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Friday, November 8, 2024
TopicFace recognition

Topic: Face recognition

How Ujjain’s Mahakal Lok is using AI, facial recognition to manage temple’s crowds & ensure security

After Tirupati & Kashi Vishwanath, Mahakal Lok Corridor of Mahakaleshwar temple is using tech to manage crowds of devotees. It has 700 high-res CCTV cameras & uses facial recognition tech.

AI isn’t just for future but the past too—it’s identifying Jews in photos from World War II

Here are 6 ways the technology is being used around the world to help us understand the past and prepare for the future.

Want to see your dystopian future? Look at China

If people in China don’t recognise the danger of a snooping government, they might eventually be unable to protest against it.

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Bangladesh needs big reforms before elections. Students didn’t die just to bring BNP to power

The Yunus administration has set up a Constitutional Reform Commission to draft a document that will "reflect the aspirations" of the ordinary Bangladeshis.

US President-elect Trump vows to slash trade deficit with India. How trade fared under him vs Biden

India-US trade in first 3 yrs under Biden was $122 bn, while it was $83 bn in Trump’s first term. Average trade surplus in India’s favour grew from $18 bn under Trump to $31 bn under Biden.

China unveils J-35A stealth fighter, with striking resemblance to US F-35. Here’s how they compare

The Chinese aircraft has uncanny similarities to the American F-35 jet. There are claims that China copied the design. Cyber theft of F-35 design data was reported in 2009.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.