The MTA is asking Apple to update its face recognition technology so riders do not have to take off their masks to unlock their phones. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, MTA Chairman Patrick Foye asked that the tech giant “accelerate the development of new technologies and solutions” …
Read More »NYC commuters in April 2020.Photo: Scott Heins (Getty Images) The New York Public Transportation Agency wants Apple to come up with a way to unlock phones where passengers do not lower their masks to use Face ID, according to ABC News. Face ID has run into problems in the new …
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It’s a jungle out there. A slingshot snake is Big Apple’s latest strap hanger, according to a video posted on Twitter every Sunday. The black reptile with several feet slowly slid along an unidentified New York City Transit platform in the footage, and shuffled around while one person’s feet stood …
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The city is going through really tough times, last week’s reports make it clear, and the pain may be worse thanks to continued denial by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council. In a sobering 67-page document, the Association for the City of New York warns that restarting the …
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Protesters at the “City Council of Occupy” turned the city into a literal bathroom, using subway grates as makeshift latrines during their month-long encampment in Lower Manhattan, an MTA supervisor revealed Wednesday as workers cleaned up the mess. “All the people who were here went to the bathroom in the …
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