Tech News Today 1751

MasterCard is working on a fingerprint sensor that's built into your physical credit or debit card and will work with the chip to verify your in-person purchases.

The Google Assistant built into the Google Home speaker can now recognize multiple different voices and deliver a specific info to the person it recognizes - like plane flight info and calendar entries. Up to six different voices can be recognized by a Google Home speaker, but each voice still has to be tied to a different Google Account.

Toyota and others have invested $45 million in a company called Getaround, which people are calling the AirBnb for cars. You can use an app to reserve, locate, pay for and even unlock a stranger's car so you can drive it for a while.

We also discuss Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's investment choices and the ethics of Instagram influencers. Plus, Rolfe Winkler from The Wall Street Journal is here to tell us how one security company chose to show its clients information in live demos and we talk about Elon Musk's new startup that wants to fuse your brain with AI so we no longer need to talk to share our thoughts.

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Links

• MasterCard adds fingerprint sensors to payment cards
• You Can Now Add Multiple Users To Google Home
• Getaround raises $45M from Toyota and others to build more partnerships
• Palmer Luckey gave $100K to Trump inauguration using Chrono Trigger shell company
• Celebrities on Instagram warned by FTC over paid ads
• Why Snapchat's Influencer Economy Runs on Hot Tubs, Selfies, and Whey Protein
• Cybersecurity Startup Tanium Exposed California Hospital’s Network in Demos Without Permission
• neuralink.com
• Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
• Kendrick Lamar Has Become an Unlikely Streaming Juggernaut