"Using artificial intelligence, researchers analyzed 60,000 pairs of fingerprints from a government database and found several matches." by T.K. Randall via Unexplained-Mysteries The findings could one day help to solve cold criminal cases and to acquit innocent people. For the longest time, police investigators have used fingerprints to identify suspects and to tie them to crime scenes, leading to countless arrests and convictions. This is because fingerprints are thought to be essentially unique to each individual finger, with no two being alike. For this reason, fingerprints are also used as a form of biometric data to unlock everything from mobile phone lock screens to bank vaults. But what if it turned out that fingerprints aren't actually unique at all ? Now according to a new study headed up by Columbia University engineering student Gabe Guo, fingerprints are not inherently unique - especially those of different fingers on the same hand. Using artificial intelligence,