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    Wednesday, 4 September 2019

    Amazon apparently wants to turn your hand into an ID for store purchases


    Amazon is reportedly working on speeding up checkouts at its physical stores by using your hand as a form of identification. According to a the New York Post, the retail giant is said to be quietly testing new scanners that can identify human hands to make a store purchase. The company intends to roll out the payment technology at its Whole Foods supermarket chain starting next year. “While a regular card transaction typically takes between three and four seconds, Amazon‘s new technology can process the charge in less than 300 milliseconds,” it reported. The system — aptly code-named “Orville” and intended…

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