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The Detroit police department has been challenged over face recognition flaws, bias and has been called to abandon the technology.

Although firms like IBM have said it will no longer supply face scan software to police, several other players making the technology would.

Other less well known companies dominate the market in the US, including Tokyo-based NEC and the European firms Idemia and Gemalto

CEO Arvind Krishna says IBM no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition software, opposes its use for racial profiling.

The company will eliminate software and services that don’t align with its top two focus areas: cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Airtel will build its next generation core network, analytical tools and new consumer and enterprise services on this cloud platform.

The group, including telecom operators Vodafone, AT&T and Verizon, says it wants to avoid depending on any single technology supplier.

Researchers working on projects chosen by a consortium will be given remote access to the supercomputers for drug and vaccine research

Anyone with a recent computer can contribute by installing an app called Folding@Home which downloads a small amount of data for analysis

Research showed that the AI tools used by Microsoft and IBM were more likely to misidentify the gender of dark-skinned women

Krishna has replaced longtime CEO Virginia Rometty.

The expansion of the electric vehicle market is expected to cause shortages of the mineral mainly found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

IBM’s system will forecast down to 3 sq km and update hourly; compared to the current 10-15 sq km updated every six to 12 hours.

The American multinational information technology company also unveiled updates to key Watson tools.

IBM and McAfee announced that they have been joined by 14 others in an industry alliance being created to bring interoperability.

IBM has announced that it will build a 53-qubit quantum computer, the largest universal quantum computer available for external use yet.

IBM called for a fresh look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA 230).

Red Hat specializes in Linux operating systems, the most popular type of open-source software.

IBM has issued a patent for a smartwatch that when pulled out enough becomes the size of a tablet.

Suresh hails from Rangutota of Ongole and the family is settled in Dallas. Suresh was working with Syntel Software.