Hitachi today announced the development of highly-accurate finger vein authentication technology using the camera commonly integrated in the standard smartphone. This technology will enable the use of biometric authentication ...
Engineering
Oct 26, 2016
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed new kinds of encryption methods for improving the privacy protection of consumers to enable safer, more reliable and easier-to-use user authentication than current systems ...
Security
Sep 30, 2016
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In a multinational collaboration, researchers from the Universities of Luxembourg, Ljubljana and Vienna have developed a new method to produce unique reflecting patterns that can be applied on valuable objects. As these patterns ...
General Physics
Jun 10, 2016
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Online retail colossus Amazon is seeking a US patent on using selfies—instead of passwords—for shopping when using smartphones.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 15, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Researchers have demonstrated that transparent ink containing gold, silver, and magnetic nanoparticles can be easily screen-printed onto various types of paper, with the nanoparticles being so small that they ...
Two-factor authentication is a computer security measure used by major online service providers to protect the identify of users in the event of a password loss. The process is familiar: When a password is forgotten, the ...
Security
Feb 3, 2016
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To better protect the Institute's data – including employee data – from future cyber risks, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) will begin deploying two-factor authentication to early adopters across campus in ...
Security
Feb 3, 2016
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Every time a toddler accidentally shoots a friend or family member, a teen kills himself via gunshot or a shooter perpetrates an act of mass violence, public discussion circles back to "smart gun" technology. The concept ...
Other
Jan 11, 2016
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has conducted a study about user attitudes to different personal identification methods. The most popular identification methods were internet banking access codes and passwords. The ...
Security
Dec 10, 2015
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Scientists have discovered a way to authenticate or identify any object by generating an unbreakable ID based on atoms.
Quantum Physics
Nov 10, 2015
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