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Big Brother Watch (BBW), a civil rights organization from the UK that “works to roll back the surveillance state,” released a report in which it reveals that the UK Metropolitan Police’s experimental facial recognition system is wrong 98% of the time, thus making it virtually useless. AI And False Positive Rates Over the past few years, we’ve seen all sorts of companies claim that artificial intelligence (AI) systems have incredibly high-accuracy, whether it’s about facial recognition, content filtering, stopping malware, or what have. However, what they don’t say is that usually they test their systems against pre-selected data points to achieve those high success rate percentages. For instance, a developer of a content filtering AI system may claim that they are able to identify a high percentage of terrorist content on the web, but only when they already know that the content they’re analyzing is terrorist content. When the system is used to identify terrorist content out of many other forms of content, it may not only achieve a low success rate, but it may also misidentify other content as terrorist content, thus achieving a high false positive rate, too. Police's Automated Facial Recognition System This is basically what happened with the Met Police’s facial recognition system, too. Through 50 freedom of information requests, BBW was able to discover that, on average, a staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s “matches” were actually wrongly identifying innocent people. The Met Police’s facial recognition system had the worst track record, with only 2% matching accuracy and with 98% wrongly identified people. The system has only correctly recognized two people, none of which were wanted criminals. One was matched incorrectly on the watch list, and the other was on a mental health-related watch list. The force made no arrest using the automated facial recognition system. The South Wales Police’s facial recognition system wrongly identified 91% of the matches. The system led to 15 arrests or 0.005% of the total matches. Thirty-one innocent people were wrongly identified and were asked to prove their identity and innocence. All of the 2,451 people whose faces were automatically analyzed were stored for 12 months, a policy that came into place with the Investigatory Powers Act (Snooper’s Act), and which is likely to be unlawful. The majority of the people whose faces were scanned automatically were also not notified that the police system has "matched" them as targets. BBW Calls On UK Authorities To Stop Using Automated Facial Recognition Systems Currently, there is no legislation in the UK that regulates the use of facial recognition systems through CCTV cameras by the police, nor is there any independent oversight for the police’s use of these systems. BBW believes that the live automated facial recognition cameras that enable biometric identification checkpoints violate the Human Rights Act of 1998. Article 8 of the Human Rights Act says that any interference with the right to private life must be both necessary and proportionate. The BBW claimed that the live automated facial recognition cameras fail both of these tests: it is plainly disproportionate to deploy a technology by which the face of every passer-by is analysed, mapped and their identity checked. Furthermore, a facial recognition match can result in an individual being stopped in the street by the police and asked to prove their identity and thus their innocence. BBW also warned that surveillance technologies are developing so quickly that it has become difficult to follow and legislate them. However, the British people will need to decide whether or not they want to live in a world where they are continuously watched, intrusively surveilled, and biometrically tracked, and think about how that may affect their fundamental rights. The BBW called on the UK authorities to stop using the automated and highly inaccurate facial recognition systems until there are proper regulations and oversight in place.

It’s tough to imagine a more difficult buying decision than one in a relatively new product category like virtual reality (VR), especially when major innovations always seem imminent. We’ll witness many changes in VR platforms in the coming years, including significant enhancements like eye tracking inside HMDs (see the impressive demo we got from Tobii at CES 2018), peripherals and controllers that add more realism to games, hand and gesture tracking, and various forms of precision body tracking. And most recently, standalone VR headsets. Of course, if you’re always waiting for what’s next, you’ll never get to experience what VR has to offer today. Here are our current recommendations on VR systems. Among the many questions, we get about how to run PC VR HMDs (head-mounted displays) optimally is how to choose the best CPU for VR. Game developers and studios always list minimum specs, and as of this writing, they can vary wildly. We took some time to benchmark 11 VR games across a variety of CPUs to get a sense of how processing power affects performance. But that was before Microsoft pushed out its own VR platform. We’ve been waiting for new approaches to PC-based VR for a while. Until recently, there essentially were two major players: HTC’s Vive (and the new higher-end Vive Pro), buoyed by Valve and its dominant PC gaming platform Steam, and Oculus’ Rift, backed by social media colossus Facebook. But now, there’s another industry juggernaut solidly in the VR headset game: In October 2017, Microsoft rolled out the Windows Mixed Reality platform, which includes HMDs from several hardware partners like Dell, Acer, Samsung, and others. Oculus and HTC cater primarily to the gaming crowd (although both companies are after the commercial market, too), but Microsoft wants to corner the immersive productivity market. If you want to spend your workday in a virtual environment, a Windows Mixed Reality headset would be your best bet.Here’s everything you need to know about Windows Mixed Reality. We are also on the cusp of a few new initiatives, including headsets with higher resolutions and wider fields of view. HTC’s Vive Pro (which hit the market in April 2018) includes a combined resolution of 2880 x 1600, and Pimax is preparing for a (possible) Q2 launch of its 8K headset (despite some delays), which features dual 4K displays and a wide 200-degree FOV. All that said, despite new and exciting hardware always seemingly just over the horizon, the hardware that’s available today is still viable and compelling.

