In a bid to curb the misuse of facial recognition technology, the European Commission has revealed that it's considering a ban on the use of facial recognition in public areas for up to 5 years. While the use of facial recognition is on the rise, the European regulators want time to draft rules to prevent...
With the launch of the Pixel 4 series, Google has taken the Apple route and dropped the fingerprint scanner from its flagships. The company now favors facial recognition and has added a slew of sensors in its latest flagships for the purpose. However, Pixel 4 users might have to deal with some issues because of...
The Asus ZenFone 5Z is one of the many cheap Qualcomm Snapdragon 845-powered smartphones available on the market today. It's being hailed as a OnePlus 6 competitor, not just in price, but in performance as well. The company is supporting it well enough so far, and an update has come out which offers a huge...
Since the inception of the smartphone, we have watched dozens of companies try to get their foot in the door and stake their place in the industry. The process has been an ebb and flow. Companies who were considered the best a decade ago are now struggling to make a profit. The reason for this...
Biometric authentication has become increasingly popular since its re-introduction in smartphones in 2013. We have had fingerprint sensors, iris scanners, and 3D facial scanning modules. The Apple iPhone X uses 3D facial scanning in the form of Face ID, while Xiaomi and Oppo have adopted 3D facial scanners in the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition...
At an event in China, Xiaomi has launched the Mi 8, Mi 8 Explorer Edition, and the mid-range Mi 8 SE. The company has also announced MIUI 10, the next version of MIUI. Finally, the Mi Band 3 has been made official.
The highlight of the event was the launch of the Mi 8. This phone...
According to a recent commit on the AOSP Gerrit, native support for facial recognition hardware may be coming in a future version of Android. This comes off of the back of recent commits potentially enabling native support for iris scanning hardware. We've already seen iris scanning implemented by the likes of Samsung originating with the...
Facial recognition has been a feature of Android since Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, and it's always worked as advertised: You unlock your smartphone by staring into the front-facing camera. But it's always been more of a gimmick feature than anything else -- especially since it can be fooled with a picture or video of...
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