iPhone X First Look: Let's Talk About Face ID

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The iPhone X’s Face ID camera module has received a bit more press than Apple might’ve intended. The facial recognition security tech was the whiz-bang feature that caught everybody’s eye during the Tim Cook and friends keynote—and later it was repeatedly fingered as the culprit behind the long-rumored iPhone X shortages and delays. So what’s the deal with it? … Nasir Memon, chair of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering explained to Gizmodo earlier this year  that Touch ID actually takes multiple tiny photos of a person’s fingerprints.