Identification Devices

How Scam Calls and Messages Took Over Our Everyday Lives

To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree — is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed.

By Steven Kurutz

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Will Passports Be Replaced by Biometrics?

Technology that uses a traveler’s unique physical identifiers, such as fingerprints and faces, will be expanded at airports in the United States and abroad.

By Christine Chung

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Readers Share Their Best Personal Travel Hacks

A few months ago, we asked you for your favorite travel tips. Here are some standouts that could help make everyone’s next trip a bit better.

By Danial Adkison

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Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.

By David Yaffe-Bellany

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