Browser alerts can be a lifesaver, letting you know about important, timely content that your favorite website just posted. However, it's also easy to tire of these notifications and want to turn them off. Fortunately, Chrome makes it easy to disable alerts from an individual site or from the entire Internet. 1. Navigate to chrome://settings/content/notifications. You can also get there by going to settings then content and then notifications, but why not just go directly? How to disable all notifications 1. Toggle "Ask before sending (recommended)" to Off if you wish to disable all notifications from all sites. After you toggle the switch, the UI will say "blocked." If you don't want to stop all alerts, skip this step. Now, not only will you not receive alerts, but you shouldn't be prompted to sign up for them either. How to disable notifications from particular sites 1. Scroll down to the "Allow list" 2. Locate the site you want to disallow. 3. Highlight the unwanted site URL and hit CTRL + C (or right click) to copy. 4. Click the three dots and select Remove from the menu. You will no longer receive alerts from that site, but it could still ask you to sign up again. Let's block it from doing so. 5. Scroll up to the "Block" list and click Add. 6. Paste (or type) in the URL of the site you want blocked and click Add. Now that site will not only stop sending you notifications, but also stop asking you to sign up for them.

Today, Microsoft introduced its newest take on collaborative work tech: the Surface Hub 2. Due out in 2019, the sequel to the original Surface Hub sports a design that's sleeker, more futuristic, and even more dynamic. The Surface Hub 2 boasts large screens that can be tiled on the wall, to produce a mega-surface, and can also be mounted to rolling easel-like stands. These displays can be rotated in the mount, seemingly with no resistance and no delay in re-alignment. Microsoft is targeting the Hub 2 at work, rather than play. The company's release video demonstrates the Hub being used to telecommute, work on projects, and make presentations. It may be for offices, but it appears to come straight out of Minority Report. The way the teams in the video seem to be able to swipe through a wall of screens, moving pieces and parts with a flick of a wrist is very ‘crime prevention Tom Cruise’ (pre- eye gouging). The exact specs aren’t out yet, but the Surface Hub 2 will have a 50.5-inch display with a 4K or greater resolution. Microsoft will really have to deliver on that display, as its teasers promise crystal-clear images and beautiful video quality. The Hub also seems to come equipped with a webcam and stylus for optimum workflow, but that’s really all the details we get for now. The announcement is mainly designed to get buzz going well ahead of next year's planned launch. I think it’s working.

After admitting that it let Cambridge Analytica use its network to grab unwitting users' data, Facebook has been on thin ice with both consumers and government officials. Now, the company wants to show that it can do a decent job of policing itself. Today, Facebook released its first Community Standards Enforcement Report, which details millions of pieces of content that have been removed from the site in 2018 for violating the network's standards. Of the roughly 1.5 billion posts and accounts that were removed from the site so far this year, the majority are spam (837 million) and fake accounts (583 million). Removing the fake accounts is significant, as Facebook works on damage control after bots were allegedly used to influence elections. By releasing these numbers, Facebook can claim that it's getting a grip on its community. However, it's important to note that the company says it deleted even more fake accounts (694 million) in Q4 of 2017. Numbers for other hot button issues caught in the cull include: adult nudity and sexual activity (21 million posts), graphic violence (3.4 million), hate speech (2.5 million), and terrorist propaganda (1.9 million). While Facebook uses what it calls “detection technology” to root out offending posts and profiles, the software has difficulty detecting hate speech. Of the total 2.5 million hate speech posts removed, only 38 percent were pulled by Facebook’s tech before users reported it. Compare that to the 95.8 percent of nudity or 99.5 percent of terrorist propaganda that Facebook purged automatically. Facebook noted in the report that, “Hate speech content often requires detailed scrutiny by our trained reviewers to understand context and decide whether the material violates standards.” Whether this leaves room for human bias is yet to be seen. The renewed attempt at transparency is a nice start for a company that has come under fire for allowing its social network to host all kinds of offensive content. We'll have to see whether Facebook continues to share data with the public in the weeks and months ahead.

