ORLEANS POLICE CATCH FUGITIVES, STOP CRIME TRACK AND TERROR SUSPECTS IN REAL TIME. BUT TODAY, THAT ALERT SYSTEM IS SILENT TO NOPD. CASSIE SCHERM INVESTIGATES WHY IT WAS PAUSED AND WHAT THE CITY MAY BE ...

Facial recognition is a common feature for unlocking smartphones and gaming systems, among other uses. But the technology currently relies upon bulky projectors and lenses, hindering its broader ...

Bryan Lagarde, the architect of the Project NOLA crime camera network, says New Orleans can keep its hands off his facial recognition system. The shopkeepers, schools and residents who signed up to ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly turned facial recognition into a frontline tool, letting agents move from a snapshot to a knock on the door in minutes instead of days. What began as ...

A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill covers the intersection of privacy and ...

Never mind that recent project by two Harvard students showing how face-recognition glasses are a huge invasion of privacy. The glasses aren’t where danger lies! You start a conversation with someone, ...

Your face is being watched across New Orleans, but city police aren't the ones doing the watching, and NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has a problem with that. Kirkpatrick on Monday offered her ...

The AI revolution is reshaping the world, impacting every industry. AI being rapidly put to use has spurred surging demand for critical components. In particular, GPU being in constant shortage has ...

In a move that human rights advocates warn carries potential risks for civil rights, Russia has begun expanding its facial-recognition payment system for subways to six cities outside of Moscow. Kazan ...

Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to ...