Name that whale! How AI aces animal spotting

Sylvia Rook, lead officer for fair trading at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said that based on information provided by Panorama, replacing country-of-origin labels with “Made in the UK” ones in this way was “incorrect” and “could potentially mislead consumers”.

Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims it’s scraped 3 billion images from the internet to power its face-matching system, has proposed applying its technology to everything from policing to retail to dating, according to a 2020 patent application that became public on Thursday. The patent filing was made in August — three months…

Mortgage rates fell for the eighth consecutive week, giving cash-strapped home buyers some relief as the new year approaches. The average interest rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage clocked in at 6.67% for the week ended Dec. 20, down from 6.95% a week earlier, according to data released Thursday by mortgage giant Freddie Mac….

Walmart on Friday reversed their decision to remove all guns and ammunition displayed on the floor of its stores this week, amid concerns of civil unrest in major cities across the country after the killing of Black people by police. The major retailer had made a similar move in some of its stores in June…

Terrifying tales from passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight after a gaping hole opened in the aircraft prompted many people to wonder: How did everyone survive? The midair accident Friday could have been much worse, experts say, if the plane had already reached its higher cruising altitude, where the decompression could have happened with much…