Microsoft today announced several updates to its Project Oxford portfolio of machine learning tools, which are aimed at developers. Microsoft has begun a public beta for a new application programming ...

POWERED BY advances in artificial intelligence (AI), face-recognition systems are spreading like knotweed. Facebook, a social network, uses the technology to label people in uploaded photographs.

The US military is developing a portable face-recognition device capable of identifying individuals from a kilometre away. The Advanced Tactical Facial Recognition at a Distance Technology project is ...