Yubico Launches YubiKey 4C Nano Authentication Key
Yubico has followed through on a promise made at the start of the year with its release of a new miniaturized version of its YubiKey 4C authentication key.…
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IDEX Sampling Smart Card Sensors With New Clients in Asia Pacific
IDEX is sampling its smart card sensors with new clients, the company says. In a statement, IDEX did not name the clients in question, saying only that they…
BRIEF: How Samsung Competes With Apple as a Biometric Pioneer
There has been a lot of hype around Apple’s new Face ID facial recognition system, with discussions inevitably referring to the company’s pioneering of mobile…
Venture Capital Pours In For Onfido
London-based Onfido has raised $30 million in a Series C funding round led by Crane Venture Partners, the company has announced. The funding round also saw…
New Infrared LED Module Combines Iris and Facial Recognition Capabilities
Taiwan-based Lextar Electronics Group has announced an infrared LED module supporting both iris and face biometrics. Called the PR88, the module is only 1.4mm…
SensibleVision 3D Facial Recognition System Works in Bright Sunlight
As excitement continues to percolate over Apple’s new facial recognition system for the iPhone X, a third party developer is highlighting the face scanning…
OT-Morpho Is Now IDEMIA
“In a statement announcing the rebrand, IDEMIA explained that the new name was chosen ‘in reference to powerful terms: Identity, Idea and the Latin word idem,’…
Government Applications Month: The Roundup
All through September FindBiometrics placed a featured focus on government applications in biometrics. For the last four weeks we brought you live event…
Children and Twins Bring Out Face ID’s Shortcomings
There’s a lot of hype over Face ID, the facial recognition system of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone X, but some of its shortcomings are already becoming clear. One…
Could Touch ID Still Make Its Sub-Display Debut?
“The method could point to how Apple might overcome the difficulties it reportedly experienced in trying to integrate its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system…