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The Los Angeles Times waded into the facial recognition debate with a recent article about PopID, the developer of a new naked payments solution that has started to gain traction in California. Pop Pay is currently available in smaller restaurants like Daddy’s Chicken Shack, and at regional chains like Lemonade. To use Pop Pay, customers […]
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 recent Twitter post from a prominent leaker shows what appears to be the next generation of Motorola’s foldable Razr smartphone without a visible fingerprint scanner, signaling a possible switch over to facial recognition for its form of biometric authentication. The tweet, posted by Evan Blass – popularly known as @evleaks – shows a 3D […]
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 […]
Social media giant Facebook announced that it has launched biometric authentication for its popular Messenger platform on iPhones and iPads. The new feature — called ‘App Lock’ — allows users to secure their conversations behind whatever from of biometric authentication exists on their device, whether it be facial recognition via Face ID or fingerprint recognition […]
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 […]
Unreal Engine has released a new iOS app that makes high-quality 3D motion capture far more accessible. Dubbed Live Link Face, the app utilizes the iPhone’s Face ID TrueDepth Camera and ARKit to capture facial data in real time. That information can be used to animate a digital avatar during a live stream, or saved […]
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 […]
A new Apple patent suggests that the company is still working to enhance its sophisticated facial recognition technology. The patent describes a compact, next-gen apparatus for Apple’s TrueDepth camera system. This is the component of the iPhone that powers Apple’s Face ID authentication system, projecting a grid of infrared light onto a user’s face in […]
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