As any construction-site foreman will tell you, fingerprint-recognition hardware installed at these locations oftentimes fails to provide a correct identification of the worker. This happens because their fingers, especially their thumbs, are usually damaged and bruised from all the intense labor. Scientists at the U... |
26 October 2009
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Fingerprints have been one of authorities' preferred methods of creating indexes to include all sorts of bad guys, although that trend went downhill when innocent people started being fingerprinted at airports. Until now, this has been done by dipping people's fingers in ink, and then pressing them against ... |
30 September 2009
04:09 GMT |
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The reason why people have ridges on their fingers – the formations that create fingerprints when they touch objects – has been a mystery to scientists for a long time, but one of their favored hypotheses was that they improved our grip when we tried to grab things. Now, a new study utterly disproves this... |
12 June 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Apparently, in Florida, stores are now required to get the prints of all those who are interested in picking up a used videogame. Such a measure sends the idea that gamers are criminals and buying and selling DVDs is basically the same as getting a gun. The measure seems to be coming from the legislature of the state... |
3 June 2009
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US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the... |
24 April 2009
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Fear of terrorist attacks has prompted a redefining of the concepts of security and safety throughout the world, and especially in Europe and the United States, the largest potential targets. After 2001, more and more retinal scanners and fingerprint-recognition devices have been installed in sensitive areas such as ... |
6 February 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Striving to keep up with an ever-diversifying market, Swiss Army knife manufacturer Victorinox featured at its CES 2009 stand a new and innovative piece of technology, the Presentation Pro knife, which can be used to direct slide shows, and incorporates a USB flash that can hold up as much as 32 GB of memory, as well... |
12 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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The UK citizens who had been in the past accused of crimes they hadn't committed asked for the British government to remove their fingerprints and DNA records from the files stored in the national DNA Database. Years later, they found that their records were still on-line, so they sought justice in court, where ... |
5 December 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Shopping cards are soon to be pushed into oblivion, as the researchers at Barclaycard, a division of Barclays, announce the possibility to replace them with "contactless payment" tech. They claim to have invested a seven-digit sum for the development of this technology, which is said to allow shoppers to use com... |
10 September 2008
10:29 GMT |
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