The iPhone's Face Recognition Will Change Social Media, Gaming, Online Privacy, Your Life

First there were rumors based on some patent applications and thus it seemed Apple was going to use face recognition tech from its acquisition of Polar Rose in future iPhones.

Then hackers digging through the code inside a beta test version of iOS5 found hooks that confirmed face recognition was going to be a big part of it. Apple then officially confirmed it. Alongside new iPhones, iOS5 is now imminent. And since the first rumors we've also learned that Apple is putting deep Twitter integration as well as a slightly artificially intelligent system called Assistant that also does speech recognition in the mix.

The result is a perfect storm of technology that will bring fast, integrated face recognition tech to every hour of millions of iPhone users' lives. Things will change.