fingerprint

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The system's biometric fingerprint process could not accommodate someone like him, as it could not capture his scarred thumbprint or the prints of the other two scarred fingers.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Trials of biometric fingerprint and facial recognition will begin within six months, he said, with a full roll-out expected before the end of this parliament.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“It will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media” as feeds start to “fill up with synthetic everything,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote in December.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

They measured platinum, iridium, and other trace elements to build a chemical fingerprint.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

The only way to match a fingerprint was to get lucky—and since there were almost a million entries in Bertillon’s files, a detective would have to get really lucky.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day