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The Chinese voice recognition specialist iFlyTek is going against the grain with its sales strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has announced that it plans to open 1,000 physical retail outlets before the end of the year. The dramatic expansion will bring the company’s footprint to a total of around 3,000 locations. iFlyTek currently […]
Facial recognition has helped a Chinese couple find their son who was kidnapped 30 years ago. Mao Yin had been abducted in Xian while walking home with his father, Mao Zhenjing. Yin’s mother Li Jingzhi spent the next three decades searching for her son, and even helped 29 other families reunite with missing children. However, […]
China is expanding the scope of its biometric network in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Guangzhou Public Transportation Group is now using biometric tablets to check the temperature (and the identity) of every passenger who boards one of the city’s buses. The tablets themselves are being installed next to the driver’s seat on the […]
The Home Office of the United Kingdom has announced that the U.K. is joining China’s FaceR2VM project, which aims to develop facial recognition technology to be able to identify people even when their face is partially hidden by a mask. The Home Office has said that it is “one of several partners” of the project, […]
“Hanvon says its biometric technology can identify everyone in a crowd of up to 30 people within one second.” As the impact of COVID-19 continues to have ripple effects in China, a domestic AI specialist has launched a new biometric facial recognition system tailored to identify people even when they’re wearing face masks. As Reuters […]
“In China, facial recognition cameras, coupled with the state’s broader surveillance capabilities, allow authorities to immediately access citizen’s travel histories, potentially enhancing their ability to track and control the virus’s spread.” Chinese authorities are now turning their massive apparatus of biometric surveillance to the containment of coronavirus, suggests a new report from Al Jazeera. Details […]
The Military Manpower Administration arm of South Korea’s military has announced a partnership with cybersecurity company Roansecure that will see them adopt a new blockchain-based biometric identification and authentication system. Raonsecure — which currently serves 30 million people in South Korea and projects to grow that number to 700 million in the Asia-Pacific region — […]
Government officials in Suzhou have issued a formal apology for an act of public shaming that was carried out using the city’s surveillance cameras. The cameras are equipped with facial recognition technology, which means that the city can use them to identify individual residents. The city was forced to apologize after flagrantly abusing that […]
Facial recognition software has been installed in 30 self-service ticket machines by Beijing Railway in anticipation of the increase in travellers for the Spring Festival. With more than 8.34 million passengers expected to use the railway to make it to festival events — which began last week — officials are looking to facial recognition to […]
Fingerprint Cards has achieved an important milestone in its ongoing efforts to pave the way for global adoption of biometric payment card technology. The company’s T-Shape fingerprint sensor module and its FPC-BEP biometric software platform have both passed accuracy and security tests conducted by China’s Bank Card Test Center, or BCTC. BCTC is an independent […]
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