The notion of machine-powered facial recognition is one that predates today's actual technology for it by many years, thanks to robot POV shots from sci-fi films such as The Terminator and Robocop.

When you post photos of yourself or friends and family online, you may not imagine they could be used to develop facial-recognition systems that can identify individuals offline. A new site hopes to ...

With 2021 already well underway, face masks may remain part of our daily lives for the foreseeable future. During the height of the pandemic, masks were one of our key strategies for protecting ...

Facial recognition technology is coming of age. The new iPhone can be unlocked simply by looking at it, and accessing your smartphone is just one of many ways that facial recognition will change our ...

The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army’s corporate research department, last week published a pre-print ...

An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images. A mosaic of about 50,000 images from the ...

Facial recognition technology has allowed police departments across the U.S. to compare the faces of criminal suspects against social media photos, driver's licenses and mug shots. But the tech has ...

From unlocking smartphones to spotting criminals in crowds, there’s no shortage of reminders that facial recognition technology has gotten pretty darn good. Among humans, that is. But now researchers ...

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Researchers developed a new app that applies facial recognition software to cows. The technology would let ranchers track cattle in the event of disease and help create a national traceability system.