Acuant reports most profitable quarter in company history
Acuant has achieved the most profitable quarter in company history with a 300 percent year-over-year increase in total sales growth…
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Synaptics executives see growth ahead as company reports fiscal 2018 earnings
Synaptics’ net revenue for fiscal 2018 fell 5 percent from 2017 to $1.63 billion, as its Q4 revenue dropped 9…
Google develops method of identifying individuals with web search and facial recognition
Google received a patent in July for a system which searches images from social networks and applies facial recognition to…
Axon CEO says facial recognition not accurate enough for police body cameras
Facial recognition is not yet accurate enough to be added to body cameras, Axon CEO Rick Smith said in a…
West Virginia to offer Voatz biometric voting app statewide for overseas military
Military service personnel from West Virginia serving overseas will be able to vote in the November U.S. midterm elections with…
Amazon facial recognition technology accelerates trafficking investigations
Child exploitation prevention organization Thorn has sped up its investigation time by 65 percent using Amazon’s Rekognition and other AWS…
BBVA extends mobile biometric enrollment to all potential customers
Spanish bank BBVA has added the capability to enroll self-employed people as new business customers through a remote digital process…
San Jose to become first all-biometric airport on U.S. West Coast for international travel
Mineta San Jose International Airport will become the first airport on the West Coast of the U.S. to identify every…
ImageWare reports 31 percent 1H revenue increase
ImageWare Systems reported second quarter revenue for 2018 of $1.9 million, 78 percent higher than the same quarter in 2017,…
U.S. officials weigh introducing biometric exit data rules for partners
Federal officials are considering writing protections for the biometric data of travelers into the rules of the biometric exit program,…
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