Future of facial recognition: Only the Beginning(Here’s What to Expect Next in Biometrics on Your Phone)
With the introduction of the iPhone X, Apple shined a new spotlight on an(at least 20 years old) technology that has never worked well on the phone: facial recognition for things like unlocking and paying with the device. It's a big bet, but one that may very well pay off--and pave the way for easier-to-use, more secure (recording something about the body) technology of all kinds in phones of the future. Apple has a desire for adding future-facing features to the iPhone a little later than other phone makers, but it markets them so slickly that they seem like shiny must-haves if you don't already have them. Facial-recognition technology has been around for years, and is available in some phones, like Samsung's (large star system/large group of things) S8. What's out there usually hasn't worked well, though--for one thing, it's been shown to be easily imitated with something as simple as a photo of the phone owner's face. High tech software compa...
