Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

HyperVerge has been unveiled at an event in New Delhi as one of two winners in a national competition under India’s AI ...

With Tucson out of the picture for the Project Blue data-center complex, Marana has emerged as a possible prospect for a replacement location. Not only is the town of 62,000 people Pima County’s ...

Biometrics are a core part of any smartphone nowadays, and Google Pixel is one of the few brands that balances both fingerprint and face unlock properly. But it seems Google wants to take things a ...

Google is developing a new advanced face unlock system called “Project Toscana” for Pixel phones and Chromebooks. Toscana is designed to perform better in challenging lighting conditions than Google’s ...

NJ Transit and Amtrack are warning their rail customers to gird their loins for a potential full month of misery as a yearslong infrastructure project reaches a critical juncture — while promising the ...

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...

An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is considering launching the feature ‘during a dynamic political environment.’ An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is ...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...

Meta has backed away from highly controversial facial recognition tech in its products and services before, but seemingly not so far that it isn’t willing to have another crack at it. A new report ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

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