Improved fingerprint search algo helps crack a 48-Year-old murder case

1 muglug 2 5/11/2025, 9:54:57 PM nytimes.com ↗

Comments (2)

phillipseamore · 18h ago
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."
treetalker · 19h ago
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.