WHOOP health biometrics draw $100 million Series E financing round
Biometric fitness tracker company WHOOP announced a $100 million Series E financing round led by IVP, Yahoo! Sports reports. The…
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UK’s Dorset Police deploy new fingerprint biometrics to speed up suspect identification
Police forces in Dorset, U.K., have started using new fingerprint biometric technologies to speed up the suspect identification process, the…
BioConnect and Ping Identity biometrics solutions updates unveiled
BioConnect has announced version 5.0 of its Enterprise biometrics platform for unified access control. The upgrade brings biometric unity across…
IDmission biometrics pass iBeta testing for Level 2 presentation attack detection standards
IDmission’s facial recognition technology has been declared Level 2 ISO/IEC 30107-3 Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) compliant by iBeta Quality Assurance,…
Onfido and Trueface work to remove bias from facial recognition technologies
Onfido and Trueface held two separate webinars at the International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) on Thursday, focusing on reducing bias…
Substantial improvements to biometric spoof attack detection possible in short term
Stergios Papadakis from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory delivered a presentation during the International Face Performance Conference (IFPC)…
EPIC files lawsuit to force release of ICE facial recognition documents
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on…
Voice biometrics service EVA available on AWS, NYSS to sell Alcatraz touchless access control
Auraya has announced its cloud-based, contact center voice biometrics solution EVA, which is underpinned by Amazon Connect, is now available…
Idiap receives accreditation to grant biometrics certificates for Android
Idiap’s Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing has received accreditation to conduct the evaluation required by Android for biometric…
HYPR launches Velocity Partner Program to encourage spread of passwordless authentication
HYPR has announced the Velocity Partner Program, a new channel-based network aimed at the adoption of passwordless, decentralized authentication solutions….
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