Smart city projects are still most successful when they tackle discrete, sometimes isolated, city issues.
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Business-to-consumer payouts are attracting a small but growing cadre of payment processors and fintechs eager to exploit a multi-trillion-dollar market where checks and automated clearing house direct deposits have a heavy presence, according to a new report.
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Iran-affiliated hackers pose a threat to industrial control systems (ICS) security as well as ordinary businesses. Given the heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, organizations with connected industrial infrastructure should be on guard.
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Consumers with Alexa, Amazon.com Inc.’s voice assistant, enabled in their cars and trucks soon will be able to pay for fuel at more than 11,500 Exxon and Mobil gas stations from inside their vehicles.
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With payments fraud growing every year, the pressure is on in markets worldwide to adopt more sophisticated technology to verify the identity of mobile users.
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Each holiday season, there’s a huge surge in the purchase of smart home devices. Here are seven IoT device security guidelines to minimize your cyber risk.
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Not a day goes by, it seems, without a depressing news story emerging about the environment. At the same time, there have been a plethora of stories about technology gone awry in recent years — whether it is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, an autonomous vehicle killing a pedestrian or machine vision systems categorizing minorities as “gorillas.”
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Digital transformation strategies fail more often than they succeed. A Thyssenkrupp exec provides advice on how to increase the odds of triumph.
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How technologies like 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 stack up and what it means for the connectivity landscape.
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Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Early Warning said Zelle’s volume totaled $49 billion, up 58% from 2018’s third quarter. Over the same time, transactions increased 73% to 196 million.
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Unified token payments offer benefits that include but go well beyond enhanced security. That’s why they’re just what merchants need in today’s hypercompetitive marketplace.
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The Internet of Things has the potential to touch every aspect of our lives and, in doing so, improve our efficiency and productivity in each of those areas. Sometimes, given the sheer range of opportunities afforded by the IoT, it’s difficult to envision exactly what those use cases look like and how they’ll make life and work easier.
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Payments executives love to talk about the security of paying with a smart phone, but that message still hasn’t gotten through to consumers, according to new survey findings from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Now that digital health has been a buzzword of sorts for the past decade and a half, we look at overlooked digital health care advances.
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It was probably only a matter of time before the gig economy embraced barbering. A New York City-based startup called Shortcut on Monday announced it was starting its national rollout with an extension of its app-based haircut and hairstyling service to Philadelphia.
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Cyber criminals took no time off in the first six months of 2019 as human-initiated attacks against online sites grew by 13% from the same period a year ago, finds the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report released Tuesday.
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Communications providers are leveraging 5G connectivity to help industries and governments develop connected, smart cities.
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Makers of smart speakers and other devices for use in domestic environments vow to offer users privacy protections while gaining valuable information from them.
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To manage IoT security risk, we must not just learn from old mistakes, but also understand the motivations of the most-dangerous threat actors.
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Apple Inc.’s new Apple Card is an unconventional animal with what some observers call ho-hum rewards, but separate studies released Wednesday show the card nonetheless could make a big splash.
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