Facial Recognition Coming To Hotels, Making Check-In Easy But Creepier

Hotels are being retrofitted from top to bottom into “smart hotels” where everything is controlled by apps, AI and robots. Ostensibly, maids still have a job to make up rooms after a stay. Facial recognition is your ticket to VIP treatment. ⁃ TN EditorAlibaba has created the hotel of the future and it’s wild, wonderful, and just a little creepy. FlyZoo, which is reportedly a Chinese pun for “must stay,” is a 290-room ultra-modern boutique hotel in Hangzhou, C