Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

When Anna Kuznetsova saw an ad offering access to Moscow's face recognition cameras, all she had to do was pay 16,000 roubles ($200) and send a photo of the person she wanted spying on.

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For two decades, researchers Himanshu Brahmbhatt and Jennifer MacDiarmid have been working on a breakthrough that could ...

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Archaeologists working at the ancient fortress-city of Argisztihinili in Armenia have made a surprising discovery - a one-meter-tall stone idol carved with haunting human features. Found as part of a ...

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...

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Some dogs just have that special something—an expression, a quirk, or a personality that feels almost human. This little Rescue Dog, with his one-of-a-kind face, is exactly that. In a video that’ll ...

A union between human and machine? Not on this Ohio Republican’s watch. A bill introduced last month by Buckeye state representative Thaddeus Claggett, from Licking County, would block AI systems from ...

When Missouri resident Lani got back to the store’s parking lot with her bag of items, she turned to her left and saw something she wasn’t expecting—the "most human"-looking dog she had ever seen. In ...