A healthcare firm and a biometric company have teamed up to test iris-recognition software for applications involving patient identification in the healthcare field, according to a release. IrisGuard, an iris-recognition solutions company, and Patientory, a cybersecurity healthcare data solution firm, are collaborating to combine iris...
The Supreme Court in Illinois ruled on Friday (Jan. 25) that a teen can sue Six Flags amusement park over violation of an Illinois privacy law, in a case that could have repercussions for tech giants like Google and Facebook. The Chicago Tribune reported that...
With concerns mounting over the use of facial recognition technology to monitor people and intrude on privacy, Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said he supports regulation of the technology. CNBC, citing comments Nadella made during the World Economic Forum in Davos, reported Nadella said that...
Aiming to get drivers in car rentals more quickly, Hertz announced Tuesday (December 11) that it is teaming up with CLEAR to create Hertz Fast Lane powered by CLEAR, a new service that relies on biometrics to speed up the car rental process. In a...
Banks in China have embraced micro-expressions technology as they try to combat fraud earlier by studying the facial movements of customers. The Financial Times, citing the Chinese banks, reported they are concerned that some of their would-be customers are lying about why they are taking...
How on time a traveler is for a flight seems to be consistently correlated with how long it will take them to go from the airport’s front door to the boarding area before the doors close. From pre-screening through screening, to that final run through the...
Tap to pay. Dip to pay. Smile to pay. Forget reinventing the payments wheel — it seems many innovators are looking to replace it. As bigger names jump on board with their own biometrics-powered payment methods, the novelty factor seems poised to erode into, simply, the...
Visa announced late last week that merchants can now tap into its suite of sensory branding via a pilot program. In a press release, the payments company said it is working with U.S. point-of-sale terminal manufacturers – such as Equinox Payments, Ingenico Group, Poynt and...
Sensory is a brand whose name may not be immediately recognizable, but whose tech surely is. “There are any number of devices that, for example, if you’ve said, ‘Hello Alexa,’ you’re actually talking to Sensory technology,” Sensory’s chairman and CEO, Todd Mozer, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation,...
