I tried moving my legs and torso in the most contorted way possible. Every time, the software guessed that it was me. Your gait is like a fingerprint, unique and impossible to falsify. I was being ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BEIJING — Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: “gait recognition” software that uses people’s body shapes and how they walk to ...

The country already has an Orwellian social credit system and over 170 million CCTV cameras keeping an eye on its citizens night and day. Virtually all of those cameras can be used with facial ...

Huang Yongzhen, CEO of Watrix, demonstrates the use of his firm's gait recognition software at his company's offices in Beijing. AP BEIJING — Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new ...

Bottom line: Improvements to human recognition technologies are going to make it extremely difficult to move throughout China without being under a constant state of surveillance. Gait recognition ...

In brief: It's no secret that China is a big fan of facial recognition technology, but the system has its limitations, especially if people know to hide their faces. That's where AI startup Watrix ...

Oct. 25 -- Michael Jackson has his infamous moonwalk, John Wayne had that memorable cowboy swagger, and Mae West was noted for her remarkable sashay. But according to scientists, one day it may be ...

China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — more than 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like “smart specs” to seek out suspects in crowds, but now its ...

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from ...

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese technology startup has begun selling software that recognizes people by their body shape and how they walk, enabling identification when faces are hidden from cameras. Already ...