London police continue facial recognition testing with Stratford deployment
London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have deployed facial recognition technology in the Stratford area of East London to identify suspects…
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Sciometrics spins out fingerprint selfie technology as independent subsidiary
Sciometrics has spun out its fingerprint software for smartphone cameras as an independent subsidiary under the name “Scio,” with the…
Newly rebranded OneSpan partners with Nok Nok Labs for bank app authentication solution
Digital identity security company OneSpan has partnered with Nok Nok Labs to provide banks and financial institutions with fraud mitigation…
Microsoft retrains facial recognition AI to better recognize gender across skin tones
Microsoft has improved the capability of its facial recognition technology to recognize the gender of people with darker skin tones,…
Ipsidy facial biometrics to secure Skypatrol fleet management system in Latin America
Ipsidy and fleet management software provider Skypatrol have formed a partnership to offer an integrated cost-control and expense management tool…
Sensory’s combined face and voice biometrics now integrated in two dozen banking apps
Sensory has announced that its combined facial and voice recognition authentication solution TrulySecure has been integrated in two dozen banking…
Facebook develops AI fix for closed eye photos
Facebook has developed a method of altering photographs to change closed eyes to open ones, with people in testing either…
Samsung smartphones approved for use by U.S. Defense Department
Smartphones from Samsung have been added to the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Approved Products List (APL), after completing the…
New 3D imaging technologies for smartphone facial recognition unveiled
Vivo and Lucid have made separate announcements of a pair of new 3D imaging technologies at Mobile World Congress (MWC)…
Interpol develops massive international voice biometrics database
Interpol has completed its Speaker Identification Integrated Project (SiiP), a voice biometric database for use by 192 law enforcement agencies…
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