When a grizzly bear attacked a group of fourth- and fifth-graders in western Canada in late November 2025, it sparked more than a rescue effort for the 11 people injured—four with severe injuries.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly turned facial recognition into a frontline tool, letting agents move from a snapshot to a knock on the door in minutes instead of days. What began as ...

Employees at a neighbourhood committee in China have resorted to printing out images of their colleagues’ faces and using them as masks to circumvent facial recognition clocking-in systems, shocking ...

But during President Trump’s second term, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been handed a powerful new ...

Your doorbell may soon greet your visitors by name… whether you want it to or not. Amazon’s Ring is rolling out a facial recognition feature called Familiar Faces. And while it promises helpful alerts ...

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Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is on the verge of full federal recognition after the Senate on Dec. 17 approved a $900 billion defense policy bill, titled the National Defense Authorization Act.

A police force is to deploy facial recognition vans in the run-up to Christmas. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is one of the latest forces to use live facial recognition (LFR) to detect ...

Rival efforts from Netflix and Paramount could upend the media industry. Paramount launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery this week, just days after Netflix struck a deal to acquire the ...

Chrisean Rock shared a painful moment with fans after posting a video of herself undergoing laser treatment to remove the prominent face tattoo she previously dedicated to Blueface, breaking down in ...