The natural pulse of a heart is turned into visual art.
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Forget fingerprints and eye scans, your next password could be your brain -- or your heart beat.
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The government-only phone will be encrypted and run on an Android platform.
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A Japanese bank just announced plans to install ATMs that scan customers' palms for identification.
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Apple’s voice-recognition technology, Siri, is easy to use, as long as you don’t have an accent.
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Taking advantage of iPhone's computing prowess, iBike Dash is a trainer, navigator and data analyzer all in one.
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The FBI approved an iPhone-adjacent scanner that can run fingerprints through the national database in ten seconds.
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A handheld device used to recognize possible criminals could also infringe on people's privacy.
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This shirt measures your breathing to determine your sleep patterns.
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Clothing embedded with micro-pumps releases bursts of scents for mood improvement.
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By mapping out the diversity of bat ears, researchers hope to inspire new sonar tech and flying robots.
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Genetically engineered bacteria detect toxins or disease and turn on the appropriate indicator colors.
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A new animal-recognition system capitalizes on zebra stripes.
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Infrared motion cameras show how kangaroos get up to hopping speed without breaking their bones.
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Recent advances have reduced the cost of biometric technologies and increased its practicality, making it more attractive to private and commercial industries.
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Not all employees are thrilled with having their private biometric data stored, and some question its legality.
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The shape of a person's ears are as unique as a fingerprint and could be used for identification and security.
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You are where you drink, according to a new study that finds some beverages leave a geographic imprint.
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Surprising new discoveries and stories of conservation, hope, and adventure abound in this wide angle, letting you see our wondrous watery planet like never before.
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Last Friday I posted a blog about the Web site, PleaseRobMe.com, which gives away information about social networkers who are everywhere but home in order to shine a light on the dangers of location-aware social networking. Today, I see this ...
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The first direct capture of a spectrum of light from a planet outside the solar system has been obtained, in what is a landmark discovery in the search for extra-terrestrial life.
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Scientists embed an electrode into a patient's brain and develop a computer system to read his thoughts.
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There's been a lot of chatter over the last few days about a YouTube video (below) demonstrating an HP web camera that can detect the face of a white woman but fails to see the face of a black man. ...
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Tracy Staedter chats with face recognition expert Rob Jenkins, department of psychology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Oh man. What's going on Tiger Woods? It seems like his world is crashing down around him. Literally. I know he's all about his privacy. Won't talk to the media about personal stuff. But now this voice mail, which he ...
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A patient is able to make complex movements with a robotic hand, using only his mind to control the device.
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Lightning is so familiar, but so totally strange. We explore the ways we don't know these bolts.
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Central Europe's prehistoric people would likely have been amused by today's hand-sized hamburgers and hot dogs, since archaeologists have just uncovered a 29,000 B.C. well-equipped kitchen where roasted gigantic mammoth was one of the last meals served.
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Astronauts give the Hubble Space Telescope some new gyroscopes and batteries.
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NASA's flagship space telescope finds CO2 in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
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A careless touch could be all police or insurance companies need to determine not only your identity, but also your past drug use, if you've fired a gun or handled explosives, even specific medical conditions.
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Speech analysis might be flavor of the month on TV, but one expert says popular crime shows may be giving the public an unrealistic idea of what the science can do.
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Polar bear experts are sending a shout-out to the public for help with a first-of-its-kind database.
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A group of patents, developed on your dime by a NASA researcher, sold at public auction last week in a new effort to parlay innovative technology into commercial goods and services.
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The rise in Arctic and Antarctic temperatures in recent decades can be attributed directly to human activities, according to a new study
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They say it's not how old you are, but how old you feel. With new age recognition software, it's actually how old you look.
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While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar regions, tropical plants and animals may face an even greater threat, say scientists who studied conditions in Costa Rica.
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Using a powerful radio telescope to peer into the early universe, astronomers have for the first time seen an early universe galaxy with a strong magnetic field.
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Is the rate of the universe's expansion detectable over a period as short as 10 years? A new method promises to tell.
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The okapi, so rare it was once believed to be a myth, has been photographed in the wild for the first time.
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