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With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (754+ words) With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras" capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder…...
Ring's Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help
3+ week, 5+ day ago (460+ words) When Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff decided to use the company's first-ever Super Bowl commercial to introduce Search Party " an AI-powered feature that uses Ring camera footage to help find lost dogs " he expected Americans to love it. Instead,…...
Amazon's Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (463+ words) Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, announced on Thursday that it will no longer partner with Flock Safety, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Ring wrote in a blog post that it made a…...
Ring brings its 'Search Party' feature for finding lost dogs to non-Ring camera owners
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (455+ words) Ring's AI-powered "Search Party" feature, which leverages the company's network of cameras to find lost dogs, is now available to all Ring customers in the U.S. For the first time, the feature will be made available to those who don't own…...
Ring is adding a new content verification feature to videos
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (484+ words) It's going to be more difficult to fake or manipulate Ring camera video footage going forward. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned device maker introduced Ring Verify, a new video authenticity feature that will allow anyone to determine whether a video has…...
Ring founder details the camera company's 'intelligent assistant' era
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (749+ words) What does it take to bring a burned-out founder back to the company he sold to Amazon? For Jamie Siminoff of the video doorbell maker Ring, it was the potential of AI " and the Palisades fires that destroyed his garage,…...
Amazon’s Ring doorbells get fire alerts, an app store and new sensors
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (305+ words) Amazon's augmenting its Ring smart doorbells with new features, including new fire alerts, an app store, and a new set of Ring Sensors. The company said the new Ring Sensors can detect motion, openings, glass breakage, and smoke, and can…...
Amazon's new Alexa+ feature adds conversational AI to Ring doorbells
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (452+ words) Amazon is adding a new feature to Alexa+ that adds a conversational AI to Ring doorbells, letting users manage deliveries, turn down sales folks, and let family or friends leave a message when they are not around. Called Greetings, the…...
Amazon's Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial recognition feature to video doorbells
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (784+ words) Dystopian or useful? Amazon's Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, dubbed "Familiar Faces," was announced earlier this September and is now…...
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (182+ words) Amazon's surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Now, agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with…...