Segway/Ninebot MiniPRO: Company addresses some security issues
(Tech Xplore)—Here it is July 2017 and security vulnerability stories keep coming in with the word "firmware" as one of the key words. What's up this time?
Security
News tagged with identification
Consumer & Gadgets
Authentication may be all in your head through SkullConduct
(Tech Xplore)—There are things that are unique about you—and researchers are eager to turn those things into identification tools. They are even listening to the unique sound of the person's skull. To be sure, researchers ...
Software
Food safety: Two-stage process of extraction and classification to identify ingredients in photos of food
Research published in the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems discusses a new approach to the identification of ingredients in photographs of food. The work will be useful in our moving forward on ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Computer Sciences
An algorithm makes it possible to identify people by their heartbeat
A study carried out by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), together with the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University of Iran, concludes that the heartbeat can be used as a biometric tool to identify people.
Mar 24, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Scrambling against smudge attacks
The security-conscious among us use a PIN, a personal identification number, to "lock" our smartphones so that if the device is lost or stolen, a third party should not be able to access our contacts, messages, and other ...
Jun 11, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
POINTER: Seeing through walls to help locate firefighters
A unique positioning technology is being developed to pinpoint firefighters inside buildings where other positioning technologies fail.
Apr 7, 2021
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Tesla Model 3 owner implants key card chip into her arm to unlock and start her vehicle
When smartphones and keyfobs are impossible to keep up with, some say you could just implant them into your body so you can always unlock your car.
Aug 14, 2019
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Robotics
Robots track moving objects using RFID tags to home in on targets
A novel system developed at MIT uses RFID tags to help robots home in on moving objects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The system could enable greater collaboration and precision by robots working on packaging and ...
Feb 19, 2019
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Security
Tech Q&A: How an online bank knows who you are
Q: Besides entering my user ID and password, my financial institution makes me verify my identity by entering a personal identification number (PIN) that is sent via text, email or phone call. Even after that, I'm always ...
Oct 19, 2018
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Consumer & Gadgets
How Google's Pixel Buds earphones translate languages
In the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams's seminal 1978 BBC broadcast (then book, feature film and now cultural icon), one of the many technology predictions was the Babel Fish. This tiny yellow life-form, inserted ...
Nov 15, 2017
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