Identity spoofing against older adults alone grew by 8x between 2020 and 2024, driven in part by convincing AI impersonations of friends and loved ones. It's a problem costing people in the U.S. nearly half a billion dollars a year with no end in sight.
While using a smart lock has a lot of positives, one of the negatives is having to deal with a battery that has unexpectedly gone dead. Lockin is introducing a smart lock that bypasses that problem: the V7 Max, which is powered by wireless optical charging. According to the company, the lock uses "eye-safe optical output to provide rapid power delivery with zero waste within a four-meter range."
You've probably used both technologies this week without realizing it. When Siri transcribes your text message, that's speech recognition. When your banking app verifies it's you speaking, that's voice recognition. The terms are often used interchangeably, but they address completely different problems. And as artificial intelligence gets better at faking human speech, understanding voice recognition vs. speech recognition becomes critical for anyone building secure systems.
