How to Use biometrics in a Sentence

biometrics

noun
  • For some researchers, the future of biometrics lies in the ear.
    Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2010
  • The adoption of voice tech and biometrics will happen faster.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020
  • Often they were asked to gather the biometrics while still under fire.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The user authenticates using biometrics—in this case, the Touch ID on their Mac—and that's it.
    Max Eddy, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
  • The good news is stopping fraud doesn’t require biometrics.
    Albert Fox Cahn, Wired, 9 June 2021
  • This is more contrite than last week, when the IRS said a lack of funds and rampant identity theft left it no choice but to embrace biometrics.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Fliers can also use their biometrics at the gate, with no boarding pass or ID necessary.
    CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Apple has been moving towards biometrics for a while, with Face ID featuring in its high-range iPhones and tablets.
    Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • But with the dawning of biometrics and ePassports in the late 1990s, a traveler’s data are now stored in a microchip embedded in the booklet.
    Anne Quito, Quartz, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Bringing up this screen will also disable biometrics so that your passcode needs to be reentered to get into the phone.
    Wired, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The rules also call for such biometrics from those seeking, holding or sponsoring a green card.
    Detroit Free Press, 6 Oct. 2020
  • While the notion of using a person’s voice to verify their identity has been around for a while, CAI takes voice biometrics to the next level.
    Gaurav Tewari, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • Red is completely baffled by the notion that his one-of-a-kind safe, which could only be opened by Red and Liz's biometrics, has been broken into.
    Laura Sirikul, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • In Afghanistan in 2012, there was a geospatial intelligence gap as far as biometrics was concerned.
    Annie Jacobsen, Wired, 20 Jan. 2021
  • But some people did have to pay for a green card or work permit again — which costs up to $1,000 in total fees when including the price of traveling to Salt Lake City for biometrics.
    Zoi Walker, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Customers provide personal biodata, and biometrics at a bank branch or through an agent to a BVN.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Nanavati has 26 years of experience in biometrics and has seen many start-ups come and go with similar pitches.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The interior's big reach is the idea of the car as mood ring: the designers propose using biometrics to monitor your feelings and vital signs.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 1 June 2022
  • It’s both sturdy and elegant, with advanced biometrics for health and wellness.
    Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, biometrics assume that a person’s body is unchanging, says Cade.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Since the onset of the pandemic, biometrics have proliferated in hubs across the country as a faster—and touchless—option at each stage of the air travel journey.
    Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Apple isn’t about to ditch its best biometrics authentication system for the sake of design.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Apr. 2022
  • On Thursday, Ms Patel announced that from Tuesday people will be able to apply online for a visa and will no longer have to go to a processing centre to give their biometrics.
    Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And perhaps integration with the Apple Watch: the car might pull over if biometrics indicated the driver was dozing off.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
  • So at some airports, biometrics like iris scanners and facial recognition cameras are replacing the need for passports or ID cards.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2020
  • Thanks to biometrics on new smartphones—including fingerprint readers and face ID technology—all one needs is to tap one's phone to make payments.
    Samir Patil, Fortune, 25 June 2020
  • Your voice fingerprint is your genuine voice, with all of its unique characteristics (think: voice biometrics).
    Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Even still, the metaverse is driving biometrics research at Mastercard.
    Jon Markman, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Ambient technology will be sensitive to our movement, gaze, posture, body language, heat biometrics, and the nuances in our tone of voice, Cobb said.
    CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Your journal entries are end-to-end encrypted, automatically backed up, and secured with a passcode or biometrics too.
    Matt Jancer, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022

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