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Mask breakthough just too late?

One local entrepreneur is rooting for face masks to continue.

Toab techie Timmy Towrie, has spend the last few years devising face recognition software that allows you to unlock a phone while wearing a mask.

Having put everything in to the project he was just at the entering negotiations with tech giants when discussions on dropping the mask mandate began.

Timmy said: “It would be right fine if folk would just bide with the masks a peedie bit longer.

“Maybe about another five or six years.”

Timmy whose previous works included claik toc an app that sound tracks short videos with the annoying call of geese and Binder a dating app for those in the north west mainland, added:

“It’s cost me thousands, I’ve put the whole hoose on this.”