Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

WIRED reported that Meta's app for Ray-Ban smart glasses contained dormant facial recognition code, raising transparency and privacy concerns. The investigation described "NameTag," designed to detect ...

Learn why Meta quietly deleted facial recognition technology from its smart glasses app after privacy advocates raised questions about a hidden feature capable of identifying people through biometric ...

Meta stripped NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app one day after WIRED exposed it on 50 million phones. Meta says no decision has been made. Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased ...

Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, Wired ...

Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses — and top Meta executives are fuming. The report made clear that NameTag isn ...

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. The most recent version of Meta ...

It’s no secret Meta has been exploring facial recognition technology for its platforms, like Facebook. It’s even cost the company millions in settlements. But a new Wired report details how Meta ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech in its smart glasses, sparking concern from privacy watchdogs, according to a report. The tech, which Meta hasn’t activated yet, came in ...

Meta’s AI app now includes facial recognition code for its smart glasses, despite the company’s previous assurances that it had not decided whether to introduce the technology. An analysis of the ...

Meta has quietly added facial recognition tech for its smart glasses to its Meta AI app. A Wired investigation discovered that the code has been added to Meta's AI app over "multiple updates this year ...

According to a report from Wired, Meta has been quietly installing facial recognition in its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses for the last few months. Internally called "NameTag", the ...