Market research and other data suggest that the market for facial recognition technology has increased in the number and types of businesses that use it since a Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...

Constant identity assurance via behavioral signals or biometrics ensures continuous validation of identity instead of relying ...

Patient misidentification is a growing problem in the U.S., with dangerous and even fatal consequences. Traditional identification methods, such as using patient names and dates of birth, are prone to ...

It’s prime mushroom hunting time in much of the United States, but foragers need to have a keen eye or an expert opinion to avoid serious consequences. A recent mushroom poisoning case in ...

Patients with a neurologic injury who develop the belief that known people are imposters (Capgras syndrome) or that strangers are actually loved ones in disguise (Fregoli syndrome) may have a single ...

While city officials believed the snake, found along the Ten Mile River near Milk Street, was a venomous copperhead, MassWildlife said it is the harmless northern watersnake. Copperheads are often ...

Eyewitness identification can be one of the more powerful forms of evidence in trials, but it can also be one of the least accurate. WGBH's Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israel's military chief said early on Wednesday that ‘misidentification’ led to strikes that killed seven international aid ...

Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can identify differences in cancer cell lines based on microscopic images, a unique development towards ending misidentification of cells in ...