Trusted Face smart unlock removed from Android

The not-so-widely-used trusted face smart unlock feature has officially been removed from Android. Android Police reported that the feature has been completely removed from devices running Android 10 or below. The feature was added to Android in 2014 and existed...

Nest Hub Max to Feature Face Matching, According to Google Assistant

The Nest Hub Max isn’t expected to hit store shelves until September 9th, but Google Assistant is already listing Face Match in its settings menu. The facial recognition feature will allow the Nest Hub Max to recognize the faces of different people when they enter the...

Facebook disables tag-suggestions tool amid privacy concerns

It just got a bit harder for your friends to tag you in embarrassing photos. Social media giant Facebook is getting rid of its familiar tag-suggestions feature, which used facial recognition to identify photos of you and suggest that your friends tag you in them, and...

Facebook Will Tell You How to Turn Off Facial Recognition

Free social media services are built from convenient features that become ominous only once you start to think about them, with one of the eeriest examples being Facebook’s ability to identify your face in a photo anyone uploads. By recognizing faces and suggesting...

Amazon tests Whole Foods payment system that uses hands as ID

The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain in the coming months, The Post has learned. Employees...