{"id":651167,"date":"2013-04-08T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=423871"},"modified":"2013-04-08T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:32:36","slug":"job-posting-suggests-apple-trying-to-bulk-up-fingerprint-scanning-tech-for-future-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651167","title":{"rendered":"Job posting suggests Apple trying to bulk up fingerprint scanning tech for future iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/08\/apple-fingerprint-scanning-job-posting-423871\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"493\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/apple-iphone-5-yerba-5.jpg?w=650&amp;h=493&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Fingerprint Scanning\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center>We still have no idea whether <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) next <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/iphone-5s-specs-leaked-parts-392569\/\">iPhone will have fingerprint-scanning technology<\/a> but it&#8217;s a good bet that the company is at least working to put fingerprint scanners on some future devices. <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/13\/04\/08\/apples-us-based-chip-development-expanding-in-florida-could-be-related-to-fingerprint-tech\"><em>AppleInsider<\/em> has spotted<\/a> a new job posting showing that the company is looking for a new software engineer for its\u00a0&#8220;Melbourne Design Center&#8221; in Florida that just happens to be in the same location as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/07\/27\/apple-authentec-acquisition-security\/\">AuthenTec, the mobile security firm that Apple acquired last summer<\/a>. Since AuthenTec has a strong background in fingerprint scanning technology and since <em>AppleInsider<\/em> notes that the new engineer will &#8220;write low-level control firmware for &#8216;sensor ICs,'&#8221; it&#8217;s probably fair to assume that some sort of mobile scanning technology is in the works.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/U_MF5FuSvtg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still have no idea whether Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) next iPhone will have fingerprint-scanning technology but it&#8217;s a good bet that the company is at least working to put fingerprint scanners on some future devices. AppleInsider has spotted a new job posting showing that the company is looking for a new software engineer for its\u00a0&#8220;Melbourne Design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}