Facebook is acquiring facial recognition firm Face.com, for an estimated $60 million.



Facebook already uses Face.com's facial recognition technology to help it put a name to faces in photos uploaded to the social network. Now, with the acquisition of Face.com, the technology is coming in house.

So what does Facebook facial recognition actually do?

There are billions of photographs on Facebook's servers. As your Facebook friends upload their pictures, Facebook will try to determine if any of ...


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