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Identity verification sounds like the holy grail of fraud prevention but only businesses know the amount of effort and resources that go into ensuring secure document verification. Many times, the extra tough verification makes customers uncomfortable resulting in reduced loyalty. While finding the balance between the two factors is difficult, it is certainly not impossible. AI-based ID verification is here to rescue companies from these difficult situations. Bureau, an AI-based identity verification platform, ensures…

Redmi Note 10 has allegedly received Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification, suggesting that it may launch in the Indian market in the near future. A Xiaomi phone with model number M2101K7AI was spotted on BIS website, that is believed to be Redmi Note 10. The smartphone has been in the news for some time now and it has previously been spotted on the US FCC website. Redmi Note 10 is expected to launch in India in February. However, Xiaomi has not shared an exact date.A Xiaomi phone with model number M2101K7AI,…

WASHINGTON—The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to prod banks to pay back more customers who are the victims of scams on Zelle and other money-transfer services, according to people familiar with the coming regulatory effort.Under new guidance the bureau is preparing to release in the coming weeks, banks could face heightened requirements around certain scams that have become more prevalent on these platforms, these people said, such as when a customer is tricked into sending money to a scammer pretending…

Article content LONDON — Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was closing CBC”s Moscow bureau and withdrawing visas and accreditation from the public broadcaster’s journalists after Ottawa banned Russian state TV station Russia Today. Article content “With regret we continue to notice open attacks on the Russian media from the countries of the so-called collective West who call themselves civilized,” Maria Zakharova, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, told reporters. “A decision has been taken to make…

Sam Knight is a prizewinning British New Yorker journalist whose features and profiles fizz with doggedly chased-down detail distilled into compelling narrative, whether he’s writing about Ronnie O’Sullivan, the £8bn-a-year sandwich industry or preparations for the death of the Queen (“Operation London Bridge”). The Premonitions Bureau, his first book, showcases the gifts that make him so endlessly readable. A richly researched feat of compression, it tells a tantalising tale of the unlikely interplay between the press,…

On 20 October, 1966, 10-year-old Eryl Mai Jones, from Aberfan in south Wales, told her mother about a dream she’d had the night before. “I dreamt I went to school and there was no school there,” she said. “Something black had come down all over it.” The next day, at 9.14am, a colliery waste tip came crashing down the hillside, smothering the village school and the surrounding houses. Eryl Mai was among the 144 dead.Visiting Aberfan in the days after the tragedy was John Barker, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and…