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The early stages of making this happen are underway, though challenges remain. IDEMIA began testing a Mobile Driver's License (mDL) with the state of Iowa in 2015. A test with Delaware came later and another will soon start up in Oklahoma.
In 2016, Gemalto received a two-year grant from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to pilot smartphone-based digital driver’s licenses in Colorado, Idaho, Maryland, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C.
Gemalto’s digital driver’s license, or DDL, was issued by the department of motor vehicles in the pilot states. Among the benefits is the fact that DDLs can more easily and quickly be updated with address changes. If the phone is lost or stolen, the license can be wiped remotely before a new digital version is issued. ...
IDEMIA's mobile license aims to protect privacy in a similar manner. "When I go to show my (physical) driver's license today, I'm basically disclosing my name, my address, my full date of birth, a lot of personally identifiable information that isn't needed to enable that transaction," says Matt Thompson, a senior vice...
Another privacy precaution: The DMV that issues the digital license cannot track you as you drive around.
Moreover, if you are pulled over by law enforcement on the highway, you’ll remain in possession of the phone since the officer can access your credentials wirelessly via Bluetooth Low Energy.
Of course, since motorists drive from one state to another, any digital license that is issued must ultimately be interoperable elsewhere. The technical specifications are still being hammered out.
Transit cards present another opportunity for the digital wallet, but it is slow going so far, especially in the U.S. For now, you can use Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay on your phone to ride buses and trains in Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
In May, New York’s MTA system will start phasing in a system that will accept mobile wallets on buses and subway turnstiles, even as the MTA is committed to keeping the current MetroCard system in place until 2023.
But last spring, the UTA system in Utah pulled support for Apple Pay, Google Pay, as well as contactless credit cards, over extremely low usage, and the millions of dollars it would cost to upgrade the system to accept such payments.
For all its versatility as a potential full-time replacement for the physical wallet, your phone in some cases can also unlock your front door and car door. Maybe there’s no reason to panic if you leave your keys behind, too.
Email: ebaig@usatoday.com; Tweet @edbaig and let us know whether you feel comfortable leaving your wallet behind.
North Topsail Landing, a premier mixed purpose community to be located on 75 +/- acres across NC HWY 210 from the new Dixon Middle School in Sneads Ferry North Carolina is designed to be welcoming and family-friendly community, with public green space for children’s activities, socializing, and informal gathering. The ...
Crime writer Elmore Leonard, who suffered a stroke last month, died Tuesday morning at his Bloomfield Village home near Detroit. He was 87.
A posting on his website read, "Elmore passed away this morning at 7:15 AM at home surrounded by his loving family."
Publicist Gregg Suttertweeted news of the author's death on Tuesday morning.
The National Book Foundation honored Leonard with a lifetime achievement in November 2012. He penned 45 novels during his lifetime.
Many of his books – notably "Out of Sight," "Get Shorty" and "Be Cool" – have become films.
Leonard was a fan of the Greenfield band The Stone Coyotes, whose music is central to the novel "Be Cool." He dedicated the 292-page book to the band.
According to lead singer and guitarist Barbara Keith, Leonard was looking for a band to serve as inspiration for “Be Cool,” his sequel to “Get Shorty,” when he he took in their show at the Los Angeles club Troubador in 1998.
“From what we’re told, he turned to his assistant and said, ‘That’s it,’” Keith said.
Leonard loved the band’s energy and it’s rock’n roll twang. He especially liked the stories their songs told.
“That’s a tremendous compliment coming from a writer of his caliber,” Keith said.
A Deerfield native, Keith lives in Greenfield with her husband Doug Tibbles, the band’s drummer. Tibbles’ son John, the third member of the group, travels back and forth from Los Angeles.
Leonard wove lyrics from several Stone Coyotes songs into “Be Cool” and asked the band to write the song “Odessa” for his character Linda Moon, who came from that Texas town. Although the Stone Coyotes now tour extensively in Texas, they had never played there.
“We told him now we’re living out your book,” Keith said.
Although Leonard made ample use of his poetic license, Keith said there were similarities between the band in "Be Cool" and hers.
"They were uncompromising and dedicated to their spare, stripped down sound," she said. "The drummer played in bare feet and used marching sticks!"
The relationship between the Stone Coyotes and Leonard remained strong over the years. They occasionally toured together, with Leonard reading from his work at clubs and the band playing. The Stone Coyotes even went to Detroit, where Leonard lived.
