Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is trying to close the gap between humans and computers in facial recognition as the company says it has developed a technology that recognizes whether two different images are ...

Uploading dozens of photos and tagging each one on Facebook can be tedious, and it appears the social network knows this. It recently created an algorithm that identifies faces 'as accurately as a ...

Soon enough, Facebook may be able to recognize the faces of your friends, family and co-workers just as precisely as you can. The social media giant is further developing its facial verification ...

Facebook’s ‘Deepface’ photo-matching software can now ‘recognize’ pairs of human faces with an accuracy just a fraction of a percentage point behind human beings - a huge leap forward in the ...

Britain’s The Independent newspaper reports the social network’s deep learning algorithms (computer programs that can learn to recognise patterns from large amounts of data) can now say when two ...

Almost two years ago, Facebook bought Face.com, an Israeli startup that specialized in face-recognition software. Given the instant backlash of headlines containing the word “creepy,” it’s no surprise ...

How many photos of you are on Facebook? The social network says roughly 400 million new images are added every day - and it's got a revolutionary software system to keep track of them. It's called, ...

06:53, Tue, Feb 10, 2015 Updated: 09:36, Tue, Feb 17, 2015 Facebook is getting a lot smarter and a little scarier. The world's most popular social network has begun to roll out its latest feature and ...

Facebook's long been interested in facial recognition, as the photo tag-suggestion feature that didn't go down too well in Europe shows. The Zuck's social network also gobbled up a face-recognition ...