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It’s not uncommon for complex technologies such as facial recognition systems to have false positive rates but they’re ideally very low. Such a system would be very ineffective if it had a false positive rate of 90 percent but that’s precisely what the Welsh police’s system has.
The South Wales Police tested its facial recognition program during the Champions League Final in Cardiff, Wales last year. The system was designed to match attendees against a database of 500,000 images of persons of interest. The Guardian now reports that while the system yielded 2,470 potential matches, 2,297 of those matches were later discovered to be false positives.
Having 2,470 criminals at an event attended by more than 170,000 people is certainly not an ideal situation for a law enforcement agency so the number would probably have had the police do a double check. It turned out that the facial recognition system went overboard in trying to spot potential criminals as it wrongly identified 2,297 people. That works out to a false positive rate of 92 percent.
Additional data obtained by Wire revealed that the same system yielded a 90 percent false positive rate at a boxing match last year. At a rugby match, it yet again performed spectacularly worse, by yielding a false positive rate of 87 percent.
“Of course no facial recognition system is 100 percent accurate under all conditions. Technical issues are normal to all face recognition systems which means false positives will continue to be a common problem for the foreseeable future,” the South Wales Police department said in a statement, adding that since it introduced this system no individual has been arrested where a false positive alert led to a police intervention. It also added that no members of the public have complained.
Welsh Police’s Facial Recognition System Has A 90% False Positive Rate , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Android 8.0 Oreo brought support for picture-in-picture mode to Google’s mobile operating system, allowing nested playback even what an app was minimized by the user. Many apps have since been updated to support this mode and while Google was obviously the first to support this feature with the YouTube app, it decided to keep this feature locked behind the YouTube Red paywall. However, it appears that it’s now testing the picture-in-picture mode for non-Red users, which basically means any and all YouTube users.
Multiple reports have surfaced that some videos on YouTube are now allowing for picture-in-picture playback even when the user doesn’t have a YouTube Red subscription. However, don’t think you would get this functionality with a caveat, though.
The reports also reveal that it has been left up to content owners to decide whether or not they want to allow picture-in-picture playback for their videos. It seems that the owners of most music videos on YouTube have decided to not allow PiP playback, which is a shame, as this feature would have primarily been used to stream free music from YouTube while working on something else on the device.
Google appears to be testing this feature on a small scale and it’s unclear right now if and when it’s going to roll out this feature to all YouTube users.
YouTube Picture-In-Picture Mode Being Tested For Non-Red Users , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Just look at Indiana.
Google today revealed that it has teamed up with JBL to develop a new hybrid soundbar that’s going to double as an Android TV-powered set-top box as well. It’s called the JBL Link Bar and it’s going to be an audio hub for the living room. Not only will it be the kind of soundbar that one would expect get from a company like JBL, it will also run Android TV which means it will power a smart TV experience for TVs. The JBL Link Bar is even going to come with Google Assistant integration so that users can easily control it using voice commands.
This is the first device of its kind and it’s not going to be the last. Google says that the JBL Link Bar is the “first in a series of hybrid devices that delivers a full Assistant speaker and Android TV experience.” This means that Google will be teaming up with companies other than JBL to launch similar products down the line as well.
It’s also interesting to note that aside from using “Hey Google” voice commands to control media playback, it will also be possible to give Assistant voice commands to play music from the hybrid soundbar even when the TV is powered off. It’s going to hook up to a TV over HDMI with input switching through voice so that users can easily jump between sources.
No pricing information has been revealed at this point in time but Google did say that JBL will start selling the Link Bar later this year in the fall.
Google And JBL Reveal A Hybrid Soundbar With Android TV , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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