A futuristic way to childproof your phone

Soon, our phones may be able to tell the age of the person swiping it

A new app for parents.

Your phone may soon be able to tell whether it's you or your child swiping the screen, said Rachel Metz at Technology Review​. While there's no shortage of activity-monitoring apps on the market, most can "be disabled by tech-savvy children." That prompted researchers at the University of South Carolina and China's Zhejiang University to create an algorithm that can detect the age of a device's user based on swiping patterns, which could allow parents to more effectively block apps they "want to keep off-limits."

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