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Defense jury expert Jo-Ellan Dimitrious, left, confers with Kyle Rittenhouse and defense attorneys Natalie Wisco, Corey Chirafisi and Mark Richards during Rittenhouse’s trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha on Nov. 2, 2021. Rittenhouse is accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest over police brutality in Kenosha last year. (Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA press/AP)

Las Vegas Metro Police investigators take measurements at the scene of a fatal crash on South Rainbow Boulevard between Tropicana Avenue and Flamingo Road on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III is facing a driving under the influence charge after the fiery crash early Tuesday left a woman dead and Ruggs and his female passenger injured, authorities said. (Steve Marcus/AP)

“This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta. “More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized, and its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.”

With Tuesday’s change, Chicago’s travel advisory lands at 41 states and one territory under Chicago’s travel advisory. In total, the areas not subject to the recommended COVID-19 mitigation measures for unvaccinated travelers are: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands. Arkansas might get off the list next week.