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no it's not a clickbait we got goodies on the samsung galaxy s nine Korean business publication the Bell claims samsung has designated project star as the codename for the Galaxy S nine while the s 9 plus will be known as star 2 the more interesting part in the bells report touches on Samsung's accelerated production schedule for the Galaxy S 9 reportedly Samsung wants to start manufacturing the s 9 and s 9 plus three or four months earlier than usual unnamed industry sources speculate that the reason might be an increased focus on Quality Assurance which makes sense considering the predicament Samsung has found itself in last year due to the note 7 now the same source claims that we shouldn't expect any major design changes making it more likely that we will once again see the double edged display now the iris scanner on your brand new Samsung Galaxy s8 is supposed to make the device much more secure and it is but not completely hackers from the Chaos Computer Club have demonstrated just how easy it is to trick the essays iris scanner in a perfectly controlled environment that is mark Clifton CEO of the company behind the iris scanner found in Samsung's flagship once explained how his company's technology can register up to 200 identifying features from a single iris or up to 400 with two irises compared to 130 identifiers on the FBI's fingerprint technology however it looks like in a perfectly controlled environment the galaxy s 8 iris scanner is easier to fool than previously thought this is how they did it and I quote the easiest way for a thief to capture iris pictures is with a digital camera in nightshot mode or with the infrared filter removed depending on the picture quality brightness and contrast might need to be adjusted if all structures are well visible the iris picture is printed on a laser printer to emulate the curvature of a realized surface a normal contact lens is placed on top of the print this means that at least in theory someone could steal your Galaxy s8 and trick the iris scanner in order to make online payments using apps like Sam pay the Chaos Computer Club or CCC consequently recommends that you use the traditional pin protection however it is important to note yet again that this test was done in a perfectly controlled environment meaning the likelihood of someone being able to capture your irises with a camera and stealing your Galaxy S 8 device is quite low on top of that there's been other tests where hackers have been able to successfully steal users pin numbers or bypass fingerprint scanners so the bottom line is that in theory any security protection is susceptible to a malicious hack we just need to be careful when using password or biometric protection and avoid storing sensitive information on our phones now since this news when public Samsung has issued a statement and I quote we are aware of the issue but we would like to assure our customers that iris scanning technology in the Galaxy s8 has been developed through rigorous testing to provide a high level of accuracy and prevent attempts to compromise its security such as images of a person's iris if there is a potential vulnerability or the advent of a new method that challenges our efforts to ensure security at any time we will respond as quickly as possible to resolve the issue now let's move on to fun stuff and you know what's fun drones especially affordable drones who doesn't love drones once the playthings of the wealthy now there's some of the coolest toys around especially the ones with cameras check out this silver dollar sized drone with full video recording capabilities the cheerson CX TC launched as the world's smallest camera drone now the camera is only 0.3 megapixels but users have said that it is surprisingly good low-light capabilities and is crystal-clear outdoors this micro sized cat Terrorizer launched at a price of $50 however it's dropped to around $25 in most places what some things can you think of doing with a $25 drone let me know in the comments below now if you are a developer or an aspiring developer code is your world you create it tweak it and lovingly obsess over it so picking the right repository management tool is super important that's why our sponsor at a in created bitbucket bitbucket is the get solution for professional teams helping over 5 million developers build with a purpose bitbucket gives teams of all sizes free private repositories with state-of-the-art features like the world's best pull request algorithm built in continuous delivery and integrations with your favorite tools like docker AWS and Azure and because bitbucket comes from Atlassian you get the best JIRA integration available bitbucket is for the code that takes us to Mars decodes the human genome or drives your next car visit bitbucket org forward slash for the code to start your free account that's bitbucket org forward slash for the code try bitbucket today what will your code do you you