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Spencer Platt | Getty Images #Amazon #Biometrics #Credit #Identification #AmazonGo #Datacollection Technology giant Amazon is working to allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands so that they can scan for purchases with their palms at checkout areas in physical stores, people familiar with the project told The Wall Street Journal. While Amazon's plan is in the early stages, the company has reportedly begun working with Visa on testing out the terminals and has discussed the project with Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Synchrony Financial. The company previously filed a patent for a "non-contact biometric identification system" that features a "hand scanner" to produce a picture of a person's palm. The news offers a look into Amazon's ideas on transforming the way people shop in brick-and-mortar stores, and how it could work with credit card companies to further integrate itself into people's fina...

#face #recognition #identification They say everyone has a #doppelgänger but is that really true?  Meet a young woman who found her own look-alike and figure out how we actually recognize faces. It's Okay To Be Smart  Published on Dec 14, 2018 TEST YOUR FACE MEMORY! Cambridge Memory Test http://bit.ly/2Gh0UXo Thorn Child Finder Challenge http://bit.ly/2QQxmnp Acknowledgements: Dr. Teghan Lucas, University of New South Wales Dr. Martin Eimer, Cambridge University Dr. Michael Sheehan, Cornell University Amanda Green (her real Instagram is @4mandagreen) Ruben van der Dussen/Thorn Cheng et al. (2017). The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain. Cell 169, 6 (1013-1028. http://dx.doi.org./10.1016/j.cell.201... Huckenbeck (2013). Identification of the Living. University Clinic Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany. Elsevier Ltd. Johnson et al. (1991) Newborns’ preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline. Cognition. 40(1-2):1-19. ...