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Amazon’s palm payment technology is moving from the world of convenience food to a booze-soaked baseball field. The company just announced that the Amazon One identification system is being implemented at Denver’s Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball franchise, allowing customers to buy beer and hard alcohol with their palms.

This lets you stroll right into the field’s SandLot Brewery or Coors Light Silver Bullet Bar and order up some of the good stuff without having to waste precious moments digging through your pockets to find that dang ID. Over the course of an entire game, this could save 20 to 30 seconds, depending on how thirsty you are.

Of course, you have to be enrolled in the company’s biometric Amazon One service. The web giant’s setting up kiosks at the field for quick signups, but you need your ID, your Amazon sign-in information and you have to take a selfie. Once enrolled, however, just hover your palm over the reader and the bartender will know you are above 21 and ready to gulp. The system isn’t just for age verification, as it also lets you pay with your palm.

It’s not the easiest task in the world to grab a beer at a major sporting event, so this could be a useful bit of tech, if you’re willing to give Amazon even more access to your private life. The company hasn’t been the most reliable collector of biometrics, facing lawsuits in multiple states for violating biometric privacy laws. If you still want to give this a try and are nowhere near Colorado, Amazon One palm-scanning technology is also available at many Amazon-owned Whole Foods locations.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/you-can-now-use-amazons-palm-reading-tech-to-buy-alcohol-163029654.html?src=rss

Deep-sea researchers have just accomplished an extraordinary feat — the first full-size digital scan of the Titanic, uncovering the entire wreck with unparalleled detail and clarity. The companies involved in an upcoming documentary on the Titanic shared this remarkable achievement on Thursday (05/18/2023).

To contextualize, on April 15 (1912) during its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, the Titanic tragically struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic near Newfoundland. Within hours, the luxurious ocean liner sank, resulting in the loss of approximately 1,500 lives. Since its discovery in 85, the wreck has rested some 12,500 feet below the sea, around 435 miles off the coast of Canada.

Using two remotely operated submersibles, a dedicated team of researchers spent six weeks last summer meticulously mapping the entire shipwreck and the surrounding 3-mile debris field in the vast North Atlantic. The resulting data is truly remarkable, consisting of a staggering 715,000 images — an astounding tenfold increase compared to any previous underwater 3D model attempted.

Richard Parkinson, the founder, and CEO of Magellan, a deep-sea exploration firm, expressed his enthusiasm, saying, “It’s an absolutely flawless digital copy, a ‘twin,’ of the Titanic in every intricate detail,” while Anthony Geffen, the head of Atlantic Productions, described it as a remarkable achievement.

Previous images of the Titanic often suffered from limited visibility (due to low light levels), restricting viewers to glimpses of only one area at a time — however, the new photorealistic 3D model captures both the bow and stern sections, which separated upon sinking, in stunning detail. Even the serial number on the propeller can be seen clearly (a testament to the advancements in technology.)

Researchers have dedicated 7 months to rendering the vast amount of data they collected, and a documentary showcasing their findings is expected to be released in 2024 — but that’s not all. Anthony Geffen believes that this new technology will greatly assist researchers in unraveling the details of how the Titanic met its fate, while also offering people a fresh and interactive way to connect with history. About that, he stated:

“All our assumptions about how it sank, and many of the intricate details of the Titanic, come from speculation because there is no model that allows us to reconstruct or precisely measure distances. I’m thrilled because the quality of this scan will enable future generations to virtually walk through the Titanic themselves… and see where the bridge was and so much more.”

Parks Stephenson, a renowned Titanic expert involved in the project, hailed the modeling as a “gamechanger.” He exclaimed:

 “I’m observing details that none of us have ever seen before, and this enables me to build upon everything we have learned to date, viewing the wreck in an entirely new light. We now have actual data that engineers can analyze to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanics behind the breakup and sinking, bringing us even closer to the true story of the Titanic disaster.”

So, that’s it! Let’s get ready to experience the Titanic like never before in the next year. It will for sure be a truly remarkable journey into the past.

First Full-Size 3D Scan Of Titanic Reveals Unprecedented Details Of The Shipwreck

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Because there’s a first time for everything, YouTuber Lotrfan (aren’t we all?) has created what he believes is the first talking time-lapse video. He first took a photo of himself every day for 285 days, then lined up the resulting footage with an existing video of him speaking, and made the lips of his time-lapse transparent so it appears he’s speaking over the course of 285 days. That’s neat, although I did think he was actually going to speak a few syllables every day for 285 days, then combine them. Kind of like what I was expecting, and he should have done.

You know what would have been even wilder? If the time-lapse video continued into the future and he warned himself to stop making videos like this because he’s going to disrupt the space-time continuum and create a world-swallowing black hole. That didn’t happen, although I still have the sneaking suspicion he’s doomed us all.

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