Google's Gemma 4 12B brings multimodal AI — audio, video, and text — to a standard 16GB laptop in 2026. No cloud required. Here's what it does and why it matters.

The wrongful arrest is just one of over a dozen in recent years linked to facial recognition technology.

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying ...

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta ...

The 'disappearing into the bushes like Homer Simpson' strategy is a bold choice.

Meta is facing fresh privacy questions after a report revealed that its smart glasses companion app contains dormant facial ...

Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” ...

Last week, Wired reported that Meta quietly pushed code for a yet-to-be-released face-recognition system supposedly designed ...

Meta has been quietly laying the groundwork for smart glasses that could identify people as wearers of the shades walk by, ...

Meta removed NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app after WIRED found biometric software on 50 million phones that Meta said "does not exist." ...

The company says it's not building a central face database.

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.