Why You Should Stick to Using a Passcode Instead of Facial Recognition on Android 4.0


Updated 11/16/11 1:19 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Facial Recognition Hacked

One of the more awesome features of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is facial recognition. This new feature allows you to unlock your cell phone just by sticking your face in front of the camera sensor. This sounds like something straight out of the future, but one Android developer found that it may be a quick way for your phone to be hacked. In the video below, this reviewer shows that your Read more

How-To: Disable Facebook Facial Recognition


Updated 06/08/11 3:10 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

How to Turn Off Facebook Facial Recognition

You don't like to be tagged in Facebook photos. It doesn't matter if the pics are great or not, you just aren't photo-friendly. To your dismay, Facebook's facial recognition feature (which was recently rolled out worldwide) makes it super easy for your friends to tag you in photos after uploading albums, since the system recognizes your face and suggests your name during the bulk tagging process. Read more

New Dating Site Will Find Your Twin


Updated 09/12/11 3:15 PM · Posted by · 6 comments

Find Your Face Match Dating Site

Opposite personalities may attract, but so do physical look-alikes. Yes, not only are we attracted to people who look like us, but we're attracted to people who resemble our opposite-sex parents. Personally, I think people just run in homogeneous circles and familiarity breeds comfortableness, but science disagrees. It's not just about hair and eye color or personal style, but facial structure. Read more

Google Adds Facial Recognition To Image Search


Updated 06/01/07 6:54 PM · Posted by GeekSugar · 10 comments

Google Adds Facial Recognition To Image Search

You've got to give this a try. It's almost as cool as Google's new streetside views feature, although it's a secret that's been kept on the down low. Say you want to find pictures of Hayden Panettiere (aka Claire Bennet) from the show "Heroes". You type in Claire Heroes in the Google Image box and your results appear. Now say you just wanted pictures of Hayden's face. By simply adding Read more

One Sexy, One Green: Sprint Pushes Out Two New 4G LTE Phones at CES


Updated 01/12/12 2:16 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Sprint Galaxy Nexus and Viper Details

Sprint customers will soon have a wider range of choices when it comes to phone selection. The company announced two new phones at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, one with an advanced OS, the other with a green thumb. Check out the details on each of them below, and stay tuned for pricing and release date information. Galaxy Nexus You've heard its name before. Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is Read more

Lenovo Gets on the Ice Cream Sandwich Train With a TV


Updated 01/09/12 4:45 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Android TV From Lenovo

You've probably often thought "I could use an Android-running TV in my life." Well, Lenovo has totally read your mind and announced its K91 at CES. A 55-inch 3D HDTV running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, the K91 offers full 1080p, holds a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB storage, and WiFi, along with Ethernet, HDMI, SD card, USB 2.0 ports. It even has a 5MP webcam to boot. Read more

Amazing New Features Coming With Galaxy Nexus and Android Ice Cream Sandwich


Updated 10/19/11 10:21 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Galaxy Nexus Details and Specs

Google and Samsung announced the new Galaxy Nexus this evening in Hong Kong, which will be running the latest Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. New features coming with the OS are extensive and pretty amazing: facial recognition lets you unlock the phone with your face, NFC technology that has been partnered up with an app called Android Beam, which lets you share information and Read more

7 Great Social Networking Sites That Are Just For Kids


Updated 07/22/11 1:07 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Best Social Networks For Kids

Earlier this week we found out that 20,000 kids are banned from Facebook every day after trying to sign up for an account. Others, however, lie about their age in order to get access, which can set them up for privacy or safety issues. If your tot or tween has been begging for the ability to update her status, there are many safe, kid-specific social networks to choose from. These sites follow Read more

Android's Ice Cream Sandwich Expected in Oct. or Nov.


Updated 09/08/11 12:43 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Android Ice Cream Sandwich to Be Released in October or November 2011

Google announced earlier this year that the next Android mobile update, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, would be released at some time in late 2011. Eric Schmidt, who spoke at the Dreamforce conference yesterday, confirmed that Android Ice Cream Sandwich will be released in October or November. Ice Cream Sandwich promises to bring the best of both mobile and tablet devices — including increased Read more

Daily Tech: Why the iPhone 5 Won't Be Called the iPhone 5


Updated 08/09/11 10:58 AM · Posted by GeekSugar · 0 comments

Top Tech News on GeekSugar August 9, 2011

Will the next iPhone be called the iPhone 4G? iPhone 4S? — Dvice Attack the Block is the Summer's must-see movie — PopCandy Life on Earth could actually be alien — The Mary Sue SyFy is canceling Eureka — io9 3 ways to build a ring flash on the cheap — Unplggd Google group members to use facial recognition to identify London rioters — TechCrunch Read more