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Facial recognition, the security of the 21st century?

'Por la jeta' is a colloquial phrase that means free. In fact, jeta is collected in the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy and is a synonym of face. So having a lot of fashion is fashionable and is the fault of the 'smartphones, specifically Apple and its FaceID, which to date seemed incorruptible. But no. Nor can all the credit be credited to the engineers of the Cupertino giant. Already in the sixties were born the first systems that recognized faces and that today we know as facial biometrics, which is what the great technology announced with pomp and fanfare in recent months. These early systems were capable of capturing features of the face such as eyes, ears, nose or even mouth. Due to the poor advances in this field in those years, the device was only able to take a small reference and compare it with a given pattern. This was the basis to begin to plant the pillars of facial biometrics and build a safety environment. With the new millennium, technological...
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Making the iPhone X costs Apple $ 314

This year marks ten of the release of Apple's first iPhone and the giant of Cupertino has thrown the rest to commemorate such an exceptional date. The gift for the fans of Apple has been the iPhone X, a mobile without frames and with facial recognition. A new model that exceeds 1,000 euros of price in stores and that come out, especially, from the new Samsung AMOLED screens, mounted for the first time in the iPhone range, and by the FaceID technology. In the presentation of last September, this new iPhone came accompanied also by version 8 of Apple's smartphones. Its price around 800 euros and less changes with respect to its predecessor: the iPhone 7. The manufacturing cost of version 8 is significantly lower than that of the iPhone X, 216 euros compared to the 314 dollars of the latter, according to IHS Markit data. Of course, the price does not count the hours of assembly, so both would rise. "Apple is paying a premium for OLED technology," said Wayne Lam, an...
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Candy Crush, five years crossing sweets

1999259792. This figure is the highest score ever achieved in Candy Crush Saga, how many hours of play? How many levels? Many questions and many figures accumulates this game that this Tuesday celebrates its fifth anniversary and that on more than one occasion has brought boredom to its followers. The inaugural game of the franchise, Candy Crush Saga, created by Sebastian Knutsson and a small team in Stockholm, was launched for mobile phones in November 2012. With more than 2,800 levels and rising, more than 1.1 billion games have been played in global Five years later two new games have been released as part of the franchise, Candy Crush Soda Saga and Candy Crush Jelly Saga. "We are very excited to be able to share this special milestone with our players around the world," says King's creative director. "The last five years have been incredible and we are very lucky to have so many fans. A simple mobile game that consists of crossing sweets. Since its launch i...
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Tesla presents an electric truck with 800 km of autonomy

This morning, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has presented his first semi-trailer electric truck. 800 kilometers of autonomy, 36,300 kilograms of maximum weight and that reaches 100 kilometers per hour in 5 seconds. This is the presentation card of Tesla Semi. Of course, the date of arrival on the roads is unknown, although "may be reserved from 2019". The truck has a futuristic design, with the seat and steering wheel centered in the cabin and two screens on the sides of the steering wheel. In addition, it will be semi-autonomous. Although Musk has defended that his truck will be 20% cheaper per kilometer than a diesel, the latter can travel about 1,600 kilometers with a full tank, twice the range of the Tesla vehicle. New Roadster Although all eyes in this event in Los Angeles were directed to the presentation of this electric truck, Tesla has surprised with a sports car with a range of 1,000 kilometers. "The fastest production car ever made," says Elon Musk. T...
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The car, the perfect vehicle to infect the smart city

Approximately, 60% of humanity will live in smart cities in the next decade. Large cities based and built around technology and where each device, whether a smartphone, a traffic light or a car will be connected to the internet and also to the network of networks, according to experts from Panda Security. Connection to which the security systems of large cities must prepare themselves and face new challenges in this area. The researchers of the antivirus company have raised a scenario of Ancient Greece, what would happen if a case like the Trojan horse were repeated. If this were the case, the infection of the virus would be like pollination. When all the Internet connections of a device are closed, the viruses need something or someone to transport them and deposit them in another place. Although the biggest attack vector in this area is the Internet, Panda Security researchers point out that you have to be careful with elements that are not, apparently connected to the network, a...
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