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Oslo, Norway – 17 March 2021 - IDEX Biometrics ASA, a leading provider of advanced fingerprint identification and authentication solutions, have been selected, to be the strategic technology partner, by Goldpac Group Ltd (Goldpac), on their Digital Currency/Electronic Payment (DC/EP) hardware-based digital wallet (hardware wallet) initiative. IDEX has also received a new order for fingerprint sensors to support this initiative.
DC/EP is the name given to the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) of China and is the digital version of the yuan, China s national currency. A CBDC involves using blockchain technology to represent a country s official currency, meaning it is regulated by a central bank unlike popular existing cryptocurrencies. DC/EP is backed by yuan deposits held by China s central bank. China plans to roll out DC/EP ahead of the Winter Olympics which are being held in China in February 2022, and will be used for purchases in all sector
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Our fingertips have an extraordinarily high sensitivity to touch – and now it looks like that sensitivity might be largely confined to the ridges of our fingerprints.
“They really help us get very detailed information about what we touch,” says Ewa Jarocka at Umeå University in Sweden.
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Scientists have suspected that our circular, winding fingerprints might have evolved to improve our ability to grip objects by creating better friction, says Jarocka. But she says others have suggested they might contribute to our “very refined sense of touch”.
Because current models can’t explain the high levels of sensitivity people have shown in past scientific studies, Jarocka and her colleagues decided to investigate.