This year the next big battleground between the titans of the smartphone industry will be augmented reality, as both Apple and Google duke it out with new phones, cameras and systems designed to provide Terminator vision – or Pokémon Go on steroids – to the masses.Augmented reality (AR) is nothing new. Many people’s first experience of the concept was seeing through the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 Terminator in James Cameron’s 1984 blockbuster. The movie showed the Terminator’s vision overlaid with information about subjects, objects and objectives.But after failed attempts at making that concept a reality for the mass market, with Google Glass and others, AR was thrown back into the spotlight in July 2016 with the launch of Pokémon Go, whoch overlaid the mini-beasts bobbing about in the real world for players to catch.

Over the past decade, the iPhone has transformed Apple into the world’s most profitable and biggest technology company.A host of app developers, chip makers and other industries depend on the Apple economy for survival and business owners, too, want to be able to work on the world’s most popular smartphone.An iPhone is not so much a new gadget but a new technological ecosystem. It’s powered by a closed operating system known as iOS, and not even the FBI can gain access to it. This is the key to Apple’s success.But there’s also concern about Apple’s dominant position with its suppliers and customers. Apple doesn’t even have to be priced competitively: with a price tag of $999 its newest model iPhone X is the world’s most expensive iPhone ever.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Equifax said on Friday that it made changes in its top management as part of its review of a massive data breach, with two technology and security executives leaving the company “effective immediately.”The credit-monitoring company announced the changes in a press release that gave its most detailed public response to date of the discovery of the data breach on July 29 and the actions it has since taken.The statement came on a day when Equifax’s share price continued to slide following a week of relentless criticism over its response to the data breach,

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Consumer protection bodies in the UK and US are increasing their crackdown on Instagram “influencers”, in an attempt to rein in the big business being done covertly on social media.Instagram’s popularity with young people, and women in particular – in April it reported 700 million members – has led to a roaring trade between marketers and so-called influencers with large and engaged followings. Members of the Kardashian family, who promote a range of products from “detox” tea to waist-training corsets to their tens of millions of followers, can reportedly command as much as $500,000 (£370,000) per post.Want a more ’authentic’ tourist experience? There’s an app for that Read moreBut even lower-profile celebrities can make a profit from the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook.Elizabeth Olsen, who plays an influencer in the forthcoming film Ingrid Goes West, has attracted 745,000 followers since she joined Instagram for the first time in May, telling the LA Times: “Financially, it’s a brilliant opportunity. I was only hurting my opportunities by not participating.”

Facial recognition technology is coming of age. The new iPhone can be unlocked simply by looking at it, and accessing your smartphone is just one of many ways that facial recognition will change our daily lives. Soon we’ll be using our faces to pay for groceries, catch trains, pass through airport security, and more.In China, you can already use your face to gain access to office buildings and authorize ATM withdrawals. In Europe, high-end hotels and retailers use it to identify celebrity customers to make sure they get special treatment. Australian airports are installing a system that lets airline passengers glide through security without passports – and facial recognition systems are beginning to appear in U.S. airports too.