Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...

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Your car may soon know when you’re tipsy, stressed, or just mouthing words into the wind. From Ford’s lip-reading patent to radar systems that sense your mood and (of course) biometric driver ...

face-mask-detection/ ├── dataset/ │ ├── with_mask/ # Training images with masks │ └── without_mask/ # Training images without masks ├── model/ │ ├── mask_detector.h5 # Trained model (generated) │ └── ...

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Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology—a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, ...