Amazon considers palm biometrics for touchless in-store payments, tests terminal transactions with Visa
Amazon is working on linking users’ hands to credit card information to enable palm biometric payments at checkout terminals, reports…
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Apple patent applications describe face biometrics-enabled presence detection, more gestures for Apple Pencil
For more than ten years, Apple has been working on presence detection technology that would be used to turn on…
Amazon files patent for touchless scanning system, Apple, Mad Systems patent biometric hailing/alert system, facial recognition locator
Amazon Go or Whole Foods shoppers may in the future be identified by their hands, according to a patent published…
Apple granted patent, under-display Touch ID biometrics in the cards for iPhone 12?
Apple has been granted a patent for under-display Touch ID to read fingerprints optically, which means we may be looking…
Microsoft patent filing shows new 3D facial biometric technology with multi-spectral camera array
Microsoft has developed a 3D facial recognition technology that could be integrated into smartphones and other mobile devices, based on…
Apple patent application describes Face ID biometrics with different angles, partial faces, poor lighting
A patent application from Apple for technology that would enable Face ID biometric matching with partial face images and in…
Apple granted patent for biometric 3D Face ID system with eye tracking
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple 59 new patents including one of a biometric 3D Face ID…
Biometrics for online authentication and digital ID industry growth most read this week
The growth of the digital identity industry, public uncertainty about it, and the near-term future of digital ID adoption provide…
i2Chain licenses biometric multi-factor authentication innovation from University of Memphis
The University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) has developed and patented a sophisticated, adaptive biometric multi-factor authentication system that leverages…
New patent hints at Face ID for future Apple Watch models
Face ID may be coming to Apple Watch, as the company has been granted a patent for a method of…
