These words always get me excited. When they come in a press release, that is. So, this morning, I was positively giddy on reading this: "The wait is over." What a relief. I've won the lottery and can ...

Flying killer robots used to be a nightmarish sci-fi fantasy—something that only existed in James Cameron movies or Michael Crichton novels. These days, not so much. Not only is drone warfare close to ...

In addition to helping police arrest the wrong person or monitor how often you visit the Gap, facial recognition is increasingly used by companies as a routine security procedure: it’s a way to unlock ...

Facial recognition is a blossoming field of technology that is at once exciting and problematic. If you've ever unlocked your iPhone by looking at it, or asked Facebook or Google to go through an ...

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 ...

New research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggests face masks are hampering facial recognition systems. Because the protective coverings obscure the bottom half of ...