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POPSRussian Bank introduces A.T.M. with an Ear for the Truth The new ATM performs facial recognition, reads fingerprints, and checks voiceprints to determine whether users are lying (testing voice levels for signs of nervousness, anger, or deceit). Sberbank, whose majority owner is the Russian government, said it intended to install the new machines in malls and bank branches around the country eventually. The voice recognition technologies that his company is contributing are already in widespread use in the West and are spreading rapidly. Sberbank is hardly alone in looking over the horizon at new types of banking automation. Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, for example, are testing futuristic technologies in a handful of bank branches in Berlin, New York and Tokyo. "Are you to be trusted..? Behave!" Please wake me up..!!