Google Wants to Kill Passwords for Android
Google is working on an authentication system called Project Abacus that will eliminate the need for passwords with Android devices.
Project Abacus provides authentication through the way you use your device. Google’s machine-learning capabilities can identify you by learning the way you interact with your phone: the way you type, the way you speak, and by collecting signals from different sensors already present in your device. When Google’s AI puts all of that together, it can tell whether you are who you claim to be.
During the Google I/O summit this year, Google said that it will start trials of Project Abacus with some large financial organizations this summer. Dan Kaufman, head of Google's ATAP (Advanced Technologies and Projects) division, said that if everything goes well, this project should go out to every Android developer by the end of the year. Project Abacus was initially announced at the Google I/O summit last year.
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