Being able to unlock your iPhone with Face ID is great, until you're wearing a mask. Apple recognizes this, and in beta software released today, it makes it a little easier to skip the Face ID display and enter your passcode, CNBC reports. At the moment, there is a slight delay between your phone realizing that it can't see your face and offering the screen to enter a passcode. To avoid that, you either have to remove your mask or turn off Face ID. But in the most recent iOS 13.5 beta, Apple lets users swipe up to enter a passcode and skip the delay.

A few months ago, if you wanted to find out what kind of personal information Apple had collected on you, you needed to navigate to Apple's privacy website, locate a hard-to-find tab to request the info and await its arrival. That changes today, with the introduction of a new privacy portal that will offer one click access to get the information, delete it, pause an Apple.com You'll still have to wait a few days to retrieve the information, from the updated http://www.apple.com/privacy Apple's updated privacy website (Photo: Apple) Apple updates its privacy website every fall, after the introduction of new phones and software upgrades to the mobile and computer operating systems, iOS12 and MacOS, which this year is called Mojave. Privacy has become a big buzzword for tech consumers, in the wake of massive vulnerabilities of Facebook and Google that exposed how the companies were targeting us with ads that tracked our every move.

A few years ago--the company won't say exactly when--some engineers at Apple began to think the iPhone's camera could be made smarter using newly powerful machine learning algorithms known as neural networks. Before long, they were talking with a lean vice president named Tim Millet. Millet leads a team of chip architects, who got to work. When the iPhone X was unveiled last fall, Apple's camera team had added a slick new portrait mode that can digitally adjust the lighting on subjects' faces, and artfully blur the background. It took advantage of a new module added to the iPhone's main chip called the neural engine, customized to run machine learning code.

Technology giant Apple has made its first ever startup acquisition in India, by acquiring Hyderabad-based machine learning startup Tuplejump for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2013 by Rohit Rai and Satyaprakash Buddhavarapu, Tuplejump operates in India as well as the United States. As per CrunchBase, Apple has made 82 acquisitions since it was founded in 1976.