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Tracking the Trackers: For Better or Worse

SecureWorld News

The majority of phone users simply go about their day with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular data switched on all day. These radios are being tracked and tagged by marketers, telecom companies and individuals in an effort to resell that data to parties willing to pay. We never relied on metadata and any kind of saved user data.

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Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

GeekWire

Alaska Airlines has made electronic bag tags available to elite Mileage Plan members, with a broader rollout planned in the first half of this year. Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines self-serve kiosks to print bag tags. Alaska is the first U.S.

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5 reasons to shift from Flash to HTML5 for Mobile Learning

Kitaboo

In fact, in one of his articles, he said, “new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and on PCs too)”. The increasing use of mobile devices has led to the creation of content that can be easily accessed on smartphones as well. Though easily available, Flash was 100% proprietary.

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Photos: Tree deep in Asian giant hornet nest, entomologists recover ‘chewed off’ radio tracker

GeekWire

The cellophane-wrapped log was sawed open inside a walk-in cooler at the Washington State University Puyallup Research and Extension Center in hopes that cooler temps would make any hornets that remained alive less mobile. after trapping and tagging a hornet with a tiny radio transmitter. A hornet inside the nest.

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Alaska Airlines will remove kiosks, install iPads, and use facial recognition to streamline lobbies

GeekWire

Alaska Airlines’ new iPad-based bag tag stations will let passengers scan their boarding passes rather than manually enter codes. For example, the iPad-based bag tag stations will also scan the barcodes on paper boarding passes. Currently, about 70% of passengers check in beforehand. Alaska wants to get that close to 100%.

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Google Cloud for Retailers adds AI-based inventory, e-commerce tools

CIO Business Intelligence

The tool, which is built on Google’s Vertex AI Vision and powered by two machine learning models — product recognizer and tag organizer — can be used to identify different product types based on visual imaging and text features, the company said, adding that retailers don’t have to spend time and effort into training their own AI models.

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Passwords Are Ruining the Web

Phil Windley

They're insecure and lead to data breaches. Compare, for a moment, your online, web experience at your bank with the mobile experience from the same bank. As a consequence, when I need somethings from my bank, I pull out my phone and use the mobile app. Tags: identity passwords authentication ssi. Others don't.