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A big bet to kill the password for good

Enlarge (credit: Elena Lacey) After years of tantalizing hints that a passwordless future is just around the corner, you’re probably still not feeling any closer to that digital unshackling. Ten years into working on the issue, though, the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that specifically works on secure authentication, thinks it has finally identified the […]

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More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency

Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin’s “Orb” iris scanner. (credit: Worldcoin) More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates. Worldcoin has distributed about 30 iris-scanning hardware devices, which they call “orbs,” to early […]