevent contractors from reviewing footage captured by its glasses. “It’s also prototyping a slew of new hardware and software-related privacy features not available on current products,” Gurman added. Apple now has two potential solutions to deal with the issue. The first is to entirely eliminate the camera on its smart glasses, which would still allow users to access AI features, audio, and phone calls, but there would be no option to record moments. Gurman claimed Apple has prototyped a similar concept during the development of its glasses. The second solution is to include a camera but not allow it to
Jul 26, 2026 · via neowin.net
Facial recognition cameras lead to suspect arrest every 90 minutes in crime crackdown In January, the government unveiled plans to expand the programme nationwide Don't Miss Most Read Latest Live facial recognition cameras scanning the streets of England and Wales led to an arrest roughly every 90 minutes during deployments last year, according to data obtained through freedom of information requests. Across 369 separate operations carried out by 14 of the country's 45 territorial police forces, approximately 9.25 million faces were checked against watchlists, resulting in 1,317 people being taken into custody. Around 450 of those detained were suspected of violent offences. The Metropolitan Police accounted for the majority, deploying the technology 231 times, scanning 4.2 million faces and arresting 1,133 individuals. In January, the government unveiled plans to expand the programme nationwide, quintupling the fleet of surveillance vans from 10 to 50. The technology has proved instrumental in tracking down suspects who might otherwise have evaded justice. Dejean South, 25, avoided capture for over a year following a break-in in January 2024 before facial recognition cameras picked him out in Woolwich in March last year. He subsequently received a suspended 22-month sentence at the Old Bailey for aggravated burglary and bail breaches. In another case, Oghenekaro Adeda, 28, was spotted by a camera in Lewisham in July last year while subject to a sexual harm prevention order for harassment and stalking. Officers found he had been concealing his browsing history using a private application, breaching the order's terms. Live facial recognition cameras scanning the streets of England and Wales led to an arrest roughly every 90 minutes | PAHe is currently serving 20 months. At last year's Notting Hill Carnival, the cameras contributed to 61 arrests, one involving a man accused of stabbing a victim five times with a
Jul 26, 2026 · via gbnews.com
Face-scanning police arrest a suspect every 90 minutes More forces are using facial recognition and a national rollout is coming. This is how it’s gone so far Previous Article Next Article
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I frequently recommend video doorbells as an excellent starting point for home security, so I also keep an eye on potential problems. Earlier this year, I covered a lawsuit over Ring’s smart doorbell privacy practices. Now, two additional lawsuits seeking class-action status have been filed against Google Nest. Together, the lawsuits encompass a large portion of the video doorbells used in the US. But they focus on a specific, newer feature not all video doorbells offer: AI face recognition technology. The suits raise questions about whether these doorbells are snapping photos of strangers walking by — and what companies are doing with that biometric data. Read more: Ring Spotlight Cam 2026 Review Here are the details and, if you’re worried, why you don’t need to ditch your video doorbell in response. What are these lawsuits claiming video doorbells do? The three lawsuits — Sigwalt v. Amazon (PDF), Fennessy v. Google (PDF) and Trevino v. Google (PDF) — all make the claim that these security companies are using AI face recognition technology in ways that violate privacy rights. Slightly older lawsuits, including Ortega v. Amazon, are also ongoing. Specifically, this “familiar-face” tech can grab and analyze face photos from people who haven’t consented, including delivery workers, neighbors walking their dogs, strangers on the street and anyone else the doorbell camera may take a photo of. Security cameras have been automatically taking and storing videos of people for many years, but the lawsuits argue these familiar-face technologies create biometric “faceprints” that are collected without people’s consent and could be used to identify them against their will. I’ll discuss this more below, but both Ring and Google have previously acknowledged that their video doorbell facial recognition technology can violate certain laws — or at least become so legally complicated that it isn’t worth
Jul 25, 2026 · via cnet.com
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