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Biometrics Research Group | February 19, 2020

The U.S. government must improve its internal AI expertise and capacity to properly leverage the transformative power of biometrics and other technologies, according to a report from experts at Stanford and New York University. The report is meant to guide future government decisions, but along the way reveals some details about the development of a major biometric program. The use of face biometrics instead of iris recognition for border checks by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was de...

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Resecurity | December 17, 2021

Resecurity®, a cybersecurity and intelligence company, today announced the unveiling of their next-generation cybersecurity platform at the 2021 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference in Pheonix, Arizona. For nearly 20 years, the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference has served as the premier information technology conference welcoming over 2,000 attendees and representing over 400 different government organizations. Government organizations ...

Kaspersky | March 02, 2020

Last week, Kaspersky’s Polys project unveiled the prototype of its blockchain-based Polys Voting Machine. The device will work alongside the Polys online election system. This is the same Kaspersky that produces antivirus software. In September 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered federal agencies to remove Kaspersky products from their computers. In 2017, Kaspersky launched Polys, the Ethereum based online voting system. The platform allows ballot verification and vote t...

The U.S Department of Energy | July 28, 2020

The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled its plans to develop a parallel national quantum network that is super-fast and unhackable and could be used by sensitive government departments and banks to send information, according to the Department of Energy. The blueprint of the network was revealed in an event at the University of Chicago on Thursday. The department detailed four research areas that need to be given priority for the technology to achieve completion and stated it could be fu...