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Improved fingerprint search algo helps crack a 48-Year-old murder case (nytimes.com)
1 point by muglug on May 11, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Not saying it's the case but some might want to rebrand/spin lowering the threshold for similarity (number of unique features between sample and suspect) as "improved algorithm."


Not new: improvement made in 2018.

> He said that the difference this time was the F.B.I.’s upgrade of its fingerprint search algorithm, which happened in 2018.




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