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Jaybird headphones land in Oz and there’s no place like home

“Everyone told me I was crazy.” This is a pretty standard line from entrepreneurs and founders in the tech industry. But when Judd Armstrong, founder of wireless headphone company Jaybird, says it I believe him more than most. He’s Australian, from the Gold Coast, and has a casual, no nonsense attitude that frames him as …

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Biometric app downloads set to soar in next four years, study shows

A little glue goes a long way in fooling a fingerprint scanner. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Mobile applications that rely on biometrics — everything from fingerprint scanning to facial recognition — are set to take off in the next four years, according to new data released Tuesday from Juniper Research. The research firm predicts that in 2015 mobile users worldwide …

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