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Meet the Nymi authentication wristband, the first wearable device I’m actually excited about

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by on March 24, 2014 at 8:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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The onslaught of wearable devices is hit or miss right now. Most of the ones I’ve seen are of dubious value, but Bionym’s upcoming Nymi wristband has enormous potential to improve our lives. The Nymi works by using your unique electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to act as a biometric authentication layer for other devices, applications and services. Put another way, Nymi uses your heartbeat like a password to confirm that you are, in fact, you. According to Bionym CEO Karl Martin, ECG is significantly more reliable than face recognition and only slightly less secure than a fingerprint. When it arrives later…

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Why entrepreneurs are obsessed with failures

Mar24
by on March 24, 2014 at 7:06 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Aashish Gupta (or The Fundamentalyst) is an investment banking research associate covering European Tech sector. He loves to experiment with startup ideas and write about technology, life, society and spirituality. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” While most of you must be sick of the much clichéd idea of “learning from failures” – a phrase which annoys us even more in the darkest periods of our life – I believe in the opposite. There is nothing you can learn from failure; failure only peels your character layer by layer to unleash the more enlightened version…

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Tumblr ups the security of its blogging platform with optional two-factor authentication

Mar24
by on March 24, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Tumblr started giving its users the option to turn on SSL encryption earlier this month, but now it’s backing that up with two-factor authentication. As TechCrunch reports, It’s available today from the Settings section of Tumblr and means you can set any login attempt to require two separate keys. The first is a regular password, while the second is a unique 6-digit code sent to a mobile phone number of your choosing. Two-factor authentication is becoming increasingly commonplace on the Web, as services look to bulk up the security of user accounts. Given that two-factor authentication is optional, this is…

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Microsoft releases temporary fix for Word vulnerability used in targeted attacks

Mar24
by on March 24, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Microsoft is investigating a new remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The company has issued a security advisory after confirming reports that the flaw is being exploited as part of targeted attacks against Word 2010. The company has found that the vulnerability affects all supported versions of Microsoft Word. The flaw in question makes remote code execution possible if you open a specially crafted RTF file using an affected version of Word, as well as if you preview or open a specially crafted RTF email message in Outlook while using Word as the email viewer (Word is set as…

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iOS 7 adoption hits 85% according to Apple’s App Store usage numbers, iOS 6 slips to 12%

Mar24
by on March 24, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

Apple today updated its iOS adoption numbers, as measured by usage of its App Store and presented on the support page for developers. iOS 7 has now hit the 85 percent mark while iOS 6 has slipped to 12 percent. It appears Apple is currently including iOS 7.1 in the iOS 7 category, so unfortunately we don’t have official numbers on how the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system is being adopted. Apple first reported iOS numbers based on App Store usage on December 1, 2013, when 74 percent of users were on iOS 7, 22 percent were…

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