"He played jazz for us and we played 'guess the artist,'" she said. "He told us how he wrote four pages a day in longhand and had his daughter type them up. We had dinners together and laughed a lot."
“Not only was he such a good man, he was completely a real person in his writing and in his humanity,” she said.
Leonard spent much of his childhood in Detroit and set many of his novels there. Others were set near his North Palm Beach, Fla., vacation home.
The father of five, Leonard was married three times.
Card. Turkson, Justice and Peace, and the Custodian of the Holy Land for the fourth edition of the Day. Prayers and Eucharistic adoration, Mass at Calvary in Jerusalem. Angelus with the Pope.
Rockhampton trainer Tim Cook’s sights set on Mackay before a look up towards Cairns.
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ROCKHAMPTON trainer Tim Cook has Cannon Park ambitions with gelding I Can I Will I Am and is hoping to collect a $100,000 Mackay Cup on the way.
With Cairns hoop Sonja Wiseman in the saddle, Cook opted to bypass last week’s Rockhampton Cup to target today’s 1800m feature event at Mackay Turf Club.
After Rockhampton’s two-day carnival last week, the Northern Crowns continue at Mackay today with the running of the $100,000 Mackay Cup and $75,000 Mackay Newmarket.
In five starts this preparation, I Can I Will I Am is yet to break through for a win but has won before over 1800m.
Cannon Park-based jockey Wiseman has a positive association with the horse and was on board for a last-start second at Rockhampton over 1600m.
“Sonja has ridden the horse in her last two starts and has done nothing wrong on him,” Cook said.
“The horse goes well for her and she is riding my horses pretty well at the moment.
“A bit of confidence helps her.
Cook will press on to the Far North following today’s run towards the Cairns Cup on day two of the carnival on Saturday, August 11.
“Mackay this week and the Cairns Cup and maybe Cairns Amateurs are my main aims with the horse,” Cook said.
“Going forward, I would like to keep Sonja on but she might have to jump on one of Trevor Rowe’s.
Cook and Wiseman will also combine in the Newmarket with the in-form Avonaco.
Wiseman takes six rides this afternoon while Tablelands hoop Wanderson D’Avila is engaged six times, including Far North in the Cup for Mackay trainer John Manzelmann.
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man is charged with murdering a 15-year-old girl and setting her body on fire after they met on Facebook, according to WPVI.
Cole Swaringer-Herring, 23, faces murder, arson and other charges in connection with the death of Sabriya McLean.
According to police, the suspect met McLean in person on Monday night after the two were reportedly communicating on Facebook.
The suspect confessed to his parents, according to WPVI. After the suspect’s parents contacted police, responding officers found the victim’s body under a pile of leaves.
“It was a very violent act so we’re looking at him in connection to some other possible cases that we’ve had,” Capt. Jack Ryan told WPVI.
Capt. Ryan told CBS Philly Herring burned the victim’s body before hiding it under leaves. The suspect faces “abuse of a corpse” charges in addition to murder charges.
The suspect’s motive is not yet known. The investigation is ongoing.
If storms linger, the biggest threats are heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds. Hail and tornadoes are unlikely.
As of Sunday morning, North Texas has had has had 2.62 inches of rain in June, more than an inch above normal.
No rain was recorded through the first two weeks of June last year, according to the National Weather Service.
The middle of the week looks hot but dry for North Texas. Friday and Saturday could bring more potential for rain.
What is exploding head syndrome?
Odd sensation is relatively common and may be linked to sleep paralysis and open-eyed dreaming.
April 1, 2015, 10:39 a.m.
Have you ever been woken up by a loud and startling noise, felt like an explosion had taken place inside your head, and then found that all was quiet and still around you? If so, you might have exploding head syndrome.
Obviously, in this situation your head doesn't really explode. The syndrome is named after the uncomfortable sensation that some people feel, sometimes as they are in the process of falling asleep.
Researchers at Washington State University looked into the phenomenon after realizing how little information had been collected on it. The university researchers interviewed 211 undergraduate students and discovered that 18 percent, or roughly one out of five students, had experienced loud noises inside their heads. Th...
As if exploding head syndrome wasn’t strange enough, about one-third of the students who experienced it also had gone through isolated sleep paralysis, another bizarre sensation during which a person cannot move or speak while waking up. Those who suffer from this condition sometimes dream with their eyes open. The res...
