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Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature defeated with digital photo
konger said:HA! I still ordered one - actually two, The S8 is10 times better than an iPhone (which looks exactly like my 2007 iPod touch btw). If only Apple could innovate like this. Or should I say steal. Apple has never innovated, it only steals or buys ideas from other companies (cough Xerox, yeah, your first breath was stolen). But most Apple sheep can't understand that. I am on a quest to educate them, but it's one step at a time. Apple sheep are predominantly very simple, non-tech people. The iPhone, a simple phone for very simple users.
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Samsung's attempt to catch up with iPhone X's Face ID security may be hampered by poor fac...
Yeah... but to rectify that, Sammy is working on a new tech called SphIncterID...fallenjt said:“it will require authentication with either the iris or a combination of both the iris and the face, not facial recognition on its own”.
Summarize in a few words: “Samsung face scan sucks!”
For 1 fucking phone that needs 3 biometrices combined, Samsung just admitted to the world that “We were caught off guard by Apple Face ID and our current implementation sucked”.
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Apple's FoundationDB takes new Record Layer open source, confirms tech underpins CloudKit
By Codd, this is MegaBig...
From the Wait Paper:The Record Layer is used by multiple systems at Apple. We demonstrate the power of the Record Layer at scale by de- scribing how CloudKit, Apple’s cloud backend service, uses it to provide strongly-consistent data storage for a large and diverse set of applications [43]. Using the Record Layer’s abstractions, CloudKit offers multi-tenancy at the extreme by maintaining independent record stores for each user of each application. As a result, we use the Record Layer on FoundationDB to host billions of independent databases shar- ing thousands of schemas. In the future, we envision that the Record Layer will be combined with other storage mod- els, such as queues and graphs, leveraging FoundationDB as a general purpose storage engine and remaining transac- tionally consistent across all these models. In summary, this work makes the following contributions:
An open source layer on top of FoundationDB with se- mantics akin to those of a relational database.
The record store abstraction and a suite of techniques to manipulate it, enabling billions of logical tenants to operate independent databases in a FoundationDB cluster.
A highly extensible architecture, clients can customize core features including schema management and indexing.
A lightweight design that provides rich features on top of
the underlying key-value store.
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Former Apple event venue Flint Center is closing
Sigh, very sad! The acoustics were great. My wife and I attended several concerts there... A warm summer afternoon listening to the great guitarist Andrés Segovia
from the balcony felt like we were sitting next to him... Also, attended the Mac announcement and several other Apple events.
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iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max preorders have started
I pre qualified and got is about 5:06 -- Sept 27 delivery
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Apple reports $58.3B revenue in Q2, shows growth despite COVID-19
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Demand for iPhone 11 outpacing supply chain expectations
I traded in my maxed iPhone XS for $400 under the IUG for a maxed out iPhone 11 Pro. The total cost for the XS was $57 x 12 - $400 == $684 - $400 == $284... that’s $24 a month... Hell, I spill more than that!
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Apple debuts iPhone 11 Pro from $999 with triple rear camera
I remember a Steve Jobs announcement keynote that consisted of a leather iPod sleeve and the iPod HiFI!rogifan_new said:
After starting out fast the keynote dragged a bit. There wasn’t a ton to talk about with the Pro phones. Whip is why they spent so much time on the camera.fastasleep said:
LOL, now the keynotes themselves aren’t innovative enough? “Reimagined” hahahaha what a joke.anantksundaram said:
Will do. Oh, I should have added (as I mentioned in another thread), the format of these keynotes is getting to be quite stale. It needs to be reimagined.fastasleep said:
What a shock. Maybe next year you can delight and surprise us by not complaining so much in advance?anantksundaram said:Basically, the dullest Apple keynote I can recall. I said some weeks ago that I expected one that was somewhere in the spectrum of ‘blah’ to ‘meh’: that turned out to be a wildly optimistic prediction.
Apple appears to be currently in a holding pattern vis-à-vis its products and services. Looking on the bright side, the stock was flat.
I’ll wait for 2020.
As an aside, what the heck happened to the 16" Mac, RFID trackers, etc?
Nobody expected Macs today. Nobody knows the timeline on the Tag, for all we know that’s a 2020 product. October event with both these and iPad Pros is more likely.
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Samsung skips from Galaxy S10 to 'S20' for upcoming refresh
Don't know about Sammy's implementation, but Apple uses multiple cameras to create 3D point clouds used for AR...gordy said:I remember when there were memes that joked about multiple cameras on the rear of phones. Now, you people celebrate it.
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First look: Hands-on with Apple's iPhone X
Whoa!canukstorm said:
