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
Tencent considers bringing palm biometric payment to Thailand, Alipay pushes the PL1
Chinese tech giant Tencent is considering bringing its palm biometrics scanning to Thailand in what would be a significant expansion…
| Jan 8, 2025 | Facial recognition, digital ID firms land on DOD’s list of Chinese military companiesThe U.S. Department of Defense always marks the start of a new year by updating its list of Chinese companies… |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Innovations in deepfake detection can’t come fast enoughFrom new studies of voice deepfakes to developing innovative ways to tell a fake face from the reflection in the… |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Passkeys strong in China, but WeChat support is external only for nowWeChat has announced passkey support for its iOS app, bringing passwordless access to its users – but, for now, only… |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Global payment networks are reading palms as the future in retailPalm biometrics scans are joining taps with smartphones and smartwatches and pay-by-face systems as an increasingly popular option for making… |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Tencent Cloud launches palm vein biometrics for contactless paymentsDuring the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Cloud unveiled a palm verification system that utilizes infrared cameras to capture… |
| Apr 18, 2024 | iBeta biometric PAD evaluations grow in global prominenceCompliance with biometric presentation attack detection standards has become table stakes for numerous applications of face biometrics in particular, and… |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Retail biometrics to improve security, convenience, privacy showcased at NRFBiometrics continue to make their way into the retail space. A partnership between Keyo and Mashgin is giving shoppers a… |
| May 23, 2023 | Palm ID verifies in US for alcohol buys and in Beijing for subway ridesOne, 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… |
