Amazon’s facial ID technology critiqued by new group of AI experts
Twenty-six researchers, including Yoshua Bengio, a recent winner of the Turing Award, the industry's highest honor, called for Amazon to stop selling its Rekognition AI...
Microsoft builds a bot to match patients to clinical trials
Patients, sometimes desperately sick, find it hard to comb through the roughly 50,000 clinical trials worldwide and their arcane and lengthy criteria. That’s where the the...
Microsoft cuts price on new HoloLens 2 as it aims for corporate customers WATCH
Microsoft is trying to make the new $3,500 device more useful right out of the box with prepared applications. It also doubled the field of...
Microsoft sales meet estimates, but cloud, PC concerns rise
Azure revenue grew 76 percent, but that’s slower than the near-doubling that the segment posted each quarter in 2017 and early 2018. At the same...
Walgreens teams with Microsoft to battle Amazon
As part of the accord to design "digital health centers," Walgreens will begin using Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing software, moving applications and data to the tech...
A new generation of artificial intelligence is taking on hackers
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and various startups are deploying machine-learning algorithms that crunch massive amounts of data on logins, behavior and previous attacks to ferret out...
Privacy groups urge tech firms to sign Safe Face Pledge to restrict use of facial recognition
The pledge unveiled by the Algorithmic Justice League and Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University asks companies not to provide facial AI for autonomous weapons...