Your iPhone will display a circular frame on the screen with instructions to position your face within it. It's just like ...

We're no strangers to face identification technology. iPhone users have been creating face profiles for Apple for years, and now biometric face scans help us complete all kinds of tasks, like ...

A new study has found that face masks, so prevalent during the pandemic, do present a challenge for face identification but that it is only slightly harder to recognize a face behind a mask than a ...

As facial recognition technologies have evolved from fledgling projects into powerful software platforms, researchers and civil liberties advocates have been issuing warnings about the potential for ...

Public sharing of research data is being widely promoted. Medical image files contain “metadata” such as the name of the participant, the date of the scan, and the identification number. Such data are ...

A new iOS security feature can make it easier for iPhone customers to unlock their phones when they're wearing face masks. On January 27th, some Apple users were surprised by an unexpected feature in ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a ...