Unlocking the Galaxy S9 might be faster — but that doesn’t mean it’s more secure. Samsung’s newest smartphones, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, include a new feature the company calls Intelligent Scan. The technology combines Samsung’s secure iris scanner with its less-secure facial recognition unlock technology. When unlocking your phone, it first will scan …
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The flood gates are open. After a slew of rumors and renders of the Samsung Galaxy S9 surfaced recently, in anticipation of the phone’s announcement on Feb. 25, rumors of some key new features have surfaced. The info comes from an APK teardown of the latest Android Oreo beta for the Galaxy Note 8, done by SamCentral. Similar to the HomePod …
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Clues about the next iPad may be hiding in Apple’s latest mobile software. Filipe Esposito, editor in chief of iHelpBR, tweeted that he found a reference to an “iPad_Modern” in the code for the developer preview of iOS 11.3. Apple used “Modern iPhone” as a placeholder to describe the iPhone X before its release, suggesting that this iPad could get …
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I open the Amazon Go app on my phone, scan a QR code on top of the white turnstile and watch as electronic arms open to let me in. Glancing around the convenience store, which is bustling with Amazon employees shopping for lunch items, I head left to the cold drinks section, grab a can of Diet Pepsi and exit …
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In addition to a slew of new laptops and computers, Asus announced a new Android phone at CES 2018. Known as the ZenFone Max Plus, the phone will be available in North America from February. In the US it will cost $229 (converted, that’s about £175 or AU$300) for the model with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage. This is the …
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You never want to lose your luggage. But what if luggage didn’t lose you? Combine self-driving tech with facial recognition and camera AI smarts, put it on a carry-on suitcase, and you have yourself the CX-1. Made by Chinese company ForwardX, the hands-free autonomous carry-on luggage followed me around like a puppy during a demo at the CES 2018 show …
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With its newest ThinkPad X, T and L series business laptops and two-in-ones, Lenovo is doing a little extra to keep peepers and creepers from getting at you and your data. Along with match-on-sensor touch fingerprint readers and IR cameras for facial recognition to make sign-ins easy while keeping your system secure, Lenovo has added physical webcam covers to the …
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Wallets could become a thing of the past in China. Starting next year, the Chinese will no longer have to worry about leaving their identity cards at home, as long as they’re registered users on WeChat. On Monday, the Guangzhou government in China released the country’s first batch of “WeChat identity cards.” They’ll allow citizens to verify their identities through facial …
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Worried about someone is using Facebook’s facial recognition technology to replace their profile picture with your face? Now there’s a setting for that. The social media giant will soon roll out “optional tools to help people better manage their identity on Facebook using face recognition,” according to a blog post by Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, its director of applied machine learning. …
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Apple bills the iPhone X as “the smartphone of the future.” But we’re sitting here tinkering with the iPhone X now, and can’t help but to wonder what’s next. Fortunately, the new features of the iPhone X — the TrueDepth camera, Face ID and even the new, bezel-less design — offer hints of where the iPhone may go next. This …
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