Dead man鈥檚 fingers
As requests go, it鈥檚 an odd one. Last month, police asked biometric researcher Anil Jain at Michigan State University to 3D-print copies of a dead man鈥檚 fingertips so they could access his fingerprint-locked phone. The police have scans of the man鈥檚 digits from a previous arrest. The replicas have been coated with metallic particles to make them work on a capacitive scanner, which relies on our skin鈥檚 conductivity.
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The boost to GDP that could result from a central bank issuing a digital currency like bitcoin, according to the Bank of England
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Cybercrime on the rise
Bank fraud, virus attacks, hacked email accounts. There were 5.8 million cybercrime incidents in England and Wales last year, affecting about one in 10 people, says the UK鈥檚 Office for National Statistics. Chris Greany of the City of London Police endorsed a call for a national campaign to make people more internet savvy, on a par with the UK鈥檚 seat-belt and drink-drive campaigns of the 1980s and 90s.