Having pioneered smartphone fingerprint scanning and facial recognition, Apple may turn next to palm reading as an additional biometric modality, suggests a patent filed by the company earlier this year. As AppleInsider reports, the patent was filed in January, and details how sensors under the display of an iPhone or iPad could be used to…
Amazon is reportedly experimenting with a hand-based biometric payments scheme that could be introduced at select Whole Foods locations as early as next year. The news comes courtesy of the New York Post, which cites sources working at Amazon’s New York City offices. According to those sources, the new solution (which has been codenamed Orville)…
Polizei Niedersachsen, the state police of Lower Saxony in Germany, is getting an upgrade to its biometric booking system, care of Crossmatch and its Germany-base partner Hecosys. The police organization has been using Crossmatch technology for quite some time, and according to Hecosys Managing Director Benjamin Helfmann the organization “has had great success with Crossmatch…