face ID
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The New Expensive iPhone Is Better Than the Old Expensive iPhones
For much of my smartphone-owning adulthood, I was an iPhone “S” year upgrader, due almost entirely to my relationship with my mobile carrier. My first iPhone was a 3GS, which I got for peanuts with my Cingular contract. (Yes, Cingular.) I was eligible to upgrade to a new phone every other year, at which point…
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Apple Analyst Predicts Big Changes Coming to the iPhone 14 and Beyond
Even though the iPhone 13 was just announced last week, that isn’t stopping noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from releasing some very interesting predictions for future upgrades coming to the iPhone 14 and beyond.
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AI Tracks Lawmakers Using Their Phones on the Job so We Can Properly Mock Them
Politicians are hereby busted for using their cell phones during sessions, thanks to software written by Belgium artist Dries Depoorter. His artificial intelligence program “The Flemish Scrollers” reviews YouTube live streams of Flemish government meetings and identifies who’s on their phone along with their face and Twitter handle. It then tweets clips for our amusement,…
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How Making a Funny Face Could Boost the Security of Face Unlock Features
Securing a device using your face is much easier than remembering a PIN or password, but the technology is not infallible. There are many tricks that can be used to circumvent various facial recognition security systems (including just a static photo of your face), but researchers have developed a new algorithm that could change that…