Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...

LED face masks use light therapy to stimulate skin cell activity for various beauty goals. Medical evidence supports their use for hair loss, acne, and wound healing. The American Academy of ...

Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, Wired ...

Meta has been quietly embedding facial recognition code in its smart glasses companion app since January 2026. The system, called NameTag, uses three AI models to identify people and is already on ...

Red light therapy has long been used to reduce inflammation and improve skin texture, which is why LED devices are having a moment—you can reap some of the benefits without booking a professional ...

Pluto Security Inc. today disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hugging Face Inc.’s Transformers library that allowed attacker-controlled artificial intelligence models to run ...

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. The most recent version of Meta ...

Code for a facial recognition feature that can run on Meta smart glasses is buried in the company's Meta AI app, according to a new report from Wired. While not currently enabled, accessible to ...

Your Meta AI app was secretly carrying facial recognition code designed to identify strangers through smart glasses. WIRED’s investigation found that Meta had embedded substantial portions of an ...

A view of a cellphone with which Colombia's presidential candidate Paloma Valencia, of the Centro Democratico party, takes a selfie during a campaign rally in Villavicencio, Meta department, Colombia ...