In the greatly desirable move to eventually step away from password use, the company is rejecting bio-based sign ins. Gregg Stefancik, a Facebook engineer, has now revealed that while he would like to eventually bring the social media company away from its reliance on traditional passwords for security, he would find that QR codes are a far superior replacement, particularly when compared to biometrics, which are being considered – and already used – by other companies. In fact, Stefancik was greatly and vocally opposed to the use of biometrics for…
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Wearable technology shirt offers awesome fitness tracking
This special clothing is designed to make accurate and useful biofeedback more practical to wearers. A new form of wearable technology in the form of a t-shirt from OMsignal, which features knitted electrodes to work as sensors for respiration and heart rates has now been developed to help to overcome the limitations of today’s fitness trackers and to make this tech much more practical to those who want to wear it. The idea is that when the tech has been worked right into clothing, it becomes far more palatable. The…
Read MoreMobile health care grows as technology meets the Affordable Care Act
Electronics firms now believe that mhealth will be openly embraced by Obamacare. Consumers aren’t the only ones who appear to be looking at the various mobile health care options that are becoming available in the form of wearable technology, such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, apps, and other biometrics collectors. Companies behind these gadgets now believe that the Affordable Care Act will adore mhealth. Through the popularity of mhealth devices, alone, it is becoming clear that people are interested in what mobile health care has to offer. Wristbands, dongles, clips, stickers,…
Read MoreMobile security based on heartbeat to be used by Bitcoin
The online currency is looking to biometrics to verify identity. Bitcoin has already changed the way companies, businesses, and governments think of currency, and now it’s working on altering the way that mobile security verifies identities, through the use of a wearable biometrics through the use of a user’s heartbeat. They will be using a smartphone app called Nymi which was developed by a company called Bionym. Bionym is a company based in Toronto, Canada. This mobile app development will help to make sure that digital wallets are more secure.…
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