Police are using live facial recognition for the first time in Greater Manchester as part of efforts to crack down on criminal behaviour. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has received two Live Facial ...

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...

Facial recognition technology works by mapping someone’s unique features and comparing them against a database of stored faces. [iStockphoto] Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or ...

Amazon’s home security company Ring will introduce facial recognition technology to its doorbells and video cameras, sparking debate over privacy and consent. The new feature, called “Familiar Faces,” ...

Microsoft’s new OneDrive face recognition feature, which uses AI to group photos, is causing controversy because it is enabled by default (opt-out) and comes with a puzzling restriction. Users are ...

India will allow users to approve UPI payments using facial recognition and fingerprints from tomorrow, 8 October 2025, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Currently, ...

Malaysia will soon track all foreign visitors through fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition under a new high-tech digital identity system aimed at curbing illegal entries and corruption. The ...

Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Mistral AI, and the University of Cambridge launch the Open ASR Leaderboard, a public benchmark for ASR ...

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The Education Ministry is encouraging the use of face masks in all schools to curb the spread of infectious diseases such as influenza-like illness, not only among students but also teachers and ...

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the parent organisation of UPI, launched a host of new facilities on October 7, 2025, aimed at enhancing the user experience. As part of this rollout ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new artificial intelligence feature in OneDrive that uses AI facial recognition. This serves to create “face groupings,” helping users quickly sort photos of friends and ...