Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that Meta was developing software for its smart glasses to identify people, ...

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. Code ...

An investigative report reveals that Meta licensed face recognition from Rank One, a Pentagon contractor, and built a system ...

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...

When police arrested Robert Dillon in 2023 for allegedly trying to "lure a child" away from a McDonald's in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, he told them he was more than 300 miles away at the time of the ...

Despite improvements in facial recognition software, police across the country are continuing to make wrongful arrests from the technology as lawmakers lag behind on setting safeguards. The American ...

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Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the ...

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. The most recent version of Meta ...

Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away from where a crime was committed Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A Florida man is suing several law ...

A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used ...

One of the first smartphones, the iPhone, was launched as not just a multimedia device but one that could browse the internet anytime and anywhere. Fast forward to today, and smartphones have come a ...