Hardware Lead News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to improving the accuracy of ultrasonic touch sensing and fingerprint imaging on buttons like the iPad Air's Touch ID on the top button as shown in our cover graphic. While the execution of ultrasonic fingerprint imaging on the iPad Air's top button looks simple enough to consumers, the technicalities behind this feature is quite steep.

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals touch input will be function on metal housings of future devices of Macs, iPhone, iPad, TV, TV remote, HMDs, Trackpads and more using ultrasonic touch sensing technology.

In 2002 Rockstar followed up the modern day Grand Theft Auto 3 with the beachy neon 1986 throwback Vice City. If they chose to make GTA 6 a period piece by rewinding the clock the same number of years, we'd be looking at... 2006, not long before GTA 4 came out. Hopefully the next Grand Theft Auto won't make us feel the grim march of time that acutely, but hopefully it will have a creative setting that takes us away from Liberty City or San Andreas.We now know that Grand Theft Auto 6 is well into development, but its setting is still a total mystery. With the whole world at it...

In 2002 Rockstar followed up the modern day Grand Theft Auto 3 with the beachy neon 1986 throwback Vice City. If they chose to make GTA 6 a period piece by rewinding the clock the same number of years, we'd be looking at... 2006, not long before GTA 4 came out. Hopefully the next Grand Theft Auto won't make us feel the grim march of time that acutely, but hopefully it will have a creative setting that takes us away from Liberty City or San Andreas.We now know that Grand Theft Auto 6 is well into development, but its setting is still a total mystery. With the whole world at it...

The cycle of videogame discourse loops around again, an ouroboros chewing its own tail and pausing only to vomit up one of the same half-dozen topics we must apparently discuss again and again, until the world's ending. This time, the cyclical serpent has barfed out the subject of how long a videogame should be. Do your best to ignore it. Let's talk about something else instead. Let's simply peruse our libraries, look over our save files, and take note of those games we've decided are worth dedicating, say, to pick an entirely arbitrary number at random, 500...