What exactly is “Payments at the Edge?” Well, over the next two days, PYMNTS will be joined by those looking to chip away at that very question. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Only around 70 Kazakh eagle hunters take part in the annual Golden Eagle festival in Mongolia and this breathtaking collection displays the 4,000-year-old art in all of its glory. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Biometric security—using characteristics of our bodies to verify who we are—is becoming commonplace. Sourced through Scoop.it from: qz.com

SmartMetric’s biometric payments card fits a fully functional fingerprint reader inside an EMV smart card. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.biometricupdate.com

Ear scanning biometrics solves a key authentication problem – it lets someone verify who you are continuously, instead of at a specific moment. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.weforum.org

Biometrics have come to Microsoft Outlook’s latest batch of updates for iOS. Apple’s Touch ID feature is now included in Outlook meaning users have a bit m Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.sitepronews.com

The ‘Image analysis for user authentication’ patent was awarded to the Washington-based firm this week. It uses facial recognition and a ‘living’ check to verify a human is trying to make a payment. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

In his yearly set of predictions published in January, Moz co-founder Rand Fishkin predicted that “The big trends for 2016: Wearables, VR, smart home, and Internet of Things will have almost no imp… Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.business2community.com

Markets are watching central banks; central banks are watching markets. Is either side getting a good picture? Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.wsj.com

A smaller, cheaper iPhone and an update to the iPad Air 2 are likely to headline the announcements for next week’s event. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.cnet.com