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What is Face ID? Apple’s new facial recognition tech explained

Credit to Author: Michael deAgonia| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:57:00 -0700

With just a glance, Face ID can unlock Apple’s new iPhone X, giving owners a new authentication paradigm for the first time since the arrival of Touch ID with the iPhone 5. Face ID – that’s Apple’s name for the technology – uses a complex front-facing camera system and accompanying software to unlock the iPhone and authenticate purchases and payments with a mere glance.

The futuristic-seeming tech is one of the iPhone X’s main selling points, along with its “Super Retina” OLED screen, slimmer, bezel-less form factor and improved camera. But it also raises questions about whether the technology is as easy and secure to use as the tried-and-true fingerprint-based Touch ID.

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Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:04:20 +0000

Equifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person’s Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, and began restoring the site eight days later saying it had added unspecified “security enhancements.”

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Smart circuit breakers and ISO 50001: a perfect match for efficiency

Credit to Author: Franck Gruffaz| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:00:03 +0000

As the world’s population continues to grow so will energy consumption. With over a billion people still without access to electricity and increasing migrations to cities, more energy will be… Read more »

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