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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Many facial recognition companies have ...

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 ...

The OFIQ software library is intended to support large-scale biometrics programs with information about the usefulness of photos for biometric comparison.