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The Reasons Your Shoulder Tension and Emotions are So Connected

January 22, 2019February 2, 2023 Senior EditorCauses Dunleavy, Charleston, Emotion, Energy, energy center, Krishna Das, Organic Authority, smartphones, South Carolina, stagnant energy

Tight shoulders–especially along the trapezius muscle group, which starts at the neck and extends to the mid-back–carries more tension than anywhere else in the entire body. And while your shoulder tension is often linked to stress, that’s only a small piece of the puzzle. According to Darragh Dunleavy, of Trinity Wellness in Charleston, S.C., your tight shoulders and stiff neck may be telling you something on a physical, energetic, and an emotional level. For those of you with chronic tension in this part of the body, it might be time…

That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think

April 11, 2017April 11, 2017 Senior Editoraccess, actual risk, Aditi Roy, Android phones, anti-spoofing techniques, Apple iPhone, Arun Ross, attacker, authors, average phone company, biometric security attacks, biometric security options, broader applicability, cellphone makers, center, Chris Boehnen, Clarkson University, commercially available software, common habit, companies, company spokesman, convenient way, current smartphone vendors, deeper layers, Details, Director, Dr. Boehnen, Dr. Memon, Dr. Ross, engineering, false match, false matches, finger scanners, finger swipe, fingerprint image, fingerprint security, fingerprint security systems, fingerprint technology secret, forefinger, fundamental finding, Google’s Android, government’s Odin, hand, Identification Technology Research, IEEE Transactions, images, impact, Information Forensics, Intelligence Advanced Research, iPhones, iris scanner, larger fingerprint sensor, level, Limitations, magic glove, manager, MasterPrint findings, Michigan State, midrange, N.Y.U.’s Tandon, Nasir Memon, new fingerprint sensor, new Galaxy S8, numeric password, partial fingerprint, partial fingerprints, patterns, percent, personal identification number, perspiration, Phone makers, postdoctoral fellow, professor, Program, Projects Activity, Qualcomm, random phone, real finger, researchers, Ryan James, Samsung, science, security features, skin, smartphones, standard design, Stephanie Schuckers, study, Tandon School, Team, thumb, Times, Touch ID, tries, user, users, various attacks, Ways, work

Full human fingerprints are difficult to falsify, but the finger scanners on phones are so small that they read only partial fingerprints. When a user sets up fingerprint security on an Apple iPhone or a phone that runs Google’s Android software, the phone typically takes eight to 10 images of a finger to make it easier to make a match. And many users record more than one finger — say, the thumb and forefinger of each hand. Photo Sample fingerprints that the researchers at N.Y.U. and Michigan State University…