AI-Powered Body Scanners Could Soon Speed Up Your Airport Check-in (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report on the Guardian:A startup bankrolled by Bill Gates is about to conduct the first public trials of high-speed body scanners powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the Guardian can reveal. According to documents filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Boston-based Evolv Technology is planning to test its system at Union Station in Washington DC, in Los Angeles's Union Station metro and at Denver international airport. Evolv uses the same millimetre-wave radio frequencies as the controversial, and painfully slow, body scanners now found at many airport security checkpoints. However, the new device can complete its scan in a fraction of second, using computer vision and machine learning to spot guns and bombs. This means passengers can simply walk through a scanning gate without stopping or even slowing down -- like the hi-tech scanners seen in the 1990 sci-fi film Total Recall. A nearby security guard with a tablet is then shown either an "all-clear" sign, or a photo of the person with suspicious areas highlighted. Evolv says the system can scan 800 people an hour, without anyone having to remove their keys, coins or cellphones.

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[ThatsNotPudding]

And give you real-time updated images of the tumors they create.

Re:The scanning bit isn't the problem

[frangryphon200]

I have seen a demo of this tech. It really is fast and easy to use and go through. You just walk through it, wearing everything. The only caveat that I saw was that people had to be separated by about 6-8 feet as they walked through to let the scanner work properly.