Entries Tagged "Singapore"
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News from the Fingerprint Biometrics World
A Singapore cancer patient was held for four hours by immigration officials in the United States when they could not detect his fingerprints—which had apparently disappeared because of a drug he was taking.
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The drug, capecitabine, is commonly used to treat cancers in the head and neck, breast, stomach and colorectum.
One side-effect is chronic inflammation of the palms or soles of the feet and the skin can peel, bleed and develop ulcers or blisters—or what is known as hand-foot syndrome.
“This can give rise to eradication of fingerprints with time,” explained Tan, senior consultant in the medical oncology department at Singapore’s National Cancer Center.
Quantum Computation Research Center in Singapore
Singapore is setting up a $98M research center for quantum computation.
Great news, but what in the world does this quote mean?
Professor Artur Ekert, Director, Research Centre of Excellence, said: “At the moment, you can buy quantum cryptography systems, you can use it in some simple applications but somehow you have to trust companies that sell it to you or you have to test the equipment.
“The kind of quantum cryptography we develop here is probably the most sophisticated that is not available in any other countries so we have some ideas to make it so secure that you don’t even have to trust equipment that you could buy from a vendor.”
Singapore's Vast Data Mining Program
Details are here. What’s troubling to me is that even though Congress pulled funding for the program, it was developed elsewhere and now may be sold back to the U.S.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.