Given how much noise Apple generated with the facial recognition capabilities of its iPhone X, you can expect a whole bunch of other smartphone manufacturers to implement such technology in their upcoming smartphones. Though Samsung beat Apple to the punch on facial recognition in 2017, delivering it on the Galaxy S8 last April, its implementation was quickly forgotten about following reports that it was easily duped by a hi-res photo. According to a recent report, Samsung may be trying to up its game in this regard on its next flagship. Korean news website ETnews (via The Android Soul ), reported on Friday that Samsung is investing in improvements to both its facial recognition and iris scanning technologies for the Galaxy S9. Based on the translation from ETnews , Samsung’s goal is to “increase iris recognition and face recognition speed while maintaining the same basic parts specification and structure ...