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Chinese subway stations now let you pay for tickets by scanning your face

Sep23
by on September 23, 2019 at 6:14 am
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Facial recognition technology is used across China for everything from identifying criminals to measuring students’ attention in class. Now, it has debuted a system in its subway that lets you use your face as a ticket. A report from South China Morning Post suggests the subway system in the southern city of Shenzhen has started using facial recognition technology to let folks over 60 years of age register themselves for free subway rides. Other cities such as Jinan, Shanghai, Qingdao, Nanjing, and Nanning are currently experimenting with this system. The technology in Shenzen has been deployed to 18 stations with 28 automatic gate machines and…

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2 malware-infected photo apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Google Play

Sep23
by on September 23, 2019 at 6:00 am
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Google has removed two malicious apps with a combined total of over 1.5 million downloads after they were caught serving adware. The apps in question — Sun Pro Beauty Camera and Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera — were also found to have “more advanced functionality than your average adware,” according to researchers at Wandera. Intrusive out-of-app ads are more of an annoyance than a critical threat, but can also cause battery drain and infect devices with malware. The two apps included requests for more permissions than usual, allowing them to record audio without users’ consent and serve full-screen ads even without…

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CHEAP: Get $200 off a shiny new Apple MacBook Air

Sep22
by on September 22, 2019 at 7:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Released in July of this year, the MacBook Air is the newest laptop in Apple’s computing lineup. It’s designed to be an affordable (at least by the standards of Cupertino) entry-level introduction to the Mac world, incorporating some of the features of its more expensive brethren, like TouchID and a slim Retina display. The MacBook Air starts at $1,099, but if you swerve the bright lights of the Apple store and head straight to Amazon, you can get bit of cash off. Right now, the entry-level model with a 1.6GHz i5, 128GB of SSD storage, and 8GB of RAM retails…

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