Fingerprints

Your finger may soon replace your credit card

Fingerprint tech isn't new but it's an extra layer of protection sets this technology apart. ...  

Soon, your walk can be your new password

New York: Scientists are advancing biometrics security systems a step further by developing 'biosoles' that can recognise you based upon your unique walk. Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University's Biometrics Research and Identity Automation Lab are developing new ways to enable security based on body's movements, which, unlike retinal scans and fingerprints, can't be taken from an individual, the New York Daily News reported. The new discipline called "pedo-biometrics" uses...  

Mumbai: Cops hunt for fingerprints at Laila's flat

Mumbai: Armed with a forensics team, Crime Branch officers visited Laila Khan and her deceased familys Oshiwara flat on Monday, in search of evidence against the prime accused Parvez Tak. Khans family stayed at the flat for 10 years. The forensics team, accompanied by Unit VIII officers, conducted relevant tests for more than five hours at the ground floor and the four bedrooms in flat number 104 of the Sunshine...  

China to issue passports with electronic chips

Beijing: China will start issuing a new type of passport with an electronic chip that will contain a record of cardholder's personal information. The new passports will look like the traditional ones but a chip containing information like the cardholder's name, his date of birth, photograph and finger prints will be installed in them, a statement by Ministry of Public Security said on Friday. Under preparation for the past three...  

Defective gene can strip you of fingerprints

Washington: Like DNA, fingerprints are unique to every individual. But what happens when your fingertips do not have those distinctive ridges? Though an exceptionally rare condition -- only four documented families are known to suffer from the disease worldwide, adermatoglyphia inspired a Tel Aviv professor to delve deeper into the causes of the condition and isolate the gene behind it. Adermatoglyphia is also known as "Immigration Delay Disease" because such...  

E-passports launched, President gets first copy

Australia innings: 14.5 overs: Australia 141 for 1 R Ashwin to bowl this over. Maxwell gets a two off the third. Now one is needed. Australia win by nine wicket. A crushing defeat for India. That's it from me. Will be back tomorrow with the England-New Zealand tie at 3 pm IST. Till then goodbye. 14th over: Australia 138 for 1 Yuvraj continues. And Watson launches him into the stands. ...