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Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story
The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the…
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