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The venue code (left) and digital sentry (right) used in Shanghai, China. The check-in code or the venue code ( Chinese: 场所 码, Chǎngsuǒgmǎ) is a QR code to record check-in locations for contact tracing and epidemiologic investigations. It was widely used in Australia and China during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022.
The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...
Secure multi-party computation (also known as secure computation, multi-party computation ( MPC) or privacy-preserving computation) is a subfield of cryptography with the goal of creating methods for parties to jointly compute a function over their inputs while keeping those inputs private. Unlike traditional cryptographic tasks, where ...
Using the CT markers of visceral fat, subcutaneous fat, muscle mass, liver density, and aortic calcium, researchers were able to determine a person’s type 2 diabetes risk. Scientists found that ...
Clone phishing is a type of attack where a legitimate email with an attachment or link is copied and modified to contain malicious content. The modified email is then sent from a fake address made to look like it's from the original sender. The attack may appear to be a resend or update of the original email.
A QR code payment is a mobile payment method where payment is performed by scanning a QR code from a mobile app. [1] This is an alternative to doing electronic funds transfer at point of sale using a payment terminal. [2] This avoids a lot of the infrastructure traditionally associated with electronic payments such as payment cards, payment ...
The genome and proteins of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) have been the subject of extensive research since the discovery of the virus in 1983. [1] [2] "In the search for the causative agent, it was initially believed that the virus was a form of the Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV), which was known at the time to affect the human immune system and cause certain leukemias.
Tick bites: Lone star ticks carrying a mysterious and rare virus, which can cause fatal illness, have been found in at least six states in the U.S. Tick linked to dangerous virus in people now ...