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NYU Langone Patients Can Soon Check In By Scanning Their Hands: Here's How NYU Langone Patients Can Soon Check In By Scanning Their Hands: Here's How
NYU Langone Patients Can Soon Check In By Scanning Their Hands: Here's How A New York City-area healthcare system will allow some patients to check into its facilities with just the palm of their hand. NYU Langone Health is rolling out Amazon One, a contactless palm-scanning system, to speed up patient check-ins across its facilities, the online retail giant said in a news release on Monday, Mar. 3. The rollout of the new check-in system will begin on the week of Monday, Mar. 10. The technology, already used at Amazon Fresh grocery stores, stadiums, and airports, is being integrated into NYU Langone's check-in process to enhance efficiency and security. "One…

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by Chris Spiker
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Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring
Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring Amazon's web hosting subsidiary apparently suffered a worldwide outage Tuesday morning. Reports of the Amazon Web Service outage began rolling in around 10:20 a.m., DownDetector.com shows. The outage caused a ripple effect across platforms that rely on AWS such as Alexa, Amazon Music, Netflix and Disney Plus. “Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, which may be impacting your service,” it says. Nearly 28,000 users had reported an outage as of 12:30 p.m. Amazon was apparently investigating.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million
Historic $148M Settlement In Uber Data Breach: New Jersey Gets $3.75 Million New Jersey will get $3.75 million of a whopping $148 million that Uber Technologies is paying all 50 states and the District of Columbia for a data breach that compromised the personal information of Uber riders and drivers, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday.  The $148 million settlement represents the largest multi-state data breach settlement in U.S. history, Grewal said. It "resolves allegations that Uber failed to comply with state laws relating to the collection, maintenance and safeguarding of consumers’ personal information, and with state data breach notific…

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by Jerry DeMarco