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In this Feb. 11, 2020, file photo, Silkie Carlo, left, demonstrates in front of a mobile police facial recognition facility outside a shopping centre in London. A Black man who says he was unjustly arrested because facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a suspected shoplifter is calling for a public apology from Detroit police, and for the department to abandon its use of the controversial technology. Several cities, led by San Francisco last year, have banned the use of facial recognition. (Photo | AP)

Facial recognition tech under scanner as wrongly identified Black man seeks amends

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

24 Jun 2020 6:44 PM

$Facial recognition technology has a dark side, with it integrated into China’s massive public surveillance system and its social credit experiment where even minor infractions of public norms can result in sanctions.$

Why it’s not easy to take facial recognition software off police’s arsenal

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

18 Jun 2020 10:37 PM

Ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the US and how police use technology to track people. In this picture, doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in a "White Coats for Black Lives" event in solidarity with George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California on June 11, 2020. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft joins Amazon, IBM to pause face scans for police, but they’re small players

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

12 Jun 2020 4:26 PM

The century-old technology firm called for responsible national standards regarding how facial recognition systems should be used by police agencies. In this photo, demonstrators hold a rally and teach-in outside of the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct, which has been boarded up and protected by fencing, on June 8, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.(Photo | AFP)

IBM says ‘no more’ to facial recognition business as #BlackLivesMatter gains momentum

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

09 Jun 2020 6:39 PM

IBM has struggled to compete with top cloud rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Thousands of IBM US jobs likely cut as new CEO Arvind Krishna sharpens firm’s focus

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

23 May 2020 7:36 PM

A cloud-based telecom network is considered more efficient and flexible in delivering services specially new applications at large scale in less time with reduced capital and operational expenditure.

Airtel selects IBM, Red Hat to build open cloud network for 5G, emerging tech

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

11 May 2020 8:50 PM

China-based Huawei and Europe-based Nokia and Ericsson are major 5G equipment suppliers. (Photo | Flickr - Christoph Scholz)

With Huawei banned in US, 30 firms such as Google, Samsung call for open 5G systems

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

06 May 2020 10:07 PM

The IBM Summit at a national laboratory in the US has already been working on a project to create a potential drug for the coronavirus COVID-19

US ties up with IBM, Amazon, Google to use 16 supercomputers for coronavirus research

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

23 Mar 2020 1:11 PM

Unlike the Sierra Supercomputer of the US' Department of Energy, the Folding@Home project is powered by people's desktops, laptops and even PlayStation consoles, as well as more powerful business computers and servers. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons)

You can aid coronavirus research: Hook laptop to crowdsourced virtual supercomputer

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

22 Mar 2020 1:06 PM

Admitting it was not possible to identify the gender of a person by appearance, Google said its image classification service Cloud Vision API would stop categorising people under gender labels (Photo | Pexels)

As Google’s AI drops gender labels like 'man', 'woman', Microsoft, IBM under pressure

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

01 Mar 2020 9:28 PM

Krishna will take over as the IBM CEO on Krishna will take over as the IBM CEO on April 6. (Photo: ANI) 6.

IBM names Indian-origin Arvind Krishna as CEO

Krishna has replaced longtime CEO Virginia Rometty.

31 Jan 2020 7:29 AM

IBM may not necessarily end up making a product using the design, IBM's head of research said.

IBM's new battery may be made of seawater materials

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

19 Dec 2019 1:06 PM

“The enhanced forecasts could be revolutionary for some areas of the world, such as for a rural farmer in India or Kenya,” said Cameron Clayton, head of The Weather Company, a subsidiary of IBM.(Representational Image)

IBM to launch faster weather forecast system to cover the globe

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.

15 Nov 2019 9:24 AM

With rising data privacy regulation and growing concern for bias detections in its AP platform, IBM announced a new capability called 'Drift Detection.'

IBM Advances 'Watson Anywhere' for Indian clients to scale AI on cloud

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

23 Oct 2019 8:24 AM

According to industry analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group, organizations use 25 to 49 different security tools from up to 10 vendors on average.

Cybersecurity leaders launch initiative to thwart attacks

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

10 Oct 2019 5:59 PM

The new machine will be a part of IBM's new Quantum Computation Center in New York State, which is essentially a data centre for the company's quantum machines.

IBM to soon build 53-qubit quantum computer

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

19 Sep 2019 9:09 AM

Silicon Valley has long opposed efforts to rewrite the decades-old Communications Decency Act.

IBM proposes change to 1996 law shielding internet firms

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

11 Jul 2019 2:52 PM

IBM has faced years of revenue declines as it transitions from its legacy computer hardware business into new technology products and services.

IBM seals USD 34 billion deal to buy Red Hat to boost cloud business

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

10 Jul 2019 12:38 PM

IBM has issued a patent for a multi-function smartwatch that’s pretty ‘ambitious.’

Smartwatch that converts to tablet? Yes, please

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

09 Jul 2019 8:53 AM

Suresh’s father, Mr Nunne Veeraswami, recalled Suresh as multi-talented and very intelligent. “We have not able to pacify his mother,” he said. Suresh had planned to come to India in about 10 days to extend the visa. He appealed to the state government and the Centre for help to bring back Suresh’s body. (Representational Image)

Vijayawada: Ongole native drowns in US

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

07 Jul 2019 2:50 AM

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My life in Covid-19 quarantine

Having made Mumbai’s streets his canvas and DSLR camera his paintbrush, photographer Star Udyawar’s narration of everyday life in the maximum city is riveting. As can be seen in his various portrayals of the city like the historic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Dhobi Ghat with its colourful backdrop, and the famous Sea-link. For Udyawar, perspective is key as it defines the in-depth relationship between the objects in a picture along with the dimensions that a viewer perceives.

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T K Sandeep is a photographer whose work consists of moody video poems and photo poems. One of his recent projects was a calendar in which he got hijras and transgenders in Kerala to tell him their dream professions, and then he photographed them dressed as those professionals.

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