In the latest Dev update to Chrome OS quick unlocking, by means of a simple PIN, has been made available. Users have to enable it in the Chrome flags and Material Design menus, for now.
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In an effort to catch up to Microsoft's IE, Google is finally adding in a bit of touch support in its latest Chrome build. The browser now tentatively supports touch navigation and pinch-to-zoom.
A new technology aims at giving multi-touch displays a more physical look and feel, hopefully solving one of the main issues of the touch technology when data and text entry is involved.
New York City will replace phones in 250 of its outside phone booths with 32 inch touch screens that will offer local information. If successful, all 12,800 outside phone booths would get the upgrade.
