You might notice the arrival of some new kiosks at a few Rite Aid stores in Center City Philadelphia. We first told you about the KeyMe service last month. You ...

Just about everyone has keys for their cars, where they live and work, for vehicles, and other locks and at some point we may need duplicates or to replace lost or broken ones. Even more critically, ...

The last time you had a key cut, you probably experienced a retro service, which included speaking to a real human (ugh!). KeyMe puts the kibosh on the old-fashioned key copying user experience with a ...

Are you afraid of getting locked out of your house or car and having to hire an expensive locksmith? There’s a company that wants to give you a cheaper option in case of an emergency. KeyMe wants to ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent to Boulder-based minuteKEY, a manufacturer of self-service kiosks for automated key duplication, according to a company news release. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A yellow booth with a screen caught my attention on a recent grocery trip. A blue ring on the contraption glowed, luring me toward it. This was no lottery ticket machine — it was a ...

When lock maker Schlage imprinted the words "do not duplicate" across the top of the keys for their high-security Primus locks, they meant to create another barrier to reproducing a piece of metal ...

[Ben] and his associates over at the University of California at San Diego came up with a way to duplicate keys using a picture of them. They developed an algorithm that uses measurements from known ...