The future of digital payments may be facial recognition technology
Alibaba recently demonstrated a facial recognition option called 'Smile to Pay' that would let shoppers pay for purchases on their smartphones by scanning their faces.
Alibaba recently demonstrated a facial recognition option called 'Smile to Pay' that would let shoppers pay for purchases on their smartphones by scanning their faces.
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Thanks to Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, we will probably be able to make payments using facial recognition technology. The company recently demonstrated a facial recognition option called ‘Smile to Pay’ that would let shoppers pay for purchases on their smartphones by scanning their faces.
Whilst demonstrating the new feature during a presentation at CeBIT conference in Hanover, Germany on Sunday, Jack Ma, co-founder and chairman of Alibaba, announced: “Online payment to buy things is always a big headache…Today we show you a new technology in the future of how people can buy things online.”
A rep for Alibaba told Mashable the feature is “still in development” with no firm launch date.
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