Think fast – this system watches you answer questions to make sure you’re human

 The machines are getting smarter and facial recognition may not be enough to tell you’re a human. Machines can make faces too but they’re not so good at answering questions with them. That could lead to a new, more effective type of CAPTCHA. Read More

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Order burgers with your face with this restaurant’s facial recognition kiosk

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Why bother trying to describe your perfect, nitpicky burger over the counter when you could just order one with your face?

Caliburger launched a new point-of-sale system on Tuesday that lets customers order using facial recognition technology. (This isn’t the first time the American fast food chain has gone high tech — it previously welcomed a burger-flipping robot called Flippy.)

The first time customers order using the in-store kiosks, they’ll be prompted to attach their face to their account using NeoFace biometric facial recognition software.

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By recording your face in the system, you’ll be able to automatically bring up a past order next time with a simple face scan, and earn points (or Calicoins) toward free food down the track. You still have to use your credit card for now, but the company hopes to replace this with face-only payment by 2018. Read more…

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Facebook will let you turn off facial recognition with one switch

Facebook is letting you decide whether or not you want your face to be recognized.
On Tuesday, Facebook released a new setting that lets users easily manage the facial recognition software across the social network, the company announced in a blog po…

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Private companies could have access to this country’s facial recognition database

Signing up for a phone contract? Telecoms companies could be getting another way to check you’re the right person.
When the Australian government announced in October it would add photos from government identification and driver’s licences to a natio…

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You probably don’t need to worry about someone hacking your iPhone X’s Face ID with a mask

 Touted as the iPhone X’s new flagship form of device security, Face ID is a natural target for hackers. Just a week after the device’s release, Vietnamese research team Bkav claims to have cracked Apple’s facial recognition system using a replica face mask that combines printed 2D images with three-dimensional features. No one really knows how legitimate this purported hack is. Read More

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Sheep trained to recognize Jake Gyllenhaal, for science

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Sheep can be trained to recognize celebrities like Barack Obama and Jake Gyllenhaal, new research shows. 

A University of Cambridge study found that sheep can learn to recognize human faces. The results were published Wednesday in the Royal Society’s Open Science journal as part of research looking into cognitive ability and neurodegenerative disorders, like Huntington’s disease, which can impair people’s ability to recognize facial emotion.

Researchers consider facial recognition as one of the most important human social skills. Sheep are known for their sociability, but this showed — with some training — the sheep could not only recognize fellow sheep and humans they knew, but process images of faces. Read more…

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