Adobe is getting into the mobile scanning game with a new free iOS and Android app that is supposed to provide users with high-quality images of physical content they want to capture digitally. It’s called Adobe Scan, and works similarly to a bunch of other apps already available. Users point their smartphone cameras at whatever […]
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The ‘Textalyzer’ test: New York cops could soon be scanning drivers’ phones to see if they were texting
Flickr/Lord Jim APRIL 28, 2017 —The New York legislature has taken up a bill that will make it easier police officers to tell if texting caused of a motor vehicle accident. This effort has its roots in a 2011 Hudson Valley crash, which killed 19-year-old Evan Lieberman. The driver of the car he’d been riding in […]
Brain scanning may sort intentional crimes from reckless crimes
Enlarge (credit: FBI) Convicting someone of a crime depends in part on the mental state of the criminal. We make a distinction between knowing criminality and recklessness, and we give the two states of mind different levels of legal culpability. In the courtroom, however, assessing these mental states and a criminal’s past intentions can be extremely challenging. However, […]
Google adds fingerprint scanning to Chrome OS
Google has added a significant feature to its Chrome OS desktop operating system. The latest version of the dev channel of Chrome OS — version 58.0.3007.0 — lets you unlock your Chromebook using a fingerprint scanner. You can enable the new “Quick Unlock” feature by going to chrome://flags on a Chromebook. From there you can […]
