In this photograph taken on August 9, 2017 a Chinese girl walks past the installed facial recognition screen at a road intersection in Shanghai. From toilet-paper dispensers to fast-food restaurants, ...

Facial recognition was a late-blooming technology: It went through 40 years of floundering before it finally matured. At the 1970 Japan World Exposition, a primitive computer tried—mostly in vain—to ...

A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill covers the intersection of privacy and ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published new guidelines it claims will help organizations optimize their efforts to detect face morphing software. Face morphing is a ...

Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person. This isn't a hypothetical ...

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