Face recognition technology may sound futuristic, or perhaps too abstract to seem harmful. But we are already living in a reality in which face recognition and other forms of biometric surveillance ...

The Aurora Police Department could soon begin using facial recognition technology in criminal investigations and other aspects of police work. The technology is simple: Use computer software to match ...

On March 1, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, posted a short video on Telegram in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. In an ...

Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead. By Kashmir Hill A man whom the police are ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize faces, but could also have implications for ...