Forgetting a face does feel like a small social failure. Meeting someone again and realizing their name escapes you is one thing, but not recognizing their face at all feels worse, as if you’ve erased ...

Humans have a remarkable ability to recognize faces despite variations in appearance. Regardless of aging, changes in weight or facial hair, or even cosmetic surgery, we can usually—but not ...

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 ...

Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders, threatening to normalize a uniquely powerful surveillance technology that has already been used for ...