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Articles By Jim Nash

Jim Nash is a business journalist. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Robotics Business Review and other publications. You can find Jim on LinkedIn.

 

Telling your phone you want the rating on this restaurant

A trio of researchers have proposed using a smartphone user’s head as a cursor to help with often spotty voice…

 

Company prepares behavioral analysis of China’s consumers

Behavioral analysis firm Toluna Inc. has launched a permission-based data collection service in China to analyze in real time the…

 

AISpeech $58M funding round highlights China’s continuing interest in speech recognition

Speech recognition player AISpeech Company Ltd. this month received RMB 410 million (US$58 million) in a series E round, led…

 

Biometric face-scanning helmets reading the temperatures of people in crowds in China

Some police and epidemic-control teams in China are wearing biometric head gear and sensors that allow them to spot fevered…

 

Apple created Siri. Why did it need a tiny Irish biometric vox player?

It is rare that one can know with some certainty why Apple Inc. buys a company. That is not the…

 

Intel takes the lead on DARPA effort to end machine-learning spoofing

The U.S. Department of Defense has recruited Intel Corp. and Georgia Tech to lead an effort to prevent criminals from…

 

Michigan says liquor retailers can use biometrics to card customers

The state of Michigan has updated its liquor laws to allow retailers to use biometrics to confirm a customer’s age….

 

Fingerprint biometrics for mobile devices perform badly in tests

Do you have something of immense value to lose from your phone, tablet, laptop or even from a locker protected…

 

What pandemic? China biometrics startup clinches $141M fund

It is a precarious moment for the waylaid Chinese economy, but a Shenzhen biometrics startup has just closed a round…

 

Four models for digitally onboarding bank customers with varying roles for biometrics

An analysis piece in the trade publication Regulation Asia looks at all of the so-called “know your customer” policies in…

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