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By THE DATA TEAM “I CERTAINLY didn’t set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption,” says Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist who devised Python, a programming ...

Luxand's FaceSDK has proven its prowess in the recent National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT), delivering remarkable outcomes. Notably, it ranked ...

But it also helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash of biometric face-recognition data in the world,” the Courthouse News Service reports.