Google’s “Project Toscana” wants to change biometrics by making it possible for Pixel phones and Chromebooks to unlock with their faces like an iPhone. This hardware upgrade, which probably uses ...

Call it “facial envy.” It’s the feeling Android smartphone users get when they see Apple iPhone owners unlock their phones just by looking at them. iPhones use a facial recognition system that’s more ...

What Happened: You know how Face Unlock on some phones can be… “eh,” and easily fooled? Well, a company called Metalenz is about to change that, and it’s just partnered with a microchip giant (UMC) to ...

If Project Toscana is real and ready for primetime, it likely won’t debut in the budget-friendly 10a, which arrives March 5. Instead, it could signal that Google is once again trying to build the ...

The company that sells Apple a critical component for Face ID expects to have more customers this year. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac iPhone’s multi-year lead in facial recognition could finally be ...