The Flash Season 6 Finale Recap: Who Died? And Is Iris Ready to Crack?

RELATED STORIES Team Flash, in this season’s (early) finale, scored a couple of wins — but also may have unknowingly suffered a great loss. With Eva now out and about, suited up and gunning for her husband, and Mirror Singh still doing her bidding, Barry & Co. theorized that Carver’s wife will have to first […]

The Flash: Candice Patton Ponders Iris’ Damage, Hints at ‘Finale’ Cliffhanger

RELATED STORIES As The CW’s The Flash speeds toward its final two episodes of Season 6, the good news is that Barry got wise to Mirror Iris, who upon being found out was essentially snuffed by her “mother,” Eva. The bad news is that Bar’s actual better half remains trapped in the Mirrorverse. What is […]

The Flash Boss Teases a ‘Fun’ Reason for Iris’ Naturally Curly Change-Up

In late August, Candice Patton revealed (and celebrated) via social media a new look for The Flash‘s Iris. TVLine has since gotten a sense for what brings about this mini, yet meaningful, makeover — and whether it’s just a one-time thing. “It means a lot to wear my curls on The Flash. And I know […]

The Flash Recap: Heist Anxiety — Plus, Iris Goes Toe to Toe With Cicada!

This week on The Flash, while Barry was busy shopping the black market, Iris found herself alone and face to face with a furious Cicada! RELATEDThe CW Renews Flash, Riverdale, Dynasty, Charmed, Supernatural Plus 5 Others With Cisco’s meta cure near completion, Caitlin shares with the team the “but” of the matter — to apply […]

Iris Automation raises $8 million to help autonomous flying machines avoid collisions

Iris Automation, a San Francisco-based startup that’s building collision avoidance systems for industrial drones and other autonomous flying machines, has closed an $ 8 million Series A round of funding led by Bessemer Venture partners, with participation from Bee Partners. Founded in 2015, Y Combinator alum Iris Automation claims a team of tech minds from the […]

Artificial iris responds to light like real eyes

The human iris does it’s job of adjusting your pupil size to meter the amount of light hitting the retina behind without you having to actively think about it. And while a camera’s aperture is designed to work the same way as a biological iris, it’s anything but automatic. Even point-and-shoots rely on complicated control […]

Breaking the iris scanner locking Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is laughably easy

Enlarge (credit: Chaos Computer Club) Hackers have broken the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone in an easy-to-execute attack that’s at odds with the manufacturer’s claim that the mechanism is “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked.” The cost of the hack is less than the $ 725 price for an […]

The Galaxy S8 iris scanner can be hacked with aging tech

Biometrics are becoming our next de facto security measure, and they’re supposed to be a vast improvement on easily-forgotten and hackable passwords. Yet a point-and-shoot camera, laser printer and contact lens is all it took for German hacking group Chaos Computer Club to crack the Samsung Galaxy S8‘s iris scanner. “By far [the] most expensive […]