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Tencent wants you to pay with your palm. What could go wrong?

The Download: Tencent’s palm payments, and AI’s carbon footprint

Would you want a bottle of soda for just one cent? Before you say yes, there’s a catch: You have to pay by scanning your palm...

Tech2 years ago

Tencent wants you to pay with your palm. What could go wrong?

Zhao developed a method to use synthetic models to generate fake palm-print data—creating massive datasets that resemble creases in palms without using real palm photos. While...

This scientist is trying to create an accessible, unhackable voting machine

Tech2 years ago

The Download: voting machines, and paying with your palm

For the past 19 years, computer science professor Juan Gilbert has immersed himself in perhaps the most contentious debate over election administration in the United States—what...

Screenshot of one of the videos showing a WeChat palm-print payment device.

Tech2 years ago

Would you pay with your palm?

In one late September video that I found particularly insightful, a person who appears to be a WeChat employee can be heard instructing people to put...