Goodbye passwords — Google launches selfie logins
Google has launched a new way for users to log into their accounts: facial recognition scans via video selfies.
The new feature was announced in a blog post on Thursday, 23 July 2026, where Google posted a video showing how it could help people...
Fixing South Africa's RICA mess
Taking selfies and using biometrics to verify identities during SIM card registrations could help stop SIM-swap fraud, saving South Africans who bank on their phones billions of rands a year.
This is according to Johan van Graan, a telecommunications security...
Celebrity “no make-up selfies” raise cash for wrong charity
A social media craze involving women around the world posting selfies while wearing no make-up has raised millions of pounds for a British cancer charity