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Facial recognition coming to US airport security lane soon

Bloomberg Someday soon you may not have to show a driver’s license or passport at the airport security lane in the US. The Transportation Security Administration unveiled a multistep plan to make increased use of facial recognition and other biometric identification tools to improve accuracy and speed wait times. TSA, which has tested biometric systems in Los Angeles and Atlanta, ...

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Mena M&A deal value hits $45bn

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The value of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), transactions with any Middle Eastern & North African (Mena) involvement rea-ched $45.1 billion during the first nine months of 2018, according to Refinitiv, formally Financial & Risk business division of Thomson Reuters. The amount is 65% more than the value recorded during same period in 2017 and an ...

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Etisalat Digital, Accenture unveil ‘Explore 2020’

DUBAI / WAM Accenture and Etisalat Digital have developed an interactive 3D flythrough experience of what the Expo 2020 Dubai site will look like in two years’ time. Called Explore 2020, it was expected to be unveiled at Etisalat booth at the Gitex Technology Week. Unveiled less than a week before Expo’s two-years-to-go milestone, the 3D environment, rendered in real ...

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