Apple's newest patents hint at constant, AI-based user recognition

Technology giants, thankfully, are increasingly moving us toward a future with less of a reliance on passwords via technologies like face authentication, Touch ID and the like. Apple, for its part, may have had something along these lines in mind with its purchase of the patent portfolio of the defunct company Lighthouse AI, which focused on home security camera technology. Official word of the portfolio's reassignment appeared in the US Patent and Trademark Office database in recent weeks, acco...