Fingerprint, a device intelligence API, helps developers build security solutions using information from hardware accessing a website. The primary goal is to help prevent fraud. Today, the Chicago-bas
The time to stop the slide by regulating and eliminating unnecessary biometric data collection, particularly when for-profit corporations are involved, is now.
Consumption of all types of kids-focused digital media has soared with a large portion of the world’s children home from school right now. At all times of day, children are playing games, watching s
With large majorities of all children (70% in the U.S. and U.K.) staying home from school during the COVID-19 crisis, use of digital media properties popular with kids has soared. Screen time among ki
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that 3D printers have fingerprints, essentially slight differences in design that can be used to identify prints. This means investigators can exami
Under the nom de guerre of Redrock Biometrics, two former Leap Motion execs are waging war on the world's legions of identification cards, pin numbers, passwords, and voice identification technologies
Offering to gate the smorgasbord of personal content that lives on a mobile device behind a face biometric inevitably raises lots of security questions, even as always on face-scanning tech being hous
You probably remember flipping through Highlights magazine as a child, perhaps while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office. But now, this longest-running children’s magazine of 69 ye
Kids' app maker Fingerprint, which was backed by Dreamworks last summer with a $10.9 million round of funding, has put some portion of that cash to use with the acquisition of two children's mobile ed
Apple isn’t the only company using biometrics to authenticate payments and purchases – Apple Pay partner MasterCard wants to make fingerprint scanning something even people without an iOS devi
Kids using iPads and smartphones is a common sight these days, and that trend has allowed a number of companies focused on this very young demographic to grow and expand. Case in point: San Francisco-
Remember those persistent rumors of a fingerprint sensor that would be baked into the iPhone 5S? Well, it's not a rumor any longer -- Apple has just confirmed that the iPhone 5S will feature a 500ppi
Fresh on the heels of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/09/kids-educational-app-companies-fingerprint-mindshapes-team-up-to-launch-a-collection-of-interactive-appisodes/">its partnership with UK
San Francisco-based kids' app platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fingerprintplay.com/">Fingerprint</a> is teaming up with UK educational app maker <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mindsha
Back in July, Reuters reported that Apple was looking to acquire mobile security solutions company AuthenTec for around $356 million. Part of the company's business involved providing embedded mobile
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.validityinc.com/index.php">Validity Sensors</a>, the San Jose-based maker of fingerprint scanning sensors and authentication technology, announced today that it has
San Francisco-based <a href="http://www.fingerprintplay.com/">Fingerprint Digital</a>, a startup building educational apps for kids as well as a parent-child communication system for iOS apps, is dou
San Francisco-based <a href="http://www.fingerprintplay.com">Fingerprint Digital</a>, a startup building educational apps for kids, is blowing up. The company released its first apps into iTunes on De
If you've heard it once, you've heard it thousands of times: Children are the future. Both literally and figuratively, that's a hard one to debate. Now then, if adults are adopting digital technologie