Samsung Electronics is scrambling to deal with a potentially devastating security breach. The hacking and extortion group Lapsus$ is claiming credit for the incident, and has already leaked nearly 190GB […]

Innovatrics has upgraded its fingerprint algorithm to improve its performance when matching the fingerprints of children. The updated algorithm is six times more accurate than its predecessor when applied to […]

Biometric identification and object recognition specialist Neurotechnology has announced an update to its MegaMatcher ABIS turnkey biometric solution that includes a number of user experience improvements. The update comes after […]

The results from the fall of 2020 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s Biometric Technology Rally are being reported and for the second year in a […]

Paravision’s facial recognition algorithm is continuing to perform well in recent rounds of NIST testing. The company’s error rate went down an additional 25-30 percent in the latest 1:N test, […]

Corsight AI is celebrating its strong performance in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 2020 Biometric Technology Rally. The latest Rally was carried out by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate […]

There’s a new online service that is designed to help people become aware of whether or not their Flickr photos have been used to train any facial recognition algorithms. As […]

A new facial recognition start-up has made a statement with an extremely strong performance in the latest round of NIST testing. YooniK was founded in late 2019, and can now […]

Stanford researcher Michal Kosinski has published a study that suggests that facial recognition can be used to predict someone’s political affiliation. In the study, Kosinski developed a facial recognition algorithm […]

“…success in engineering facial recognition technology that can identify subjects in the light and in the dark would represent a considerable upgrade in biometric intelligence capabilities for the military.” The […]