ALL GADGETS MANIA

Google aims to kill passwords by year end London: Google is all set to kill passwords with Project Abacus, unveiled during the tech giant’s recent I/O conference.In fact, the technology will be tested by leading financial companies during trials starting in June. The system is primarily designed to work on smartphones and works by checking critical physical features and attributes.Which means, instead of asking traditional numerical passwords, the phone will now scan the user's face, voice etc. It even registers who you swipe the phone.All this information is then fed into the API, which will then generate a ‘trust score’.According to the Guardian newspaper, Google’s Dan Kaufman said the password-killing technology should be available to every Android developer by the end of 2016, “if all goes well”.Trust API was revealed by Daniel Kaufman, the head of Google’s research unit ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects), TechCrunch reports....