Stripe adds card issuing, localized card networks and expanded approvals tool

At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach. The company today announced that it will now offer card issuing services directly to businesses to let them in turn make credit cards for customers tailored to specific purposes. Alongside that, it’s going […] Continue reading Stripe adds card issuing, localized card networks and expanded approvals tool

Let The Cards Fall Where They May, With A Robotic Rain Main

Finally,  a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table.

The system that [Edje Electronics] has built, dubbed “Rain Man 2.0” in homage to the classic title character created by …read more

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Seasons Greetings? Not When That’s Malware In Your e-Card

Over Christmas, one of our customers was hit by a Trojan and they asked us to take a look at the threat. Sixteen of their users were fooled into opening a Word document. Fortunately, they had Bromium, so it safely ran inside a micro-VM and was unable t… Continue reading Seasons Greetings? Not When That’s Malware In Your e-Card

A Raspberry Pi Rain Man in the Making

We see a lot of Raspberry Pis used to play games, but this is something entirely different from the latest RetroPie build. This Raspberry Pi is learning how to read playing cards, with the goal of becoming the ultimate card counting blackjack player.

If [Taxi-guy] hasn’t named his project Rain Man, we humbly suggest that he does so. Because a Pi that can count into a six-deck shoe would be quite a thing, even though it would never be allowed anywhere near a casino. Hurdle number one in counting cards is reading them, and [Taxi-guy] has done a solid job …read more

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The Sometimes Surprising But Always Interesting Delve Results

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Delve makes it easy to find documents and other items stored in Office 365. Sometimes some surprising results show up after a search. Maybe Microsoft needs to adjust some filters!

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