How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets

Witnesses describe an expansion of biometric surveillance as immigration agents use facial scanning and photography to track targets and bystanders.

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to ...

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI has launched Voxtral Transcribe 2, a new on-device speech-to-text model family featuring real-time transcription, ...
OSTechNix

Pocket TTS: High-Quality Local Voice Cloning Without GPU

Pocket TTS delivers high-quality text-to-speech on standard CPUs. No GPU, no cloud APIs. It is the first local TTS with voice ...
IEEE

Real-Time Human Finger Pointing Recognition and Estimation for Robot Directives Using a Single Web-Camera

Abstract: Gestures play a pivotal role in human communication, often serving as a preferred or complementary medium to verbal expression due to their superior spatial reference capabilities. A ...