fingerprint
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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…
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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 Rather than the outdated…
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Apple Patent Could Bring TouchID To iPads And Macs
The next generation of MacBook laptops and iPad tablets could be opened with a scan of a fingerprint (or nipple-print, or toe-print, or sausage-print), as Apple’s TouchID patent looks ready to cover a wider range of the Cupertino firm’s products.
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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.