iOS, Android, Web and Desktop Open-Source Code Marketplace - Binpress. Kurzgesagt - Home. Nigerian banks begin biometrics registration project. Pinless ATMs: the future of SA banking. Within the next two years, pinless ATM technology is due to be implemented in major banks across the country It’s the stuff high-tech, futuristic movies are made of – pin less Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) that require nothing more to identify you than a swipe of a finger. But it’s about to become a reality because Lumidigm, an authentication solutions company based in the United States is in the process of initiating finger identification ATMs in the country. Greg Sarrail, Vice President Solutions Business Development spoke to DESTINY about the realisation of this cutting edge innovation. According to Sarrail, Brazil is the first country to have successfully adopted the technology, with 50 000 units deployed in the South American country.
Several of the largest private and public sector banks and many of the leading ATM manufacturers in that country have selected Lumidigm as their biometric business partner. Although it may seem complicated, a pinless ATM is actually quite simple. Can Smart Guns End the Gun Control Stalemate? If Sen. Ed Marke has his way, all guns in the U.S. will become smart guns. A bill proposed in February would require that within three years, all firearms manufactured, sold or imported to the U.S. would incorporate technology that only allows the weapon to be fired by its owner.
The idea is that such technology could reduce police deaths, create accountability and reduce violence overall. The bill has not been received favorably, even by gun-control advocates, and it appears unlikely to become law this time around. Forbes contributor Nish Acharya wrote in a recent editorial that he supports Marke’s efforts and gun control in general, but mandating technology is not the best way to make the public safer.
“This technology, like that of any other industry, needs to go through the innovation cycle and figure out its business model,” he said. Firearm makers have been trying to make the technology work for 50 years, but there hasn’t been a commercial success yet, Owens wrote. Why haven't biometrics replaced passwords yet? Smashing Magazine — For Professional Web Designers and Developers. Learni. Quartz. How to control bullets in Microsoft Word. Quick reference to controlling bullets in Word Don't use Format > Bullets and Numbering.
It looks inviting, but it's not not what you need.Don't use the toolbar bullet button. It's not what you need either.Apply List Bullet styles to paragraphs you want bulleted.Modify the List Bullet styles so you can have the font, paragraph and other formatting to suit your needs.Modify the bullets and indenting by modifying the numbering settings of the List Bullet styles.
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If you're a keyboard person Type some text in your document. If you're a mouse person Oh! Ninetology sold over 1 million devices to date. Ninetology Malaysia, a Malaysia-based smartphone maker, announced that it has sold over 1 million mobile devices to date. [(L-R) Anaz Ahmad Tajuddin, AirAsia Group Head of Engineering; Marco Beh, Ninetology Group Chief Operating Officer; Mantosh Malhotra, Qualcomm Senior Director, Business Development Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore; Jay Srage, Qualcomm President of Middle-East, Africa & South East Asia; Sean Ng, Ninetology Group Chief Executive; Goh Thih Liang, Qualcomm Director Of Business Development Officer; Schrene Goh, AirAsia Head of Ancillary Marketing; Shian, Ninetology Group Chief Finance Officer posing at the Launch of Ninetology and Qualcomm Aircraft Livery.]
“We have sold over 1 million units to date and have expanded into Indonesia as of September 2013, a partnership with Indonesia’s renowned singer and actress, Agnes Monica. The company announced RM180 million in revenue with 12% mobile device market share in Malaysia as of December 2013. BGR | Mobile and tech news, reviews, opinions and insights.
Octa Core Phones (MediaTek MT6592, Exynos 5410/5420) in India 2014. Now we have reached the octa core era. Quad core seems to be not enough to power Android driven smartphones. It’s definitely not the reason current quad core phones are unable to play high-graphics content it’s more like a trend. Samsung Exynos 5410/5420 SoC octa core chips are already there. Now MediaTek joins the competition with MT6592 true octa core SoC.
Samsung started the octa core trend with Exynos 5410 SoC. Octa Core Mobile Processor Unlike Exynos 5 series chips MediaTek MT6592 is a ‘True Octa Core’ SoC where all 8 CPU cores remain active at time. Do we actually need octa core processor? I guess no!! The reason I feel octa core is not necessary is, world’s leading chip maker, Qualcomm, still sticks to 4 CPU cores and the most powerful smartphones of recent times, all, use Qualcomm Snapdragon 800AB/AC SoC with amazingly powerful Krait 400 CPU and Aderno 330 GPU. Is it better to get a MediaTek octa core instead of quad core? Yes, of course. Octa Core Phones in India 12. 11. 10. 9. 8.
The Cubot One: A brilliantly made HTC One knockoff | TechnoBlimp. Historically, chinese-made phones have suffered from lack-luster design, awful build quality, and antiquated software. However in recent months we’ve seen a surge in higher-quality devices coming from the land of big exports. To show how far manufactures have come in emulating the designs of larger companies like Samsung and Apple, this reddit post tells the story of how a man almost got duped into keeping a Samsung Galaxy S4 knockoff bought offline.
