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New York Cops Unveil Sci-Fi-Style Iris-Scanning Technology

(Nov. 16) -- In Manhattan, police reports are becoming a little bit more like "Minority Report." The New York City Police Department unveiled iris-scanning technology on Monday designed to prevent criminal suspects from assuming false identities. Authorities decided to start photographing suspects' eyes after two...

Birth, 2.0: Many Babies Born Online Before Real Life

(Oct. 7) -- In Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's "The Social Network," a cocaine-addled Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, rattles off a vision of the future that, depending on your point of view, is either dystopia or utopia. "We lived on farms, we lived in cities," he says. "Now we'll live on the Internet." For...

No Punishment for 'Puppy River Throw' Girl

(Oct. 6) -- The infamous "Puppy River Throw" girl is getting off scot-free. In what may (hopefully) be the last episode of a bizarre saga, Gawker reports that Bosnian authorities will not charge the girl who, as evidenced by disturbing viral-video footage, hurled multiple puppies into a river. It turns out that the girl...

Meet Benjaman Kyle: The Man With No Identity

(Sept. 13) -- Imagine for a moment that from this day forward you will have no memory of who you are, where you're from or the identities of any of your loved ones. It's a scary thing to contemplate, but for one man in Savannah, Ga., that harsh scenario is all too real. Meet Benjaman Kyle, a 60-something man who can...

Background on identity

An identity document (also called a piece of identification or ID, or colloquially as one's 'papers') is any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's personal identity.

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