Since exploding head syndrome is prone to happen when someone is falling asleep, the researchers hypothesize that the jarring experience is connected to the brain shutting down. Sharpless compares the brain to a computer shutting down with motor, auditory and visual neurons powering off one by one. Rather than turning ...
“That’s why you get these crazy-loud noises that you can’t explain, and they’re not actual noises in your environment,” he added.
Real or not, the sudden burst of sound can be quite alarming. Some who are afflicted believe that they have experienced a seizure or bleeding in the brain.
Sharpless also believes that certain conspiracy theories (think alien abductions) can be tied to the disorder.
“Some people have worked these scary experiences into conspiracy theories and mistakenly believe the episodes are caused by some sort of directed-energy weapon,” said Sharpless.
Those with isolated sleep paralysis may believe they are seeing real things since their eyes are open, even though they are just experiencing a waking dream. Sharpless thinks that could explain those who were certain they saw otherworldly beings such as witches or demons during the Middle Ages.
According to the researchers, due to the fear and uncertainty that surrounds these disorders, some people don’t even tell their spouse.
At the moment there is no cure. “Unfortunately for this minority of individuals, no well-articulated or empirically supported treatments are available, and very few clinicians or researchers assess for it,” explained Sharpless.
A Palestinian woman rammed her car into a West Bank checkpoint on Friday, wounding two Israelis before being shot dead, Israel's army said.
An army statement said the attack happened at the entrance to the settlement of Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank and that "forces on site fired towards the attacker, resulting in her death."
It added that the wounded Israelis, a couple in their 50s, were taken to hospital in Jerusalem.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the assailant as Majd al-Khudur, from Bani Naim, close to Kiryat Arba settlement.
The settlement is near the West Bank city of Hebron, which has long been a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A few hundred Jewish settlers live under heavy army guard among several hundred thousand Palestinians in the heart of the West Bank's most populous city.
Violence since October has killed at least 210 Palestinians, 32 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.
Most of the Palestinians were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities.
Poland's President Andrzej Duda tells a news conference he has decided to sign two laws that will put courts under more political control even though they are part of a review a concerned European Union is conducting in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 20, 2017.
Poland's populist government remained defiant Thursday in the face of a European Commission decision to trigger a legal procedure that could lead to Poland losing EU voting rights.
The unprecedented move by the commission to invoke an article 7 process to deter the Polish government from tightening political control over the judiciary was met with bravado by the country's president, Andrzej Duda, who in a television address said he would go ahead and sign two controversial reform laws, adding to ...
Duda was careful in his late Wednesday address, though, not to repeat some of the more fiery responses from Warsaw that have characterized the two-year-long confrontation between Warsaw and Brussels over the changes made by the country's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS).
"We're bringing in very good solutions in Poland that will serve to improve the justice system,"he said.
Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, also was careful with his wording in defending the actions of his government.
On Twitter he wrote, "Poland is as devoted to the rule of law as the rest of the EU."But he added,"Judiciary reform is deeply needed."
The signing of the measures, which critics say effectively places the Polish courts in the grip of the governing party, now sets the stage for a deepening crisis in the heart of Europe and threatens to divide the EU, east from west.
The European Commission says the two laws undermine the legal standards expected of member countries and amount to a"serious breach" of the rule of law. Other critics bemoan what they say is a turning of the clock back to the authoritarianism that Poland endured under Communism.
As the commission announced it was triggering an article 7 process, Poland's Justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, continued to purge senior judges, dismissing some by fax.
"We have to continue with the reforms of the justice system,"he told reporters.
Article 7 was added to the EU's founding treaty in 1999, allowing for sanctions to be imposed on a member country for breaching democratic rights. The article has never been invoked before, although the commission has threatened several times to use it in the past.
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Dec. 20, 2017.
In announcing the EU decision, Frans Timmermans, the commission's first vice-president, said it was doing so"with a heavy heart"due to the adoption of several measures since the PiS came into power,"which put at serious risk [the] independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers in Poland."
Brussels rejects the Polish government's claim it is modernizing the judiciary and the courts. Timmermans said Wednesday the reforms should be in accordance with Poland's constitution and EU law.
"If the application of the rule of law is left completely to individual member states, then the whole of the EU will suffer," he said.
EU officials say that membership of the bloc requires states to observe the legal standards and norms agreed by all.

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