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PhonePe rolls out biometric UPI payments, users can now pay with fingerprint or face IDPhonePe now allows fingerprint and facial recognition for UPI payments. This feature is for transactions up to Rs 5,000, offering a faster ...
How a BTech dropout floated fake passport and UIDAI portals to tamper with data of over 1,500 Aadhaar cardholders across 12 statesUttar Pradesh police busted a hi-tech identity fraud racket. The gang tampered with Aadhaar data of over 1,500 people across 12 states. Pol...
Can scamsters hack your bank account if they have your Aadhaar number?An Aadhaar number is linked with a host of financial services and an individual may fear that scamsters may hack their bank account, etc an...
The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices - a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacyAfghans who once supported the U.S. have been attempting to hide or destroy physical and digital evidence of their identities. Many Afghans...
Facial recognition, iris scans may be used for welfare scheme payoutsThe current mode of biometric authentication used for vetting credentials in the AePS system — fingerprint scanning — is not in line with d...
Biometrics can help identify careers: Manish Naidu, founder, BrainwondersWe have a biometric scanner and candidates take a fingerprint test. We take biometric scans (all fingers) and then a 24-page report comes o...
Biometrics will be the thumb rule in 2018Biometrics will come of age in 2018 with more smartphones being equipped with technologies like fingerprint, face recognition and iris scan...
Cyber criminals team up to attack their targets efficientlyIndia is also trying to push biometric authentication — primarily fingerprints and iris scans — for Aadhaar-based transactions.
- Indian-origin scientist creates 'real' 3D hands in lab
New York, Oct 21 (IANS) An Indian-American researcher and his team have created life-size 3D hand models, complete with all five fingerprin...
Banks like Kotak Mahindra, Axis Bank and others mulling iris-recognition technology for ATM transactionsQuite a sizeable number of blue-collar workers and farm labourers who use ATMs have bruises, abrasions or cuts on their fingers.
New Nexus 6 set to top predecessor with fancy fingerprint scannerWhile the inclusion of a fingerprint scanner is good news, the images - which were posted by renowned leaker @OnLeaks on Twitter - also sho...
How two tier II city entrepreneurs are popularising iris scanners for biometric identificationThe crucial trick for Indian companies will be to get the iris scanner's cost down to as close as possible to that of the fingerprint scann...
Apple acquired some patents that could help it build a buttonless iPhoneSome of the patents included other biometric security systems. One of them could allow you to open a door by scanning your fingerprint usin...
Centre to implement biometric attendance system soonTo avoid any glitch, the government is also installing a small fraction of iris-based scanners. Each such device would cost around Rs 3,500.
Samsung to add eye scanners in smartphonesSamsung will also extend fingerprint sensors beyond its flagships to cheaper phones
If Heartbleed spells the end of passwords, what should replace them?Bill Gates declared them ‘dead’ in 2004. But now seems to be the right time to kill them off.
- Soon, eye movements can be your new password
Oleg Komogortsev, a computer scientist at Texas State University-San Marco, is making use of the fact that no two people look at the world ...
- UIDAI: Banking on biometrics to give you a unique identity
Fingerprints & iris are key to UID project & e-governance in India. ET tracks biometric tech to find what makes it unique and challenges fa...
- UIDAI's new challenge: How technology will be used for transactions like opening bank accounts, paying wages
93.5% -- that’s the success the UIDAI claims in transaction pilots, at first go. Next step is trials in 50 districts and a figure near 100%.
- India Post's gadgets to streamline NREGA payment
India Post will provide gadgets such as biometric fingerprint scanners, magnetic strip readers and thermal printers to its 1,30,000 rural o...