Microsoft today announced several updates to its Project Oxford portfolio of machine learning tools, which are aimed at developers. Microsoft has begun a public beta for a new application programming ...

Microsoft quietly launched a set of new machine-learning APIs in beta under the “Project Oxford” moniker yesterday and today it’s How-Old.net demo for this service went viral. This site lets you ...

Facebook's facial recognition research project, DeepFace (yes really), is now very nearly as accurate as the human brain. DeepFace can look at two photos, and irrespective of lighting or angle, can ...

“FACE recognition is ‘now’,” declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July. It certainly seems that way. As part of an update to ...