Oppo Find X and Moto E5 Plus arrived in India, Xiaomi[1] finally made its debut on the stock market, Apple[2] released iOS 11.4.1, Microsoft[3] launched its Surface Go budget Windows tablet, Facebook[4] was fined for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Paytm[5] launched forex services, WhatsApp[6] started labelling forwarded messages, while Apple unveiled its mid-year refresh of its MacBook Pro laptops - these were some of the biggest happenings in the week past. In case you've not managed to catch all the major tech news this week, there's no need to fret - here's a roundup of all the top news stories that broke over the past seven days.
Let's start with the Oppo Find X[7]. The Chinese smartphone maker's latest flagship has been launched[8] in India, and it's certainly an interesting offering. First unveiled[9] at a Paris event last month, the Oppo Find X features a camera slider - a design decision taken to reduce the size of display bezels. The slider contains both the front and rear cameras, sliding up when required - including when unlocking the smartphone with using the 3D facial scanning feature.
Oppo Find X's 3D facial scanning feature - called O-Face Recognition - like Apple's Face ID uses 3D structured light with 15,000 projected dots to recognise faces. Oppo claims it is 20 times safer than fingerprint recognition - which if true, would be good, because the smartphone doesn't bear a fingerprint sensor. The company has only brought a single variant of the smartphone to India for now - the 8GB RAM and 256GB inbuilt storage - though Oppo says the Find...