We recently reviewed the HP EX920 high-performance NVMe SSD that has a great balance of performance and cost, but both are still too high to entice budget shoppers to move to the M.2 NVMe standard. HP's new EX900 is like the carrot on a string in front of the budget donkeys. The HP EX900 uses the Silicon Motion SM2263XT DRAM-less NVMe controller with Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology. There are a few buzzwords in that sentence that we explain in our SM2263XT controller preview article, but we'll hit the broad strokes a bit later. The HP EX900 entry-level NVMe SSD comes to market in 120GB, 250GB, and 500GB capacities. There isn't a 1TB option, but DRAMless 1TB SSDs suffer from degraded performance in higher capacities, so you aren't missing much. The EX900 doesn't share the same impressive performance specifications as our SM2263XT-powered reference design sample. It looks like HP published specifications without HMB enabled, which represents the lowest performance you could expect. The 500GB EX900 sports sequential read/write performance of 2,100/1,500 MB/s, but performance varies by capacity. Random performance is tighter across the three capacities. The 500GB EX900 sports 120,000/108,000 random read/write IOPS, and though performance scales with capacity, even the smallest model is much faster than the best SATA SSDs. The basic features of the SM2263XT controller carry over to the EX900 and many other products that use the same controller. Many of the features have become standard across the industry, or at least very common. For instance, entry-level SSDs almost exclusively utilize four channels to the flash and advanced low-density parity check ECC (error correction code). Flash-based devices do not place the data where the operating system requests because they need to spread wear evenly across the NAND. Essentially, the SSD has two maps of the LBA addresses: the logical map where the host "thinks" it is placing data and the physical map of where the SSD actually places the data. The SSD uses the translation table to find the stored data when the operating system issues read or write requests. That process relies heavily on speedy DRAM, but memory is expensive. HMB technology allows SSD manufacturers to remove the DRAM on the SSD and use a small amount of your system memory (RAM) to achieve similar results. In general, a 512GB SSD will consume 512MB of system memory, but the dynamic cache grows based on the amount of data stored on the SSD. The amount of data used by HMB is a pittance compared to the amount of RAM in a typical system. It's an invisible process, but there are some limitations; it only works on Linux and post-Creator's Update Windows 10 versions. The technology does not work on Windows 8 or older operating systems. The EX900 adds to the standard feature list through extensive compatibility testing and firmware tuning for HP devices. The EX900 also works in other branded computers as well as DIY home builds, but compatibility is only guaranteed with HP products that support the NVMe protocol. That means it won't work in your ten-year-old desktop that doesn't support PCI Express. You'll have to use common sense when choosing to upgrade an existing computer.

