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“…the iPad features a home button with a built-in Touch ID fingerprint sensor.” Apple has brought its A12 Bionic chip to the iPad, but the device’s biometric capabilities remain more or less unchanged. The new tablet device was announced in Apple’s big annual media event this week, alongside a new iPad Air and other device […]
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published an Apple patent application that would bring new biometric features to the Touch Bar in Mac and MacBook computers. As reported by Patently Apple, The patent is technically a continuation patent, and adds 20 new claims to a pre-existing Apple filing. The most noteworthy of those claims […]
The Chairman of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is asking Apple to come up with a better form of iPhone authentication. The agency is particularly worried about Face ID, insofar as the poor performance of the facial recognition platform is making it more difficult for transit riders to comply with safety guidelines during the […]
A newly published Apple patent application offers a glimpse at an improved version of the dot projector that is currently used to power the Face ID authentication system. As its name would suggest, the dot projector is able to project up to 30,000 dots of light onto a surface in a near-field range, which in […]
A new report suggests that Apple is planning to bring Face ID to its Mac computers. At the moment, the facial recognition solution is only available on certain iOS devices, though the tech giant has hinted at the possibility of Face ID on Mac computers in prior patent applications. The latest rumor comes courtesy of […]
After much speculation, a new rumor suggests that Apple is finally ready to bring biometric capabilities to its AirPod line of products. The next generation is expected to arrive in the second half of 2021, and could include a heart rate monitor in addition to other sensors. Apple has tacitly hinted at the possibility of […]
Apple filed a patent this week that looks to improve upon facial recognition by mapping the unique vein patterns beneath a person’s face. The patent — titled “Vein matching for difficult biometric authentication cases” — calls for the use of an infrared sensor to capture sub-epidermal vein patterns beneath the user’s face in a 3D […]
Apple is trying to patent a system that would prevent screen burn in mobile devices with in-display fingerprint sensors. The application arrives shortly after Samsung filed a patent for a similar system that automatically adjusts pixel brightness during a fingerprint scan. The Apple solution relies on temperature compensation rather than pixel brightness. To that end, […]
Tech giant Apple has announced that the latest version of its Safari web browser will be equipped with the option of allowing users to log in to certain websites with biometrics via Apple’s Face ID or Touch ID. Safari 14’s new features, which will ship with the new iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur operating […]
At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week, Apple announced a new service for its new iOS 14 called Car Key, a wireless solution that allows users to unlock their car using an iPhone or Apple Watch and biometric authentication. According to Apple the new service will initially work via near-field communication (NFC), though it […]
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