Your smartphone photos are totally fake -- and you love it

according to Your smartphone photos are totally fake -- and you love ithelloThe little camera on this phone has a superpower: It can see things our eyes cannot. At night for the past few weeks, I've been tromping around dark places taking photos using a new mode on Google's $800 Pixel 3 called Night Sight. Night Sight is a super step forward for smartphone photography - and an example of how our photos are becoming, well, super fake. For now, Night Sight is only a mode that pops up in dark shots on Google's Pixel phones. Night Sight had some difficulty with focus and in scenes with almost no light.

These AI-generated fake fingerprints can fool smartphone security

The researchers tested DeepMasterPrints against the NIST's ink-captured fingerprint dataset and another dataset captured from sensors. Image: New York UniversityPrevious and related coverageOnePlus 6T will have a fingerprint sensor in the screenOnePlus 6T could be the first phone available in the US with an in-screen fingerprint reader. Samsung adds fingerprint sensor to 8-inch foundrySamsung Electronics' contract chip-making business now offers six 8-inch wafer solutions, including a RF/IoT and fingerprint sensor, for its customers. Vivo's Apex has pop-up camera, big in-screen fingerprint readerVivo has showed off some of its answers to the quest for no-bezel smartphones. Choices are not purely technical...Smartphone fingerprint sensor checks body temperature to boost biometric security TechRepublicNew fingerprint sensor detects both tactile pressure and skin temperature to unlock smartphone, according to Nature Communications.

Beware of fake iPhones, smartphone repairman says

as informed in He tells KATV the occasional fake phone will come across his desk, but within the last two months, he's seen them more than ever. "They look real, but there are some signs you can tell that they are not real phones," Wells said. "I felt stupid that I wasn't able to tell it was a real phone, "Julie Bernard said. Wells says fake versions won't have function like real iPhones, and won't have features such as face identification or portrait mode. Wells says another way to tell if a phone is fake is to check the serial number on the back of the phone.

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