How Aratek is helping to make the world a little safer Terrorism has become the scourge of the 21st century, striking fear in many parts of the world. While some countries are at higher risks of terror attacks, not one can claim to be entirely safe from this threat. As a result, a great multitude have been forced to lead their lives under constant threat, not knowing when and where the next Big One would strike. Fortunately, governments have begun to fight back. Recognizing that porous borders allow terrorists to slip in and out of countries undetected, authorities have tapped […]

The advent of mobile telephony has ushered in an era of unprecedented social and economic growth across the globe. Game-changers such as online banking, eCommerce, and social media owe their very existence to mobile telephony. Yet for all the innumerable benefits of telecommunications, one facet of it continues to plague authorities around the world – mobile phones remain to be the easiest and deadliest way for terrorists to detonate explosives remotely. In a bid to curb this malicious use of telecommunications, a number of countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia have started requiring their citizens to register […]

It’s difficult to imagine human civilization advancing as it did without the institution of banking. The convenience, security, and cheap access to credit that banks offer have powered the world’s economic engine and oiled the march of society into modernity. Yet what’s even more difficult to imagine is that some 3.5 billion people across the world are still shut out of the benefits of banking. Most of such individuals belong to low-income brackets in developing markets, although some developed countries also grapple with the problem of a large number of their citizens unable to access financial services of banks. Not […]

Time Magazine released a Trump-Putin face mashup cover, which has prompted a heated discussion. As a biometric technology provider, we are more likely to explore the facial attributes in this image. Trump or Putin, who does this magazine cover look more alike? Our face recognition algorithm – Aratek TrustFACE, which has accomplished a near-perfect accuracy of 99.72% on well-respected LFW (Labeled Faces in the Wild) database, was used to analyze the facial attributes between Trumputin cover and its two original owners. After faces comparison, Aratek AI Laboratory found there’s 84.45% similarity between the magazine cover and Putin, Trump only got […]