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Worldline presents biometric facial recognition payment solution at NRF 2020

Worldline has developed in partnership with OneVisage, winners of Worldline’s e-Payments Challenge, a biometric facial recognition payment solution which will…

 

NY state Assembly Member wants moratorium on biometric technology in grade schools

In the upcoming legislative session, New York state Assembly Member Monica Wallace wants to focus all 2020 efforts on a…

 

Biometric scanners track police officers at work in the Philippines, Canada

Police officers in Manila will from now on be monitored with a biometric fingerprint system for attendance to prevent repeated…

 

Deepfake technology to manipulate videos found in TikTok, Douyin apps

ByteDance and TikTok have quietly created Face Swap, a feature that leverages deepfake technology to let users manipulate videos by…

 

Half of Brits OK with police using DNA supplied for ancestry analysis for crime investigations

More than half of British adults (55%) believe DNA databases collected by private companies to analyze ancestry should be used…

 

Biometrics research notes: surveillance and security drive 3D sensors, image and facial recognition markets

Biometric facial recognition generated $4.51 billion in 2018, and will grow at a 12.5 percent CAGR to reach a market…

 

Typing biometrics gets a boost as Gradient Ventures leads $7M funding round for TypingDNA

TypingDNA has announced a $7 million Series A funding round led by Google’s AI-focused venture fund Gradient Ventures. Prior investors,…

 

Yitu wins Shanghai government contract and considers IPO on city’s new exchange

Yitu Technology has reached a deal with municipal authorities in Shanghai as part of a campaign to increase artificial intelligence…

 

New trials and rollouts of biometric facial recognition to prevent underage gambling

Gambling company Tabcorp recently completed an eight-week trial facial analysis for age estimation in three Melbourne locations to identify when…

 

Kim Humborstad steps down from Zwipe board of directors

Zwipe founder and deputy chairman of the board of directors, Kim Humborstad, has resigned from the board. The Norwegian biometrics…

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