When creating an iCloud account, you can use any email-based Apple ID or your existing iCloud account.

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Apple hasn't been as direct about what's going on, but Wired believes there's been a 24-hour hold on phone-based Apple ID password resets while the company marshals its resources and decides how much extra strictness is required.

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This leads to the fact that if a copy is correct, security systems based on object ID verification are not capable of distinguishing between the two.

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Upgrades to the SpareOnePlus include a location-based service which identifies the exact location of the cell ID, accessible through a free smartphone app, as well as audible numeric feedback which reads the number dialed and incoming calls aloud.

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In Moscow old-age pensioners carry a chip-based smart card from Visa that acts as a subway pass and id card and affords them discounts at pharmacies.

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This development is made possible by a new wave of technology: radio-frequency ID chips the size of pepper grains, broadband wireless and Web-based "dashboards" enabling monitoring and management.

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky will enable state VROs to access to the Electronic Verification of Vital Events hub (a web based portal) to verify birth and death record information of individuals applying for a REAL ID driver's licenses and identification cards.

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Based in Kapolei, HI, Hoku, which is also building a polysilicon plant in Pocatello, ID, has contracts with Solar-Fabrik and Sanyo Electric.

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