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soon we'll be making duck face to buy some duct tape I'm Bridget Carey this is your C net update when passwords can be easily compromised perhaps the safest way to shop online is by using a selfie to pay that's the idea behind amazon's latest patent it filed a patent application for a process to let shoppers make a purchase by taking a photo or video of themselves it's just another type of biometric password to prove it's really you but the concept isn't new right now you can unlock a Windows 10 computer by living its scan your face and MasterCard has also begun using selfies to validate online purchases in some countries so how do you stop someone from just pointing the phone camera at an old photo or video of your face well Amazon would tell you to blink smile or move your head at a certain time to prove you are a real human soon we may be in a world where we're too lazy to type in a password in fact there are many tech companies out to help those of us that are too lazy to do all sorts of things take eBay for example eBay announced a partnership with the app ship that's spelled SH YP sellers in certain US metro areas can request someone from ship to come by in 20 minutes and pack and Mail sold items normally ship charges five dollars for the service but the fee is waived for eBay users until the end of June eBay is facing a ton of competition from other apps that want to make it easy to sell your stuff like Poshmark urinal Listia and offer up to name a few so the battle is now over which service can make it easiest for you to sell stuff eBay's ship partnership is only for New York Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles for now and because we're too busy with online shopping and selfies we have no time for household chores so iRobot the makers of the Roomba have come out with a brand new tiny mopping robot that can get into the nooks and crannies of your kitchen bathroom and other hard to reach places on hard floors it's the Bravo jet 240 and it's a step down from the previous model because it covers a smaller area and it can really run one room at a time it uses pre-mixed detergent in disposable pads is only $200 making it the cheapest robot cleaning machine ever released by the company another reason though why it's so cheap is that you'll have to charge the battery yourself it's like a motorized Swiffer it does dry sweeping damp sweeping and wet mopping if you're interested hang tight for us to do some testing on it for the full review but you'll start to see it in stores in April that's it for this tech news update you can head to cnet.com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey