News tagged with digital fingerprints

Your smartphone knows everything about you, and it tells tales

In the sexy but increasingly scary world of smartphone forensics, insiders have a name for all the personal information purposely or unknowingly stored inside that iPhone or Android or Blackberry in your pocket. They call ...

Technology / Other

created May 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Multimedia search without detours

Finding a particular song or video is often no easy matter. Manually assigned metadata may be incorrect, and the unpacking of compressed data can slow up the search. DIVAS, a multimedia search engine, uses digital fingerprints ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Video fingerprinting offers search solution

(PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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App scans faces of bar-goers to guess age, gender

(AP) -- A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.

Technology / Software

created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

TV executives crave viewers who watch 2 screens

Forget the small screen and the big screen. The hottest new thing in television is the "second screen" - the one on the tablet computer or cell phone that an increasing number of viewers keep an eye on while they're watching ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tiny crooners: Male house mice sing songs to impress the girls

Male house mice produce melodious songs to attract mates. Unfortunately for us, because the melodies are in the ultra-sonic range human ears cannot detect them. Through spectrographic analyses of the vocalizations of wild ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

IBM attacks the complexity of security with identity intelligence

IBM announced a new identity intelligence breakthrough designed in IBM labs to provide corporations with a far more sophisticated approach to managing the information employees can access. 

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

New NIST biometric data standard adds DNA, footmarks and enhanced fingerprint descriptions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a revised biometric standard in November, 2011, that vastly expands the type and amount of information that forensic scientists can share ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Putting a face -- and a fingerprint -- to a name

Bill Conner runs a defense company whose customers are threatened by new forms of global attack every day.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers transform iPhone into high-quality medical imaging device

In a feat of technology tweaking that would rival MacGyver, a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis has transformed everyday iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Buildings house secret servers that keep the Internet running

From the outside, the Gothic brick and limestone building a few blocks south of downtown almost looks abandoned.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10

Physicists map spiraling light to harness untapped data capacity

Physicists with the Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York have presented a new way to map spiraling light that could help harness untapped data channels in optical fibers. Increased ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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