Upon its first unveiling, the 12.9 inch iPad Pro has been marketed as a laptop-killer, as the company touted it’s faster and more powerful than most laptop PCs, a statement that positioned the largest iPad Pro as officiel competition for most consumer laptops. Of course it is implied that the definition of consumer laptops includes devices that are comparably less powerful than MacBooks, by a variety of parameters.

Apple’s first big event of 2017 is expected to take place this March, with a specific focus on the iPad Pro, according to Japanese blog Macotakara.

Over the course of the last couple of days, word of Apple’s interest in facial recognition on the iPhone, and possibly on other devices, has spun a bit of confusion in regard to what might, or might not happen to the current form of biometric identification implemented in iPhones, iPads, and as of late, MacBooks too.

Tel Aviv-based startup RealFace, is a cybersecurity firm that focuses on machine-learning algorithms and facial recognition.