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Articles By Chris Burt

Chris Burt is managing editor and industry analyst at Biometric Update. He has also written nonfiction about information technology, dramatic arts, sports culture, and fantasy basketball, as well as fiction about a doomed astronaut. He lives in Toronto. You can follow him on Twitter @AFakeChrisBurt.

 

Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Aktif Bank partner to assess vein biometric authentication platform for Turkish market

Mitsubishi will assess the potential of a biometric authentication platform in Turkey in a feasibility study, along with a European…

 

BioCatch raises $20M and launches Client Innovation Board to keep behavioral biometrics ahead of fraud

BioCatch has announced a $20 million Series C funding round, with four major global banks investing in the behavioral biometrics provider….

 

Heart biometrics launched to Samsung wearables, military tests illness prediction with Garmin and Oura

Samsung wearables in the U.S. are gaining a biometric function, and the country’s military is testing wearables from Garmin and…

 

Allevate facial recognition update launched to UK G-Cloud for forensic, live surveillance applications

Allevate has launched an update of its biometric facial recognition solution to availability on the UK’s G-Cloud 12 to provide forensic…

 

US lawmakers extend police face biometrics contract in Detroit, moratorium advances in Vermont

A facial biometrics software maintenance contract for Detroit Police has been extended with a 6 to 3 vote by City…

 

Government investments in digital identity and biometrics programs progress around the world

Progress and plans for national digital identity systems and biometric e-government solutions have been announced around the world, including a…

 

Paravision biometric facial recognition software makes further accuracy gains with update

The fourth generation of Paravision’s biometric facial recognition has been released with a 36 percent reduction in error rate from…

 

Next Biometrics to supply sensors for 6,000 biometric payment terminals for African national bank

Next Biometrics has received a follow-on order of 6,000 fingerprint sensors from partner Newland Payment Technology to integrate them with payment…

 

Fingerprint Cards explains UX importance, roots of biometrics vision, plans new ASIC team in Taiwan

Nearly two out of every three consumers say a low rejection rate and ergonomics are key priorities for adopting biometric…

 

Neurotechnology’s new MegaMatcher performs 1.2B biometric matches in one second without GPU

The latest version of Neurotechnology’s multi-biometric MegaMatcher portfolio of solutions and SDKs has been released with what the company calls…

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