Windows 8 facial-recognition login API spotted [Updated]

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Microsoft’s next-gen OS, Windows 8 , will be user-aware according to the latest APIs discovered, suggesting the platform could well be able to track and identify users when they sit at their PCs. Windows8Italia spotted the “Detect human presence” API in among their M1 copy of Windows 8; Microsoft has used a similar system on the Xbox 360 with Kinect, to log users into Xbox LIVE services using ...

Source: Yahoo! News