Biometric Update

Face biometrics image quality assessment tool maturing as eu-LISA plans integration

The OFIQ software library is intended to support large-scale biometrics programs with information about the usefulness of ...

At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID

Facial recognition at security and immigration checkpoints and gates could ease airport hassles, even as the technology ...

Macaque facial gestures are more than just a reflex, study finds

The team thinks this means that the cingulate cortex manages the social purpose and context of the facial gesture, which is ...

ICE shunned body cams in Minnesota. So why are agents using phone cameras?

Federal immigration agents are using phone cameras for facial recognition software, to document their actions and to produce ...

I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner - here's what Cursor and Replit taught me

I tried four vibe-coding tools, including Cursor and Replit, with no coding background. Here's what worked (and what didn't).
eLife

A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a ...