Facial recognition was a late-blooming technology: It went through 40 years of floundering before it finally matured. At the 1970 Japan World Exposition, a primitive computer tried—mostly in vain—to ...

Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize faces, but could also have implications for ...

A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students’ viral video. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill covers the intersection of privacy and ...