Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

Some people are so good with faces that there’s a name for them – super-recognisers. And a new study using eye-tracking technology has given us some insights into how they do it. Although most of us ...

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Are you one of those people who are always mistaking others for someone else? Or, worse yet, do you have trouble recognizing faces altogether? You are certainly not alone. In fact, the average person ...

People who lack a mind’s eye, a condition known as aphantasia, tend to struggle with recognizing faces. A recent study ...

A stranger’s face flickers past you on a crowded street, and something in you clicks. Years later, you could still pick that same face out of a grainy photo. For a small group of people known as super ...

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Psychologists at UNSW Sydney and University of Wollongong have challenged the prevailing view that people with exceptional face recognition abilities rely on processing faces holistically. Instead, ...

Good with faces? New research suggests that your ability might be more akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle than taking a photograph. Psychologists at UNSW Sydney and University of Wollongong have ...

Do you remember the face of any stranger who passed by you today? You probably can’t, but super-recognizers can. These rare individuals can identify unfamiliar faces after a brief glimpse. And by ...