It is not usual to comment on intrigue and murder novels on a technology blog that revolves around the Apple universe. We are always making reviews, commenting on current news about apple devices, applications, updates, screen resolutions and a thousand technical data.
Yesterday I finished reading the novel «The imprint of evil»From the Madrid writer Manuel Ríos San Martin. I will try to explain no spoilers why I invite you to read it.
In January 2017, Manuel Rios published his first novel, "Circles". A police thriller where a TV contestant dies live in front of the cameras. Social networks take a leading role, since the reader can interact with social networks and access information online to follow the plot of the novel.
This past June, publishes his second book, "The footprint of evil." Another detective novel that begins when some boys find the body of a young woman in the excavations of Atapuerca, in a Neardenthal tomb simulating a burial made thousands of years ago. Three investigators take the case, as it is very similar to one they left unsolved six years earlier.
So far, a black novel like hundreds that run through bookstores and libraries, and lately, through portals dedicated to selling ebooks. I comment on this book, because for those "hooked" to Apple devices it has its grace. The whole novel has clear references, some quite technical, to the iPhone and its functions with iOS. They find the victim's cell phone a day after being buried, and when they see that it was a brand new iPhone X, the police ask the judge to dig her up to unlock the phone .. ¡via Face ID!
I will not reveal if they succeed or not. There is a very detailed explanation of the system you use Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), for facial recognition. You can tell the apple juice runs through the writer's veins. In the end, they manage to discover who the murderer is thanks to ... another iPhone X.