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Privacy row over FBI iris scan ‘trial’
The FBI has collected nearly 430,000 iris scans over the past three years, an investigation by technology website The Verge, has revealed. What started as a pilot in 2013 has grown into a database "without any public debate or oversight", said the American Civil Liberties Union. It amounted to "runaway...
U.S. Drops New York Fight With Apple After Gaining Access To IPhone
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its effort to force Apple Inc <AAPL.O> to help unlock an iPhone in a drug case in New York after someone provided authorities the passcode to access the device. In a letter filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, prosecutors said that investigators late on Thursday used...
HSBC stops sending contactless cards as ‘older people’ are ‘BAFFLED’ by the technology
HSBC BANK has reportedly stopped sending out contactless cards because they are too confusing for older people. Some elderly customers have been left baffled by the ‘tap and go’ cards which allow instant purchases on anything up to the value of £30. In some cases, customers have been charged on them when...
Google parent Alphabet gets a boost from advertising sales
Alphabet — Google's parent company — has reported a 17% rise in quarterly revenue after strong advertising sales on mobile devices. Revenue rose to $20.26bn (£14bn) between January and March, from $17.26bn a year earlier. But Alphabet's share price fell about 6% in after-hours trading, as the revenue...
Apple’s Book, Film Services Go Dark In China
Apple Inc’s <AAPL.O> online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms. Attempts by Reuters to access Apple’s iBooks Store and iTunes Movies services were met with a message in Chinese...
Top Military Officials Welcome New-Age Technology in War Zones
Lasers. Electromagnetism. Robotics. Those descriptive words conjure images of “Star Trek” vernacular from science-fiction television. We almost can hear Capt. James Kirk barking out orders from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Instead of associating those commands with the fictitious Captain Kirk in a...
Google glass to help kids with autism ‘see’ emotions
Researchers are developing a special technology based on the Google glass device that could help children born with autism recognize, classify, and basically “see” the emotions of other people. Google glass, a wearable device thought to be so useless by even its manufacturer that it was taken off the market just a...
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