Shenzen, China
Tencent
Tencent is an internet-based technology and cultural enterprise headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Founded in 1998, Tencent’s mission is to “improve the quality of life through Internet value-added services”. This will be done via the delivery of integrated internet solutions to billions of netizens through its “user oriented” business philosophy.
Tencent Biometrics News
Palm ID verifies in US for alcohol buys and in Beijing for subway rides
One, Amazon’s palm biometric payment service, has a new age-verification function. An adult will be able to buy alcohol by…
| May 23, 2023 | Android biometric safeguards fail to withstand brute-force attackA team of Chinese scientists has bullied its way past fingerprint authentication protections on smartphones, exposing significant vulnerabilities, reports TechXplore…. |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Palm biometric payments grow with launch on WeChat, Amazon One expansionTencent’s super-app WeChat has added a new “Palm Payment” applet to enable users to pay using palm biometrics, Tech Planet… |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Beijing bums out billions of Chinese game-playing kids: Restrictions not going awayA “misunderstanding” about gaming restrictions in China was righted this week. Somehow, people got the impression that the government was… |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Tencent low-light facial recognition to check night-time gaming among childrenTencent Games, one of China’s biggest gaming companies, says it has deployed a facial recognition platform dubbed ‘Midnight Patrol’ with… |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Chinese researchers take top honors in cartoon face recognition challengeA Chinese entertainment company last week announced the winners of its challenge to write biometric algorithm models that can detect… |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Face mask popularity prompts new biometric datasets for sale, FaceID work around in ChinaDatasets consisting of images of people wearing facemasks are being sold online for miniscule prices in China, according to Abacus,… |
| Nov 4, 2019 | Chinese researchers reveal method to bypass biometric fingerprint scanners in smartphonesChinese security researchers from X-Lab security at Tencent challenged fingerprint security in a presentation at the GeekPwn 2019 conference in… |
| Sep 25, 2019 | NIST sees drastic improvement in facial biometrics accuracy as market growsBiometric facial recognition technology has improved “spectacularly,” with error rates for the top products estimated by the biometrics testing project… |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Facial recognition giants unveil new technologies at World AI ConferenceFacial biometrics unicorn SenseTime is opening a new Chinese headquarters in Shanghai, the company announced at the World Artificial Intelligence… |
| Jul 26, 2019 | Biometric card certification, auto applications and AI issues top this week’s biometrics and digital ID newsSignificant progress was announced this week in several different areas of biometrics applications, and international issues related to identity and… |
| Jul 4, 2019 | Tencent and SenseTime executives join Malaysian sovereign wealth fund boardExecutives from Tencent Holdings and biometric facial recognition unicorn SenseTime have been appointed to the Board of Directors of Malaysian… |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Tencent develops image-aging technology for facial recognition of missing childrenPolice in China are planning to use artificial intelligence technology developed by Tencent to add years of aging to photos… |
| Nov 30, 2018 | Biometrics and conversational AI power China’s Tencent-backed online-only bankVirtual robots powered by facial recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing and other artificial intelligence technologies are providing VIP customer… |
| Oct 15, 2018 | Tencent executive suggests Europe focus on benefiting lives with AI, not global competitionA Tencent executive urged an audience at a conference in Europe to deploy artificial intelligence to improve people’s lives, regardless… |
| Apr 17, 2017 | Tencent AI research lab achieves record face recognition rate in MegaFace challengeTencent’s artificial intelligence research lab, YouTu Lab, has achieved a record-setting 83.29 percent recognition rate in the MegaFace challenge (Challenge1/FaceScrub… |
| Feb 18, 2016 | Qualcomm adds fingerprint authentication support for WeChat mobile payment serviceQualcomm has become the first company to support hardware-backed biometric fingerprint authentication capabilities for Tencent’s WeChat mobile payment service, enabled… |
| Dec 30, 2015 | Tencent to offer facial recognition technologies to external partners free of chargeIn an effort to improve collaboration with public and government agencies, TENCENT’S facial recognition research team plans to open its… |
