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  • Fingerprint Analysis Could Finally Get Scientific, Thanks To A New Tool

    Fingerprint Analysis Could Finally Get Scientific, Thanks To A New Tool

    There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about the court-martial at the Fort Huachuca military base in Arizona at the end of February. But when the analyst from the Department of Defence forensic laboratory presented a report on fingerprint evidence, it included an element that had never been used with fingerprint evidence in a courtroom in the…


  • Glowing Fingerprints Are The Latest In CSIRO’s Forensic Arsenal

    One CSIRO scientist who had his house broken into saw a potential for scientific development out of the crime scene that unfolded in his home. Seeing how much the police still relied on fingerprinting, he went on to develop a ground-breaking new crime scene identification technique to help collect criminals’ fingerprints. Rather than the outdated…


  • The iPhone 5S Home Button Ring Could Look Like HAL 2013

    The iPhone 5S Home Button Ring Could Look Like HAL 2013

    While it seems pretty certain that the next iPhone will come with a fingerprint scanner, what it will look like remains an open question. A “silver ring” around the home button (see below) is the prevailing theory; our friend Martin Hajek has taken a closer look at what that might mean in practice.