Try shaking your credit card. Researchers pinpointed nine gestures that may make the technology actually touchless. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. One of the major selling points of supposedly "touchless" payment methods like Apple Pay and modern bank cards has been the promise of less physical contact with potentially germ-covered surfaces. That's sometimes true, but often the initial "tap" for a latte is followed by a prompt to select a tip amount on a shared screen.

More than 240 metro stations across Moscow now allow passengers to pay for a ride by looking at a camera. The Moscow metro has launched what authorities say is the first mass-scale deployment of a facial recognition payment system. According to The Guardian, passengers can access the payment option called FacePay by linking their photo, bank card and metro card to the system via the Mosmetro app. "Now all passengers will be able to pay for travel without taking out their phone, Troika or bank card," Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin tweeted. In the official Moscow website's announcement, the country's Department of Transport said all Face Pay information will be encrypted.

The Moscow metro has rolled out what authorities have lauded as the world's first mass-scale facial recognition payment system, amid privacy concerns over the new technology. The cashless, cardless and phoneless system, named Face Pay, launched at more than 240 stations across the Russian capital on Friday. "Now all the passengers will be able to pay for travel without taking out their phone, metro or bank card," the Moscow mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, tweeted on Thursday evening. To activate Face Pay, Sobyanin said, passengers will need to connect their photo, bank card and metro card to the service through the metro's mobile app. "It will be enough just to look at the camera to pass through the turnstiles," Sobyanin said.

Right this moment's main minds discuss AI with host Byron Reese Hearken to this episode or learn the total transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Byron Reese: That is Voices in AI dropped at you by GigaOm, and I'm Byron Reese. Right this moment our visitor is Steve Durbin. His principal areas of focus embody technique, info know-how, cybersecurity and the rising safety risk panorama throughout the company and private surroundings. He runs his firm because the managing director, which he has been doing for nearly a decade. Welcome to the present, Steve.

Seven decades ago, agricultural scientists used high-yielding, dwarf varieties of wheat and rice to revolutionize agriculture across Asia and Latin America – and now European data scientists are teaming up with Kenyan farmers to use the fruits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to drive the next agricultural one. The Green Revolution produced massive increases in crop yields throughout Asia and Latin America, but even today, many smallholders –farmers who produce crops on small pieces of land – struggle to afford and utilize the mechanized equipment and agricultural chemicals that came with that revolution. When it comes to Africa, there is still great potential for productivity increases in agriculture. The number of small-holder farmers in Kenya could be between 5 million and 9 million people according to some estimates. In order to see how artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data could help those farmers, French consultancy firm Capgemini teamed up with a Kenyan social enterprise in the Kakamega region in Western Kenya.

Nazi WWII encryption technology is being used to create the bank cards of the future. Technology from the German's Enigma ciphering machines, famously decoded by British mathematician Alan Turing, will be used to create ultra-secure encryption cards. The new cards will have machines in them to replace the existing three-digit CVV security number found on the back strip of most bank cards today, and could kill off the pin-entry card reader entirely. Technology from the German's Enigma ciphering machines, famously decoded by British mathematician Alan Turing, will be used to create credit cards. Pictured is a scene from the 2014 film'The Imitation Game' in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing Encryption technology during the second world war relied on frequently changing'cyphers'.