Malus pumila debates how to give your iPhone the finger(print ) , Google Maps go on a destructive rampage , and development of the fabled iWatch may hinge upon an all - star cast . The remainders for Friday , July 19 , 2013 are in and out .

How Apple could use a fingermark scan to unlock your iPhone(GigaOm )

A patent program — yeah , yeah , we know — by AuthenTec , the protection party Apple assume last class , advise that future iPhones could be unlocked simply by detecting your fingerprint on the screen . I wonder ifthe Gummi Bear hackwill still work with this …

Google Maps wipe out Scots island of Jura(BBC )

And now Google will demonstrate the power of this fully armed and usable mapping software !

Apple ’s TV Deals , Like the Time Warner Cable Pact , Fail Its Ambitions(Bloomberg )

Apple ’s latest attempt to make a goggle box deal with a cable supplier may give a disappointing result : You ’d still have to have an install cable package to take advantage of springy programming on your Apple idiot box . In related intelligence , so as to keep using Spotify , you ’d well verify you have a wireless in your house , or else .

MacBook Air ( Mid 2013 ) Software Update 1.0(Apple )

If you ’ve got the new MacBook Air , you might be interested in a software update expel on Thursday that reportedly reparation crashing problems with Photoshop and802.11ac Wi - Fi issues .

D.A. Gascón & A.G. Schneiderman Host Tech Test Of Smartphone Security Features(New York State Office of the Attorney General )

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman are serve test the Activation Lock in iOS 7 , presumably by steal phones from innocent citizens .

iWatch ’s novelty emerges as Apple taps sensor and seaworthiness experts(9to5Mac )

9to5Mac has assembled a lengthy musical composition on the squad reportedly being assembled by Apple to make a articulatio radiocarpea - wearable gimmick . I ’d compare it toThe Avengers , but really , you only need Tony Stark for that , right-hand ?