Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

Contrary to what one might think, your skincare routine doesn’t begin with sunscreen, serums, or your nutricosmetic supplements. A good face wash ritual is the unequivocal base for any serious ...

The latest Nebraska ID design motivated me to find out where my everyday-use data like drivers license photo and phone login is being stored.

For the first time, Milwaukee County Sheriff Denita Ball is explaining her decision to abandon her plan to implement facial recognition technology after considering community opposition and concerns ...

Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

Technology is outpacing what the human mind can distinguish between at a rapid pace. Artificial Intelligence can fabricate images and videos which look completely real to the average person in the ...

Humanoid robots are becoming harder to distinguish from real people, and a new study ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is developing plans to incorporate facial recognition technology into the smart glasses it produces with Ray Ban and Oakley. The new feature, dubbed Name Tag, would ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly approved a sweeping election bill that could alter how Americans register and cast ballots in federal elections. The Republican-controlled House passed ...

The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators. Darren Mowry, ...