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New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button

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More details about Apple’s upcoming iPhone have been uncovered in HomePod’s firmware — which runs iOS like the iPhone — revealing features including a tap to wake function, facial expression and attention detection, and the long-rumored removal of the home button. Apple accidentally released the firmware over the weekend resulting in a frenzy of analysis about previously unknown features. Developers including Steve Troughton-Smith and Guilherme Rambo have been tweeting their findings, notably the discovery of the new iPhone’s bezel-less screen design. They’ve also concluded that the resolution for the iPhone 8 could be as much of a visual leap forward from current-generation iPhones as the iPhone 4’s Retina display was from the original iPhone. Apple is using codenames for both its face recognition feature and the bezel-less phone, called “Pearl ID” and “D22” respectively. A potential “attention detection” feature is also mentioned in the code, with some speculating that ma
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Facebook Kills AI That Invented Its Own Language

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Recently, the social media giant Facebook found in its tests that its own AI bots were started talking in a strange and apparently erroneous language. Hence, before losing the control completely the social network giant Facebook has decided to shut down the system. Facebook division of artificial intelligence development (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researchers) created a system devoted to see how they could interact in colloquies. The results of the tests of the system began showing that the “bots” were talking in a strange and apparently erroneous language. However, this was not an error, since the system had created its own language. Faced with this type of interaction on its own Facebook has decided to deactivate it, as the technology portal “The Next Web ” points out. The two “bots”, called Bob and Alice, used random and nonsense words, so the researchers thought at first that the AI system was suffering a failure. However, after an analysis they noticed that in th
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 image leaks ahead of August launch event

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Samsung is slated to unveil the next iteration in its Galaxy Note line on August 23rd, but a crisp image of the handset was just leaked to VentureBeat’s Evan Blass and posted to Twitter. The Galaxy Note 8, which Samsung hinted at in its New York City launch event invite with the phrase “do bigger things,” looks in the product image like a monstrous smartphone, thanks largely to the edge-to-edge Infinity Display technology of the Galaxy S8. Stretched to fit the Note’s larger frame, the screen looks even bigger and the bezels almost nonexistent. We don’t know too much else about the Note 8, other than that it will come with a dual-camera system and a hopefully non-exploding battery. Given last year’s horrendous Note 7 recall, and the damage it did to the Galaxy brand, Samsung is under serious pressure to deliver a flawless premium phone that can win back consumers and reestablish the Note name in the high-end phablet market. The Verge will be there live next month, so tune in then
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