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With its bold lines and aggressive styling, all wrapped in tempered glass and filled with the company's new vortex LED fans, Cougar's Panzer G chassis might be ideal the case for buyers who are tired of monolithic designs. Keep in mind that this chassis' top notch cooling performance and rugged good looks come with a higher-than-average price of $120. Cons Price (For Some) No USB Type-C port Pros Great Thermal Performance Best In Class Audio Performance Tempered Glass Side Panels Three 120mm LED Fans Attractive Aggressive Styling Verdict : The Cougar Panzer G is a feature-rich chassis with broad appeal and great performance. The sharp lines and aggressive style might not be for everyone but the chassis’ overall performance will delight gamers, overclockers and performance enthusiasts alike. The tempered-glass side panels and LED-lit fans are just the cherry on top. Well known in the enthusiast PC community, Cougar has spent the last decade refining its "Real Gear for Real Gamers" approach across a line of products that inclues power supplies, gaming peripherals and computer chassis. The latter is what brings us here today. Measuring 565 x 208 x 520mm (HWD) and tipping the scales at just under 25lbs, the Panzer G's rather imposing design is constructed of steel, plastic, and tempered glass panels. The black on black paint scheme gives this chassis a bit of an ominous, sinister look. The top panel of this chassis is darkly tinted tempered glass, held in place with four thumbscrews, with mounting locations for two 120mm or 140mm fans and a magnetic mesh filter directly under it. The area where the top and front panels meet is home to two USB 2.0 ports, a pair of USB 3.0 ports, a large power button, and headphone and microphone jacks. The left, right, and front panels are tempered glass as well. Like most cases equipped with tempered glass panels, the Panzer G uses rubber-coated locating pins and thumbscrews to secure the panels to the frame. Air intake vents on either side of the top and front panels provide a direct path for fresh air to be drawn into the chassis. The front and top panels have cut-outs along the sides to allow air into the chassis as well. Much like the FSP CMT510, tabs at the bottom of the side panels require tilting them 45° out and away from the chassis before lifting them up and off the frame. The bottom of the case has two filter-covered holes, one for the power supply, one for an optional 120mm fan, as well as four large, rubber-coated plastic feet. The rear of the chassis is home to seven card slots, a motherboard I/O area, an opening for a bottom-mounted PSU, and an exhaust-fan mounting location for 120mm fans. The fan filtration system is fairly robust in terms of its ability to prevent most dirt and dust particles from entering your system. As mentioned earlier, the metal mesh filter on the top of the case is attached by magnetic seals at the edge of the filter. The large filter in the front of the chassis also attaches to the frame via magnets. The weak point in the filtration system would be the filters located in the bottom of the chassis. Cleaning and maintenance requires turning your system complete on its side. A third magnetic filter in this location would be a better solution.

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Nvidia put a fork in its now infamous GeForce Partner Program, citing recent negative commentary as the primary reason for the abrupt cancellation. The statement is the company’s first official response to the alleged foul play that was first brought to light back in March , with several outlets reporting that the program puts an unfair burden on its partners to align their gaming brands exclusively with Nvidia. Several AIB partners rebranded many of their AMD-based graphics cards a short time later, with Gigabyte dropping its Aorus moniker from its RX580 Gaming Box and Asus renaming its entire AMD GPU lineup. AMD made a direct respons to the surging reports of the implications, giving more credibility to the claim that the GPP could be having an effect on how vendors brand their respective gaming products. Nvidia claimed in its blog that it’s shutting down the GPP because it would prefer to cancel the program “rather than battling misinformation.” The company further dismissed the allegations of wrongdoing by claiming that the program was quite transparent, and that no bad blood existed between Nvidia and its AIB partners: With GPP, we asked our partners to brand their products in a way that would be crystal clear. The choice of GPU greatly defines a gaming platform. So, the GPU brand should be clearly transparent – no substitute GPUs hidden behind a pile of techno-jargon. Most partners agreed. They own their brands and GPP didn’t change that. They decide how they want to convey their product promise to gamers. Still, today we are pulling the plug on GPP to avoid any distraction from the super exciting work we’re doing to bring amazing advances to PC gaming. Although the cancellation of the Nvidia GPP may give those who already believe that the Green Team is pure evil all the confirmation they need that the program was indeed toxic, the surge of negative press coverage over the ambiguity of the published guidelines could just be enough of a headache for Nvidia to throw in the towel, and one could hardly blame them.

SEATTLE – At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft showed off a few new features that will enhance Windows 10. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president for Windows, detailed updates to Sets and Outlook. Sets, which will likely be a major part of the next update to Windows 10, is a way to organize windows with tabs, like how you already manage web browsing. For example, you might keep a few browser tabs, a PowerPoint presentation and an image editor open in one window if you were putting together a presentation. Additionally, entire Sets will be stored in the Windows Timeline so that you can pull up every app involved in a project. You can see our hands-on with sets from the build showfloor here . Microsoft is trying to entice developers into building Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps for the Microsoft Store, and we now know that those apps will work with Sets from the start. However, the company is also promising that your favorite Win32 programs and web apps will also be supported in Sets. Belfiore said on stage that Sets will be available "when we think that it is great," stating that it needs developer support to make sure that programs work with it. Additionally, Microsoft 365 will support Adaptive Cards, a feature that allows for interactions within conversations. The big focus is Outlook, where Microsoft is using these cards to introduce payments. With Microsoft Pay, users will be able to quickly pay their bills directly from their inbox. Program manager Charles Morris paid a bill in Outlook in just a few clicks, but it required the developer to create an adaptive card for it. Invoice partners supporting Adaptive Cards include Sage, Intuit, Stripe and Wave. Morris also showed an example were a form sent in an email from Github could be filled out in an email, without navigating to the actual site. Belfiore also suggested that the next Insider Build will put web pages in the Alt+Tab menu, making it easier to access specific web tabs you had open. Microsoft also took some time to announce new windows 10's phone-syncing features , including a “Your Phone” app that will let you connect your smartphone to read text messages, view photos and check notifications. This article originally appeared on Laptop Mag. Image Credit: Microsoft

