Snapchat: How you can find out the breed of ANY dog simply by scanning it with your camera

Is this the best Snapchat hack yet? How you can find out the breed of ANY dog simply by scanning it with your camera A TikTok user has revealed a little-known featured on Snapchat  The feature can be used to detect the breed of any type of dog The trick involves opening the app then … Read more

Met Police’s arrested one person after scanning 13,000 people with facial recognition cameras

Facial recognition cameras scanned 13,000 people’s faces but only helped make one arrest, new figures show, as it’s revealed the AI surveillance kit picked out the wrong person seven out of eight times during one deployment.  Met Police used facial recognition technology three times in London last year – but campaigners say it is ‘dangerously … Read more

Lidl launches new scheme to tackle hunger by allowing shoppers to donate food by scanning a flyer

Lidl have launched a new initiative that makes it easier for customers to make food bank donations alongside their usual grocery shopping. The supermarket has announced between 12 November and 9 December, shoppers  can give between 35p and £2.45 by scanning a flyer that represents essential food items, such as milk, tuna or cereal, while paying … Read more

Blood test could determine Covid-19 risk by scanning width of red blood cells 

Blood test that measures the size of a person’s red blood cells could spot people most at risk of falling seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 Scientists have found a link between size of red blood cells and Covid mortality   So-called RDW test measures the size range of a person’s red blood cells  A healthy and … Read more

Meghan Markle looks ‘more trustworthy’ than the Queen, face scanning algorithm reveals

Meghan Markle ‘looks more trustworthy’ than the Queen when comparing their faces, authors of a new study into changes in portraits over 500 years claim. Experts from PSL Research University created an algorithm that scans faces in painted portraits and photographs to determine the trustworthiness of the person.  The authors used the trustworthiness tool to discover … Read more

The world’s largest radio telescope set to commence scanning for alien life in September

The world’s largest single-aperture radio telescope in China will begin scanning the universe for signs of extra terrestrial life and habitable planets in September The five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China set to begin its search for alien life and potentially habitable exoplanets in September  The telescope initially went online in January but there was … Read more

HSBC and Lloyds report thousands more are digitally scanning cheques

Thousands more people are turning to digital cheque scanning as banks encourage them to stay at home and not visit branches, new data suggests. Figures from HSBC and Lloyds, two of Britain’s big four high street banks, revealed the numbers of cheques being digitally deposited using mobile banking apps has surged, while branch footfall has … Read more

Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 may let users sample apps by scanning QR codes before they buy them

Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 may let users sample apps before they buy them by scanning QR codes The feature was discovered in early builds of Apple’s iOS 14 It would allow users to scan QR codes or tap links to get app previews  Once scanned or tapped, the link would display a card-style dynamic preview It … Read more