Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said that the OIFR system, powered by NEC Neoface software, will be piloted by 100 Metropolitan ...

Facial recognition is a common feature for unlocking smartphones and gaming systems, among other uses. But the technology currently relies upon bulky projectors and lenses, hindering its broader ...

The new technology will allow officers to check the details of any individuals stopped The Metropolitan Police will trial ...

Like the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD), the sheriff's office is considering acquiring facial recognition applications from the company Biometrica, but civil liberties advocates are raising ...

ORLANDO -- Microsoft Ignite 2017 -- On September 12, Apple introduced the iPhone X with a host of new features including facial recognition as a biometric authentication technology. The Internet ...

Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and activists.

Long the domain of sci-fi and James Bond movies, facial recognition is finally entering the mainstream. Tools like Apple’s FaceID and Microsoft’s Windows Hello have brought facial recognition to ...

Until recently, arresting an immigrant suspected of being in the country illegally took time. Immigration agents needed to run the suspect’s various forms of ID through different systems, and if the ...

Pattern-recognition algorithms developed for biometric identification are now analysing internal engine components, allowing ...