The past few years have been kind to space science in general and especially to NASA. Advancements in technology, monumental achievements, and historic phenomena has made being an astronaut and even a space scientist or engineer cool again. When Trump took the helm of the world’s largest superpower, there were worries that the outspoken president would de-emphasize the country’s space … Continue reading
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Want to show your love and loyalty to a brand in the most obnoxious way possible? Why not grab a baseball cap that will draw attention to it not with its logo but with the music that it’s blasting. Yes, music. If you have forgotten already, and we won’t blame you if you did, Atari announced its Speakerhat idea a … Continue reading
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Ahead of the iPhone X and Face ID being officially unveiled, one of the early rumors of the iPhone X is that it could feature an in-display fingerprint sensor. This meant that instead of a physical sensor placed outside of the phone, like in the home button, it could exist in/under the display, thus allowing Apple to create a phone sans home button.
Now obviously that rumor did not pan out, and while reports are claiming that facial recognition could be the next big thing, Synaptics doesn’t think so. In fact the company has recently announced its own in-display fingerprint sensor, and according to the company, they are hinting that a “top 5” smartphone manufacturer will be adopting it and that the component is already undergoing mass production.
Synaptics obviously doesn’t mention which company it is, but they did drop some hints by mentioning bezel-free OLED displays, which some have taken to mean Samsung. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen, but we have heard rumors that Samsung could be interested in the tech, and that they have actually been working to try and get it up and running, but haven’t really had much luck.
In fact KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggested that the tech might only debut with the Galaxy Note 9, although Synaptics’ announcement does hint that it could be sooner (assuming they’re talking about Samsung).
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