By Aara Ramesh A couple of months ago, members of an esports organization called FaZe Clan started promoting a new cryptocurrency called “Save the Kids,” which promised to “build a better world for kids” through donating some proceeds of the sales of...
By a Biometrica staffer Widely considered to be one of the least polarizing issues in politics, infrastructure has become the key priority of the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda. Currently, there are three bills being discussed in the U.S. Congress — two in the...
By Aara Ramesh On Monday, May 17, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released data about cryptocurrency investment scams, as reported by consumers in October 2020–March 2021. In that six-month period, the FTC received almost 7,000 complaints, amounting to a total of $80...
By Kadambari M. Wade On Oct. 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival from the 32nd Floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. One nondescript killer, a man who fit no known profile of a mass murderer,...
(Above: Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Gettysburg. © Georgesheldon | Dreamstime.com) In a rapidly evolving, technology-driven environment, where the IoT is a way of life, the incoming administration faces a number of new challenges, especially from a security perspective. Here...
In six short years, Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based unique identification project, has enrolled more than 1.07 billion people. This has allowed hundreds of millions that did not have access to benefits, access to the formal systems that provide those benefits. In a freewheeling...
[Picture above, credit © Outline205 | Dreamstime.com] By The Biometrica Blog Team Biometrica Systems, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is in the business of creating software and systems that link the physical to the digital with the intention of minimizing criminality, or events that...