And I doubt you need a reminder of all the plentiful fake iPhones available from chinese manufacturers and online retailers. We’ve seen our fair share of Samsung, Apple, and HTC clones, however we’ve never seen any that have been this convincing. Through the possession of decent specs, and a design that would fool just about anyone, I think it’s safe to say that this is the year small Chinese manufacturers have caught up to the big boys. The device below is NOT the HTC One. The most convincing HTC One clone (Click to enlarge image) Like this: TechnoBuffalo.
Reviews - GadgetReactor - Reviews, tips & tricks from Singapore Tech Bloggers. iNO 2 (or iNO Two) is the successor to the hugely popular iNO One. The iNO One owed its success to being of the few non camera android phones available, but was plagued by numerous complaints of software bugs and slow speed. The iNO 2 comes at a higher retail price of $328, as compared to the iNO One, which retailed for $268. So expectations of the iNO 2 are high. Let’s review the iNO 2 and see if it’s worth the difference in price. It’s now available from MyMobile, an online retailer at $298. Which is a $30 discount. iNO one on the left, iNO 2 on the right Hardware First impressions: The iNO 2 is freaking light and thin compared to other phones.
iNO one on top, iNO 2 below The back of the iNO 2 is the same plastic clamp cover as the iNO One. iNO 2 on the left The display of the iNO 2 at 4.3 inch is larger than the iNO One, which is always a good thing. Specifications Dual Sim The iNO 2 comes with a dual sim slot. Software Software is your standard Android 4.2.2. Performance and Battery Life. Lava to launch Xolo smartphone with Intel processor on 14 March. Lava is launching a new Xolo smartphone, that it claims will be the world’s fastest, on the same day that Samsung is launching the Galaxy S IV. Lava is launching the smartphone on 14 March in Goa. The company has begun teasing the event for its smartphone on as “Mission X” on its website and Facebook page along with a countdown, and claims that this is the fastest smartphone ever. While rumours indicate that the smartphone will have the latest Intel Clover Trail+ processor which was showcased at the recent Mobile World Congress (2013), a Times of India report states it will have a different Intel chip clocked at 2Ghz.
For more details you can read the TOI report here. Screengrab of Lava website. The Clover Trail+ processors includethe Z2520, Z2560 and Z2580 which are clocked at 1.2GHz, 1.6GHz and 2GHz respectively. Other details about Lava’s ‘super fast’ smartphone remain sketchy for now. Lava recently released the Xolo Q 800, a quad-core device for Rs 12,499. Biometric-surveillance-means-someone-always-watching. Incrimination by selfie can happen. From 2008 to 2010, as Edward Snowden has revealed, the National Security Agency (NSA) collaborated with the British Government Communications Headquarters to intercept the webcam footage of over 1.8 million Yahoo users. The agencies were analyzing images they downloaded from webcams and scanning them for known terrorists who might be using the service to communicate, matching faces from the footage to suspects with the help of a new technology called face recognition.
The outcome was pure Kafka, with innocent people being caught in the surveillance dragnet. In fact, in attempting to find faces, the Pentagon's Optic Nerve program recorded webcam sex by its unknowing targets—up to 11 percent of the material the program collected was "undesirable nudity" that employees were warned not to access, according to documents. And that's just the beginning of what face recognition technology might mean for us in the digital era. But the technology has a dark side. Read Our Lips. And Eyes. And Palms. Asel Myrzabekova was shocked when she arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, two years ago. It was her first time in Africa, and she expected to find dusty roads and city grime. Instead, she was welcomed by a litter-free city, efficient public transport and fancy coffee shops. Source: Ben Curtis/AP/Corbis Family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda, April 5, 2014.
“It was definitely not what I was expecting,” Myrzabekova says, who moved to Kigali from Kyrgyzstan to work for the U.N. Most visitors are surprised by the new face of Rwanda, which just commemorated the 20th anniversary of the genocide that claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days. Much of the recent coverage about that horrific event focused on the solemn memorials, but there’s another story to tell as well. Having lost 10 percent of its population, the country was left impoverished and traumatized, and with a severe shortage of skilled labor. Source: Corbis. Narratively: Human stories, masterfully told. One-Third Of Wearable Owners Are Abandoning Their Devices. No matter how stylish the product or how comprehensive the marketing campaign, ultimately it’s the users that will decide whether wearable devices succeed in the years to come.
A new report from Endeavour Partners in the US has found that one-third of fitness tracker users stopped using their device within the first six months, a statistic that will be of concern to the many companies looking to get a foothold in the market. The study shows that while wearables have made a modest impact on the mainstream, sustained engagement is a problem. 1 in 10 Americans own some form of activity tracker, but half of them are no longer using their device. Whether the problem is a lack of motivation or a lack of functionality, it’s an issue that needs to be addressed by manufacturers hoping to make a permanent impact on the market. “Users quickly abandon wearables that don’t help them make positive changes,” reads the white paper.