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Why does coffee taste better when you pay with cash? How did a victim of human trafficking take her knowledge of how the money flows in that world to become a law enforcement consultant? How does an economist think about Bitcoin? There's so much more to money than just investment portfolios.Mostly Money not only teaches you how to take control of your finances, it explores the full world of all things money with expert interviews conducted by Preet Banerjee (former television host for Oprah Winfrey).
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47: How your heart rhythm will replace all your passwords
May 05, 2016
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Preet Banerjee
Karl Martin is the founder of Nymi, Inc., a company who wants to disrupt the field of "user authentication". In other words, how do you prove "you are you" to a machine? By using a simple password? Do you use the same one for everything? What if you could replace the need for passwords altogether and increase security? That's the goal of the Nymi Band. There are countless applications, including financial transactions at POS terminals as well as for online shopping. Not so good for action movie plot devices, though.