Like most (if not all) Hackaday readers, I like to know how the technology I use works. I’m always amazed, for example, how many otherwise smart people have no idea how the cellphone network works ...

A research group from University at Albany has discovered a new technique that identifies the sex of fingerprints. Or rather, it identifies the sex of an individual based on their fingerprints. The ...

Introduction Do you know that you leave fingerprints on everything you touch? If your hands are very dirty, this is obvious because you can actually see them. But even if your hands seem clean, your ...

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