Facebook said Tuesday that it will shut down its facial recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by ...

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Facebook announced today that, as promised, it has launched an automated system that will prevent advertisers from using racial categories in ads for housing, employment and credit. The system will ...

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence team today revealed a way to build speech recognition systems without using any transcribed audio data to train them. Speech recognition is one of the most ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by ...