So said TSA executive director of checkpoint tech Melissa Conley of airports’ use of facial recognition, in a New York Times story today.
70 percent of worldwide airlines may use biometric security by 2026 according to a report cited in the article. Yet the ACLU told the Times the tech still presents surveillance and discrimination concerns. That’s not to mention it could fail to work for tens of thousands of travelers every day.
That’s according to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, who writes in his Power On newsletter today that the recent departure of Bart Andre leaves just five of the company’s old-guard product design team.
While many of those have gone to work with Ive at his company LoveFrom, he wrote, Andre, who started at Apple in 1992, is retiring from the biz.
One of OpenAI’s employees showed off another of the company’s new text-to-video generator’s abilities.
This is some impressive AI creation of course, but what in blue blazes is happening in the upper right frame here?
As usual, Apple does a bang-up job making its “Shot on iPhone” footage look great in this short behind-the-scenes documentary for Usher’s Apple Music-sponsored Super Bowl 2024 halftime performance.
I think my favorite part is the revelation that they used leaf blowers to make that red sheet fly behind Alicia Keys (well, during rehearsals, at least).
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation added notes to over 2,600 benchmark results (here’s an example) accusing Intel of cheating one of its tests by tuning compilers mostly from Xeon server CPUs to overperform on a pair of specific benchmarks, according to Tom’s Hardware.
As PCWorld noted yesterday, companies’ decisions on spending “millions, sometimes billions of dollars” often hinge on third-party benchmark results like those SPEC supplies.
Trick shot social media star Tristan Jass got an NBA Jam moment last night during the Ruffles All-Star Celebrity game last night, thanks to the LED screens sitting under the laminated glass surface of the ASB Lumiflex LED basketball court.
If you missed it, you’ve got another shot tonight, starting between 8:30PM and 9PM ET when the NBA All-Star weekend continues with dunk contests and 3-point shootouts. The LED court won’t be used for the actual All-Star game on Sunday, though.
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lunar lander snapped a few selfies with ol’ Mother Earth yesterday while on its way to the Moon.
There are a few more high-res pictures over at Intuitive Machines’ website. If Odysseus succeeds in its mission, it will be the first successful US-launched Moon landing in over 50 years.
I keep a pretty bushy mustache, and it seems to prevent the headset’s downward-facing cameras from seeing and translating what my mouth is doing to my Persona’s real-time expressions during a Vision Pro FaceTime call. Apparently, I’m not alone.
In fairness, Persona is still a beta feature. Maybe visionOS 1.1 will save my friends from this horror show.
