The top U.S. aid agency wants to step up its use of smartphones, satellite imagery and GPS cameras to oversee tax-funded development projects that aid workers no longer will be able to observe with their own eyes due to the ongoing exit of ...
Tags: smartphone, GPS cameras, Consumer Electronics, monitoring project
A US financial regulator warned consumers Tuesday that using the online currency Bitcoin is fraught with risks including theft by hacking and fraud. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued the general warning amid a spate of ...
Tags: Bitcoin, US Regulator
As reported by the Credit Union Times, the National Retail Federation has deepened its opposition to deploying payment cards with embedded smart chips that do not also require cardholders to use a PIN to validate transactions. ...
Tags: Security, Protection, Credit Chips
The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws in the U.S. and renewed a push for a single national standard. Most U.S. states have ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Federal efforts to combat health care fraud recovered a record $4.3 billion in fiscal 2013 and have recouped more than $8 for every $1 spent on enforcement over the past three years, according to an annual report released Wednesday. ...
Tags: Health Care, Fraud, Recovered
Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone will be at least the third to have a fingerprint sensor for security but it's alone in letting you use that for general shopping, thanks to a partnership with PayPal. The sensor brings convenience ...
It is night time on Friday 21 February 2014 in southwest Brisbane and the rain is lashing down so hard that guests standing at the back of Andrew Barton Laundry’s state-of-art, one-week-old warehouse cannot hear managing director ...
Britain risks “anarchy and chaos” if it fails to defend its smart systems from cyber attacks, according to a security specialist. Chris McIntosh, CEO at ViaSat UK, says that without high-grade defences to protect them, devices ...
Tags: Britain, critical infrastructure, customers, grid, smart meters
A selection of health policy stories from Kentucky, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, California, Colorado and Florida. The Associated Press: Ky. Senate Passes Bill Creating Malpractice Panels A panel of medical experts would review ...
Tags: Whistleblower Case, Malpractice Panel, Woman Health, Low-Income Adult
A streetwear clothing store in Bergenfield, N.J., will sell you a camouflage hoodie for about 0.10862 bitcoin. It's received bitcoins for online orders, but so far no one has walked into the Jeffersons storefront and asked to pay with it. ...
Tags: transactions, market niche, form of payment
Cutting-edge mobile phone technology is set to revolutionise the way people shop, bringing a range of new and complex challenges for retailers, according to new research by Dr Emmeline Taylor, senior lecturer in criminology with the ANU ...
House Republicans are considering their options on tying proposals they want to see to passing an increase in the debt ceiling, among them fixing the way Medicare pays doctors. Democrats and the White House are making it increasingly clear ...
Tags: doc Fix, Debt-Ceiling Raise, GOP, Democrats
Today's headlines include stories about the health law's coverage gap. Kaiser Health News: Arkansas' Medicaid Experiment, Key To Obamacare Expansion, On Ropes Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "The Arkansas' ...
Tags: Kaiser Health, Health Law, ACA, CMS
China reported robust exports for January, but assessing the nation’s true economic strength is no easy task. The Lunar New Year holidays that began at the end of January apparently created an export surgeA transient variation in the ...
Tags: Export Data, economic strength
Los Angeles Times: Democrat Leading In Florida Race Eyed As Test Of Obamacare A Democratic candidate who has explicitly defended Obamacare holds a slight lead in a special congressional election in Florida that both parties are eyeing as ...