Touchless gesture control, curved screens for future iPhones on cards

Apple Inc is working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for future iPhones, projects that may help the company differentiate its most-important product in an increasingly crowded market, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The control feature would let iPhone users perform some tasks by moving their finger close to the screen without actually tapping it. The technology likely won’t be ready for consumers for at least two years, if Apple chooses to go forward with it, a person familiar with the work said.


Apple has long embraced new ways for humans to interact with computers. Co-Founder Steve Jobs popularized the mouse in the early 1980s. Apple’s latest iPhones have a feature called 3D Touch that responds differently depending on different finger pressures. The new gesture technology would take into account the proximity of a finger to the screen, the person said.

Apple reportedly planning to release cheaper MacBook Air this year

Apple is reportedly making plans to launch a more cheap variant of the 13-inch MacBook Air in the second area of 2018, the media stated.

Apple is likely to launch a new MacBook Air "with a decrease price tag" during the second one sector of 2018, that means we need to see it sooner rather than later, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities turned into quoted as pronouncing to 9to5mac on Saturday.

The analyst expects the greater inexpensive MacBook Air will assist push MacBook shipments up by 10-15 per cent this 12 months.

MacBook Air, released via then Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco in 2008, has no longer been up to date given that 2015 as Apple has shifted focus closer to the 12-inch MacBook and MacBook seasoned.

The 13-inch MacBook Air, a popular preference for university students, is presently bought starting at $999 for 128GB of PCIe-based storage, a 1.8GHz twin-center i5 processor, and 8GB of LPDDR3 RAM.

Zomato to update security of 6.6 mn accounts

Online restaurant guide and food ordering app Zomato will be reaching out to 6.6 million users, whose 'hashed' passwords could be 'theoretically decrypted' in order to get them to update their account security.

On Thursday, the company had reported that about 17 million user records have been stolen from its database, which included user email addresses and passwords but no payment information or credit card data.

"6.6 million users had password hashes in the 'leaked' data, which can be theoretically decrypted using brute force algorithms," Zomato said in a blogpost.

A hashed password is series of random-looking characters used by companies for security reasons to protect users.

The company will be reaching out to these users to get them to update their password on all services where they might have used the same password, it added.

Zomato said it was able to get in touch with the hacker, who had put the stolen user data up for sale. He has agreed to destroy all copies of the stolen data and take the data off the dark web marketplace.

The startup further said it will be introducing a bug bounty programme on Hackerone for security researchers very soon, which was the key demand of the hacker.

"The hacker has been very cooperative with us. He/she wanted us to acknowledge security vulnerabilities in our system and work with the ethical hacker community to plug the gaps," Zomato said.

The company said hacker also gave it all the details on the way he/she got access to this database.

The startup promised to post this information on their blog, once they close the loopholes so that it can be a lesson for others to follow. The disclosure comes at a time when the world is coping with the cyber attack by ransomware 'WannaCry', which has impacted IT networks in over 150 countries.
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