Health insurer Australian Health Management deployed a biometric voice recognition system that has enabled the firm's customers to avoid any authentication-related questions which usually precede an account query or claim.
The federal government is commissioning a trial of voice authentication technology to see whether it is mature enough for use by its agencies.
Chinese engineers have allegedly cracked Skype's Internet telephony protocol, according to a Thursday blog posting.
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