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You can now use your phone to get started with Amazon’s palm-reading tech

Amazon just released an app that scans customer’s palms from home, making for an easy signup to its One payment platform. This service allows users to pay for stuff with just their palms at retail locations like Whole Foods.

Amazon just launched an app that lets people sign up for its palm recognition service without having to head to an in-store kiosk. The tech uses generative AI to analyze a palm's vein structure, turning the data into a “unique numerical, vector representation” which is recognized by scanning machines at retail locations. The company also says the app “includes additional layers of spoof detection,” noting that it’s not possible to save or download palm images to the phone itself.

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