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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. A 2020 U.S. Government Accountability Office report says that the U.S.

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US indicts 7 individuals and 3 companies in alleged $100M biodiesel RINs fraud in Indiana

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Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, announced the return of two indictments against six individuals and three companies for offenses involving federal renewable fuel programs, allegedly creating losses to victims totaling more than $100 million. The defendants.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? Chad Hagen In December 2020, a fishy distress call from a boat off the coast of Maine opened up an investigation into its authenticity—an investigation that played into the resurgence of something called “voiceprinting.” So even in the future, try not to misplace a security key.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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There's sort of an interesting backstory there that has to do with the fact that, you know, as mammalian systems were evolving, lead didn't exist in the environment, right? So mammalian systems—proteins, for example—didn't need to evolve the ability to differentiate between calcium and lead because lead wasn't in the environment.