Facial recognition is everywhere these days. Cloud servers churn through every picture uploaded to social media, phone cameras help put faces to names, and CCTV systems are being used to trace ...

A brand new way of being surveilled could be coming to a store near you—a facial recognition system designed to detect when retail workers have anomalous interactions with customers. About a month ago ...

Facial recognition has baffled scientists for generations. How can the human brain commit so many individual faces to memory with such ease? A study published this week in the journal Cell finds that ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Ubiquitous facial recognition is a serious threat to privacy. The idea that the photos we share are being ...