Subjectivity is problematic when evaluating fingerprints, and quality is in the eye of the examiner. But three computer programs used together can give fingerprint grading unprecedented consistency ...

When Howard County police used a statewide computer network to match fingerprints from a 2-year-old sexual assault case, they became pioneers of new crime-fighting technology in Maryland. Howard ...

The job applicant had been fingerprinted, but the results weren’t in by the time the board of education hired her to work in a school cafeteria. During her job interview, she had mentioned she once ...

Apple'siPhone 5Sis off to a running start with record-breaking sales, but it appears that the device's much-hyped security feature Touch ID has already been cracked. A German biometrics hacking group ...

For humans, background noise is generally just a minor irritant. But for quantum computers, which are very sensitive, it can be a death knell for computations. And because “noise” for a quantum ...

A fingerprint scanner is a small electronic device that guards your computer from intruders. You place your fingertip on the reader; it scans your fingerprint and compares it to the prints stored in ...

A team of computer scientists, led by researchers from Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics, have devised a way to lift the veil of anonymity protecting cybercriminals by turning ...

Thousands of cold cases could be solved thanks to an breakthrough in fingerprint analysis by artificial intelligence. A computer using artificial intelligence system has shattered the received wisdom ...

"People leave behind all kinds of fingerprints, and the job of a forensic examiner is then to look at a fingerprint and identify a person who could have left it," said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles ...

Subjectivity is problematic when evaluating fingerprints, and quality is in the eye of the examiner. But three computer programs used together can give fingerprint grading unprecedented consistency ...