Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

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Some people are so good with faces that there’s a name for them – super-recognisers. And a new study using eye-tracking technology has given us some insights into how they do it. Although most of us ...

Are you one of those people who are always mistaking others for someone else? Or, worse yet, do you have trouble recognizing faces altogether? You are certainly not alone. In fact, the average person ...

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We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...

I once carefully studied a photo of Princess Diana and became convinced she was Lena Dunham. The image of Lady Di’s face was tightly cropped, obscuring her hair; nonetheless, I’ve since been gently ...

Good with faces? New research suggests that your ability might be more akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle than taking a photograph. Psychologists at UNSW Sydney and University of Wollongong have ...