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 ...

Late last year, San Francisco face-recognition startup Everalbum won a $2 million contract with the Air Force to provide “AI-driven access control.” Monday, another arm of the US government dealt the ...

Face masks are already known to stop the spread of coronavirus. Apparently, they can also make it much harder for facial-recognition software to identify you, too. This is the key finding of a new ...

Facial-recognition algorithms from Los Angeles startup TrueFace are good enough that the US Air Force uses them to speed security checks at base entrances. But CEO Shaun Moore says he’s facing a new ...

New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy. Video by Mark Thiessen and Rebecca Hale, National ...

A new government study found that wearing face masks makes it harder for facial recognition algorithms to recognize people. The typical error rate for most facial ...

Facial recognition is becoming more accurate, but some systems exhibit racial bias and some uses of the technology are controversial Can Big Brother identify your face from street-level CCTV ...

A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology confirmed what other research has previously shown: Many facial recognition algorithms perform better on white people than on people ...