Daon

MasterCard | March 05, 2016

Dermot Desmond’s biometrics company Daon has announced it is providing software for Mastercard’s Identity Check fingerprint and facial recognition transaction security system, commonly known as “selfie pay”. The company, with offices in the United States and Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre, says it has struck an agreement for the global credit card company to utilise Daon’s IdentityX platform. The software is used in conjunction with fingerprints and photographs captured via sm...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...

VentureBeat | January 13, 2020

Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms traditional models “even at these early stages of development.” The system takes a...

Microsoft | January 13, 2020

The security team at npm (Node Package Manager), the de-facto package manager for the JavaScript ecosystem, has taken down today a malicious package that was caught stealing sensitive information from UNIX systems. The malicious package is named 1337qq-js and was uploaded on the npm repository on December 30, 2019. The package was downloaded at least 32 times, before it was spotted and today by Microsoft's Vulnerability Research team. According to an analysis by the np...