Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition ...

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 ...

Well, there goes the tiniest privacy silver lining on that otherwise dark coronavirus cloud. A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that many commercially ...

When two people meet, they instantly size each other up, making snap judgments about everything from the other person’s age to their intelligence or trustworthiness based solely on the way they look.

Researchers have now taught an AI algorithm to model first impressions and accurately predict how people will be perceived based on a photograph of their face. When two people meet, they instantly ...