Man finds abducted son after 22 years of tireless searching

A Chinese man was finally reunited with his son in late June after he was abducted from their neighborhood 22 years ago. How did it happen: ...

Chinese automaker’s facial recognition requires drivers to kneel down in front of bumper to activate

A Chinese electric vehicle company was forced to remove its cars’ facial recognition feature after its implementation was heavily ridiculed ...

Man stole more than $23,000 from his ex-girlfriend by using her phone’s facial recognition

A 28-year-old man, identified only as Huang, manipulated the technology on his ex-girlfriend’s phone to steal 150,000 yuan (nearly $23...

Artist Creates N95 Face Masks With Your Face Printed on Them

An artist’s idea to print the bottom half of the face on surgical masks so wearers can still use Face ID has become an online hit. San Franc...

China Installs Their First Face Scanner to Pay for the Subway in Zhengzhou

The Zhengzhou Metro has become the first subway station in China to install facial recognition scanners at all of its stations as another pa...

China is Now Mapping Faces Using Uyghur Blood Samples

Under the hood, China is reportedly hard at work developing a technology to reconstruct faces based on DNA samples, with help allegedly comi...

Chinese Citizens Will Now Have to Scan Their Faces To Use the Internet

China has taken its internet censorship one step further by releasing a new regulation requiring its citizens to pass a facial recognition t...

Woman on TikTok Buys Drink From Vending Machine Using Just Her Face

Chinese technology expert Matthew Brennan recently shared a TikTok video of a woman buying from a vending machine using only her face. In th...

Misogynist Creates Program That Outs Women in Porn and Links to Their Social Media

An unidentified Weibo user has alarmed the internet after announcing that he had created a program cross-referencing women’s faces on adult ...

Beijing Plans to Use Facial Recognition to Ban Uncivilized Tourists

Unruly tourists in Beijing may soon find themselves unable to access some of the city’s attractions thanks to facial recognition technology....

Roommates Steal $1,800 From Man By Unlocking His Phone Using Facial Recognition

A Chinese man had his savings stolen by sneaky thieves who used the facial recognition technology on his phone to unlock it while he was sle...

‘Jaywalker’ Caught By China’s Facial Recognition AI Turns Out to Be a Bus Ad

China doesn’t shy away publicly shaming citizens who commit traffic violations using its facial recognition artificial intelligence (AI) sof...

China’s ‘Harvard’ Installs Facial Recognition System to Track People Who Come on Campus

China’s controversial facial recognition system is now being used in some schools around the country, with Beijing’s top university doing it...