Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from ...

Most people familiar with face-scanning software suite Amazon Rekognition, its place in the surveillance state, and its questionable efficacy are apt to fear what the consequences of such a technology ...

On a scale from one to Godzilla is coming!!! how scared are you of Amazon’s burgeoning, soon-to-be-ubiquitous object recognition software? Don’t lie about where you fall on the scale: Amazon’s AI now ...

Reported by the New York Times, new tests of facial recognition technology suggest that Amazon’s system has more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces compared with ...

Amazon’s facial Rekognition software, a brand which is being tested in Orlando as a surveillance system, misidentifies darker-skinned women as men roughly a third of the time, according to a new study ...

Amazon Web Services’ facial recognition technology, Rekognition, can now detect fear. At least, that’s according to Amazon — but given that the tech has been proven inaccurate again and again, it’s ...