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Android P is looking to take your digital life and make it more calm and organized. At the Google I/O 2018 Keynote event today (May 8), we saw how Google's adding features to make your phone adapt to you, cleaning up its user interface, and offering you tools so smartphone addicts can disconnect. The Android P Beta is now available to download on Google's Pixel devices, as well as select flagship devices from Essential, Nokia, OnePlus, Sony, and other vendors. That's a change from past Android updates when betas were restricted to Google's Pixel and Nexus devices. Here’s what you can expect if you put Android P on your phone. Design: Android cleans up nicely While we heard rumors of the iPhone X's notch being formalized in Android, Google spent time at I/O to show how it's cleaning up Android's look. First of all, the Google search bar is moving from the top of the screen to the bottom, so it's within reach, and you're not stretching your fingers. Google also slimmed down the home button and added new navigational gestures. Now, if you slide up from the home button on the bottom of the screen, you'll see all of your app icons. Sliding your home button to the left opens up multitasking views, and you'll be able to perform quick actions from this view, such as opening Spotify to listen to music from bands you're reading about in Chrome. Android's also getting App Actions. These are buttons for actions based around your habits, when Android can guess it knows what you want to do next. You'll also see more of the apps you love inside of Android, thanks to Slices, where parts of apps — such as the ride-booking buttons from Lyft — will show up in your search results. This way, you'll finish what you want to do faster. Also, the volume buttons on Android phones will now default to adjusting the media volume settings instead of changing your notification sounds. (This announcement earned a large round of applause from the Google I/O attendees.) Adaptive Android: Smarter battery use, display dimming Google touted on-device machine learning as one of its major weapons in learning what you do to make your phone run more smoothly. The first of these features is Adaptive Battery, where your phone will learn what apps you use most often and adjust how it uses energy appropriately. This resulted in a 30 percent reduction in CPU app wakeups, which Google said lead to "an increase in battery life for many users," though it didn't specify by how much. Its other major feature is Adaptive Brightness, in which Android won't rely on just the ambient lighting around you to set the screen to the proper brightness. Google noted that automatic brightness settings often lead to users manually adjusting their screen brightness, and this feature will let your phone learn your preferred brightness. This allowed half the users testing the feature to stop fidgeting with their phone's brightness. In an effort to ease privacy concerns, Google repeatedly emphasized how the machine learning takes place on-device "keeping data private and out of the cloud." Wellness means rethinking our tech addiction Wellness was a major theme for Google, which highlighted how easy it can be to get lost in our portable screens. The Dashboard is central to Google's analysis of how much you use your phone, and it will track how much you use it, how many times you unlock it, your Gmail habits, and the hours of YouTube videos you consume. Putting down your phone at dinner can be a big problem, so Google's adding a Shush gesture that enables Do Not Disturb mode. To activate Shush, simply put your phone face down on the table. Because Do Not Disturb mode will mute notifications, including calls, Android allows you to set Starred Contacts. This way, you can instruct your Android device to always send you notifications from the important people in your life. For all the apps you spend too much time on — for me, it's Twitter — you can set app-by-app usage limits. Android will nudge you when you're nearing those limits and gray out the app icons when you've reached them. The apps should still work, so you're not shut out all together if something important happens. No more out-of-date apps Google is cracking down on apps designed for previous generations of Android in the P developer build, The Verge noted. If an app doesn't use a recent SDK targeting Android 4.2 or later, users will see a pop-up alert when they try to install it. Google will also require new apps to target Android Oreo by November. What's in a name? While Google outlined many — though not all — of P's features, it still hasn't told us what dessert-themed name the Android update will take. But that's not surprising: Google rarely reveals that information at its developers conference, saving the naming announcement for later in the summer, closer to the actual release date. Rumored candidates for the official name include Popsicle, Pineapple Cake, and many variations on Pie.