Tag: face
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Mortal Kombat X PC mod reveals Jason’s maskless face – and it’s not that great.
We were thrilled when it was announced that Friday the 13th’s maim man Jason Voorhees would be making his debut in the Mortal Kombat franchise as a downloadable character in the newest game. With an on-screen killing spree spanning 35 years, 10 gore-soaked sequels, a fairly decent remake and with a career body count of…
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Google Teases Android L Security Features
Google’s new version of Android, Android L, or Lollipop, is set to become the latest and greatest addition to the Google smartphone OS lineup. of course, other, older Android systems will be lingering around on the market in various capacities once Lollipop arrives, but as far as Google’s concerned the new OS represents the current…
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Amazon Fire Phone Coming to UK on O2
Amazon’s new Fire Phone, with its revolutionary set of four face sensing front cameras, is currently only available for customers in the United States since its launch a number of weeks ago on AT&T. The phone is Amazon’s most noteworthy foray into the technology market, and has taken its sweet time to arrive in the…
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Samsung Watchphone Device Incoming
Samsung has been pretty much the front runner in the wearable market of late, even having wearables either on release or already out before this whole thing started. But now it seems, after a rumor that the company was making a smartwatch with its own SIM card, that the company is close to revealing the…
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‘iWatch’ Rumour Mill Keeps On Turning
The rumours and speculation on an alleged ‘wearable computer’ from Apple, aka the ‘iWatch’ (May not be actual product name) are running rife throughout the internet and of course amongst hushed groups of tech devotees as they gather around wi-fi hotspots across the globe. The ‘iWatch’ is purported to be a hybrid watch/computer worn on…
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Pebble Smartwatch Developer Kit Coming in April – Retro Super Mario Clock Face Demoed!
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New SDK available for the innovative and versatile Pebble Smartwatch this April. Compatible with Andoird and Apple iOS.
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Facebook Buys Face.com – Does Facial Recognition Database Pose New Threat to Our Online Safety?
Following a recent $1-billion deal to buy Instagram, the world dominating social network Facebook has now snapped up the small Israeli-based software company which created and runs the Face.com website – featuring a software which can recognise the faces of our friends and family from stored information on the website’s database. High-profile business site Reuters…
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Only in Japan! – Far East Has Tech Licked with Tongue Sensing Interface for Kinect
When it comes to tech it’s no secret that the Japanese give the rest of the world a good licking, but now they’ve really taken that idea too far with research currently on-going to develop of a tongue motion-capture interface for the Microsoft Kinect! A team at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan is…
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Samsung Note “Premium Suite” Brings S-Pen Tools to Android Ice Cream Sandwich
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Ahead of the launch of the new Android update on the gadget in coming weeks, Samsung announced it will bolster the ICS-based goodness on its sizeable smartphone – the Galaxy Note – by adding a Premium Suite upgrade which comes chock full of software tools optimised to utilise the gadget’s S-Pen peripheral. With the Premium…
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Facebook face recognition tagging banned in Germany
Controversial tech hits a legal barrier in Deutschland
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Facebook turns on ‘Facial Recognition Tag Suggestions’
The new face recognition tagging feature has been available in the US since December last year, although Facebook has now decided that today is the day that the social networking site will roll-out the new feature world-wide. The new feature is now available to all Facebook users, although for some reason Facebook has decided not…