Will ‘Apple Pay Cash’ Take Advantage of iPhone Facial Recognition?
Apple Pay’s forthcoming peer-to-peer payment system will require users to scan an ID card in order to set it up, suggest newly discovered lines of code in the…
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Amazon’s Latest Alexa SDK Helps Bring Voice Interaction To New Devices
Amazon is trying to help developers bring its Alexa voice interaction technology into more devices with a new offering called AVS Device SDK. It’s a software…
BRIEF: What’s Next for iPhone Biometrics?
Apple is the key pioneer behind the mobile biometrics revolution, which it launched with the introduction of its Touch ID system in 2013. Now, with rival…
Online Companies Need to Move Beyond Mere ‘Feel-Good’ Security Measures: BioCatch
Trying to verify an online user’s identity with SSO and the like “is a feel-good measure” that does little to stop serious fraudsters. That’s the assertion of…
Dell Continues to Push Windows Hello Biometric Authentication with New Devices
“…a number of companies and products have embraced Windows Hello, and the technology continues to grow more sophisticated, with a new Microsoft keyboard…
StoneLock Appoints Jim Trani As Chief Technology Officer
Biometrics solutions manufacturer StoneLock announced today the appointment of Jim Trani in the role of Chief Technology Officer. Trani is a high profile…
Breaking Down The Mobile Iris Scanning Trend
With its chief rival widely recognized as the key pioneer behind mobile fingerprint scanning, Samsung sought to assert itself with a different modality when it…
Facebook’s Aloha Device To Feature Facial Recognition
Facebook is getting ready to make a big push into consumer hardware with plans to launch a new video chat device, an Amazon Echo rival, and potentially…
Video Purportedly Shows Rear-Mounted Touch ID on iPhone 8
This year’s big new iPhone will feature a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, suggests a leaked video purportedly showing the device in quality testing. The video…
BRIEF: Airport Facial Recognition Takes Off Around the World
While government authorities have been exploring biometric border screening for years, facial recognition is clearly the ascendant traveler processing solution…