Onfido acquires Eyn, adds acoustic-based liveness detection
Onfido has recently completed the acquisition of digital identity verification company Eyn to integrate its ultrasound biometric presentation attack detection…
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World’s first standalone universal ID document liveness detector launched by ID R&D
ID R&D launches what it says is the world’s first standalone document liveness detector compatible with any identity document and which…
India tests mobile voting, arranges Aadhaar hackathon – both spell controversy
India is testing biometric, blockchain-based mobile phone voting for the first time in the hope of increasing turnout and reducing…
Phonexia showcases upgrades to voice biometrics, speech recognition
Phonexia’s R&D teams have unveiled the company’s efforts in the field of voice biometrics and speech analysis over the last…
CSIR offers contactless fingerprint biometric software to partners in South Africa
South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is bringing a contactless fingerprint biometric software enabling template creation and…
B-Secur brings ECG biometrics to STMicroelectronics partnership for wearables development
Companies developing wearable devices which use a person’s unique heartbeat biometrics for encrypted health data collection or authentication will be…
New voices shame US government, tech leaders for muffing AI lead
Has China, which one generation ago was laughed off as a manufacturing threat to the West, already beat the United…
DIACC partners up to advance Canadian digital ID
A pair of tech organizations in Canada have agreed to work together to advance innovation for digital identity management, security,…
Centralized biometric access control center for military patented by I3
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a new patent to Ideal Innovations Inc. (I3)’s CEO Bob Kocher…
Shiny skin ruining face biometric data? DHS researchers develop fix
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have developed a way to correct for how much lights reflects off…
