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Facebook acquires facial image analysis startup FacioMetrics

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Nov

2016

Facebook has acquired a facial image analysis firm FacioMetrics as it tries to give users new features to add special effects to photos and videos. The technology developed by the startup also includes capabilities for face tracking and recognizing emotions, which could potentially open up other applications for Facebook. Read More

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Shoppers Up Their Online Security Game, Survey Says

11

Nov

2016

While they check SSL certificates and liability policies more often, many remain wary of biometric authentication, Computop reports. Almost three-quarters of consumers – 71% — said they check that an ecommerce site they shop on is protected via SSL and https, according to a new survey of over 1,900 consumers in the US and UK. […]

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Quantum computing and access control

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Sep

2016

The posited pattern matching capabilities of quantum computing may have a couple of different applications in access control. Biometrics would likely benefit from improved abilities to match and compare. At the moment we don’t actually compare, for example, the fingerprint originally registered with the fingerprint presented. Biometric matching must be done on the basis of […]

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