The Week’s Most-Read Biometrics News: March 16-22
This week’s most-read articles on FindBiometrics cover a range of topics, including liveness detection, security in the Internet of Things, and even a bit of…
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Facial Recognition Startup Founded by Apple Engineer Raises $6M in Funding Round
“Alcatraz AI has indicated that it will use its new capital to further refine its computer vision technology…” Alcatraz AI, a biometric AI startup founded by a…
NuData Receives SC Media Award 30 Years in the Making
SC Media pulled out all of the stops for its 30th Anniversary Awards celebration, adding a slew of special categories to its annual SC Media Awards. NuData…
Unisys: Filipinos Trust Banks, but Remain Wary of Behavioral Biometrics
Unisys has released the results of its 2019 Asia Pacific Banking study, finding that customers in the Philippines place the most trust in banks as an…
New Round of Fingerprint Matching Helps to Exonerate Wrongly Convicted Man After 36 Years
Fingerprint recognition technology has helped to exonerate a man wrongly convicted of rape and assault, leading to his freedom after 36 years in prison. The…
Blink Identity CEO to Discuss Trust in the Marketplace at KNOW 2019
Blink Identity‘s Co-Founder and CEO, Mary Haskett, will speak at next week’s KNOW Conference, the company has announced. It’s a good fit for the…
BIO-key to Post Q4, FY2018 Results On April 1st
BIO-key has set a date for the publication of its Q4 and 2018 year-end results: They will be disclosed on Monday, April 1st, after market close. The report’s…
Megvii Could Be Planning July IPO
The Chinese tech startup Megvii is rumored to be planning an initial public offering for later in the year. The South China Morning Post reports that the IPO…
Amazon Explains How Computer Vision Tech Can De-identify Medical Images
Thanks to improvements in digital imaging and data storage, medical archives are much larger than they’ve ever been. Researchers now have access to millions of…
New Forensic Tech Makes it Easier to Pull Fingerprints from Metal Surfaces
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and the University of Derby have developed a new technique for reading fingerprints left on metal surfaces like…