Times are getting tight for Amazon’s Alexa and Echo voice biometrics lines
Will voice recognition become an afterthought at Amazon? Business Insider has published a lengthy piece outlining how Amazon is cutting…
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AI might help you give face scrapers the deformed finger
Born as weird abstraction, AI imagery is finding its way to consumer usefulness. Two algorithms demonstrate that while AI is…
US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points
A privacy advocate’s database counting the United States government bodies that surveil citizens’ biometric identifiers reportedly now has 9,850 data…
Outsources may take more of biometric security costs and complexity
A large majority of U.S.-based IT executives at smaller firms are increasingly working with biometrics, according to a vendor-funded survey,…
A big name enters the battle against deepfake threat
Intel says its new product, FakeCatcher, detects 96 percent of deepfakes. Executives say theirs is the first detector that works…
ID.me’s travails are a problem for the biometrics industry
ID.me’s repeated self-congratulations about the intercepting billions in attempted fraud against U.S. state and federal governments do not appear to…
Seed and angel funders invest in Mexican face biometrics anti-fraud vendor
A Mexican biometric fraud prevention startup says it has closed a seed round of funding valued at $4.1 million. The…
Liking private placements more than other debt, Idex Biometrics sells 150M shares
Executives at biometrics and authentication vendor Idex has signed a two-tranche private placement raising a total $15 million by selling…
Authentication is the cloud marring metaverse’s future. Who’s addressing it?
Business consultants can be quick to point out that “metaverse” cannot be spelled without the letters t, e, a and…
New design puts face biometrics securely behind Android phone’s display
A three-dimension sensor maker says it has marshalled a pair of technologies to put biometric facial authentication completely behind the…
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