The ACLU put Amazon's Rekognition facial scanning software to the test and the results were more than a little troubling. Comparing "every current member of the House and Senate" against a database of 25,000 publicly available mugshots, Amazon's software identified 28 lawmakers as folks who'd been arrested for a crime. Given what we've seen about facial recognition's shortcomings, especially in regards to people of color, the following might not be all that surprising: The false matches included six members of the Congressional Black Caucus. "Nearly 40 percent of Rekognition's false matches were of people of color, even though they make up only 20 percent of Congress," according to the ACLU. We've already seen how the public has reacted to Amazon's face-scanning tech.

Two years ago I took my first trip to Tokyo. The city exceeded my wildest expectations, an addictive blend of ramen, neon nightlife and tranquil parks. I spent a fortnight exploring the place, absorbing every street, shrine and video game store that wandered into my peripheral vision. It was a glorious adventure, and I would give anything to go back there. Tokyo, however, is an expensive place to visit, especially if you live on the other side of the world.

It's been nearly a decade since Gears of War launched. A lot has changed in 10 years: The Xbox 360 has given way to the Xbox One, Gears went on to be a blockbuster franchise for Microsoft, and developer Epic Games lost its Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski, who then went by the nickname "CliffyB." SEE ALSO: How'Assassin's Creed Syndicate' compares to the real dangers of London in 1868 Bleszinski, a man who seemed permanently tied to Epic and Gears of War, left the company in 2012, settling in for a retirement that turned out to be short-lived. Now his new company, Boss Key, is on the verge of launching its first game: a gravity-defying PC shooter called Lawbreakers. "It's one of the most gratifying things imaginable," Bleszinski told Mashable of the response to Lawbreakers at the recent PAX East show.