Tag: Face

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked to step out of the crowd. He put down his 3-year-old son, whom he was carrying, and sat in front of a military jeep. Half an hour later, Mr. Abu Toha […]

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Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century

In 2015, while working as an undergraduate researcher at the North Carolina Zoo, Laura Lewis became friends with a male chimpanzee named Kendall. Whenever she visited the chimps, Kendall would gently take her hands and inspect her fingernails. Then she disappeared for the summer to study baboons in Africa. When she returned to North Carolina, […]

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