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  • Under-display Touch ID on an iPhone is still coming, leaker claims

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    mike1 said:
    Eric_WVGG said:

    Also, even though I kind of hate FaceID, I find myself missing TouchID most when I'm in a checkout line and trying to use Apple Pay. But you know what works better than an iPhone for that? The Watch. I want TouchID back too but really it's not that big a deal.

    Whenever I hear this complaint, it seems that the user is under the mistaken impression that you need to be looking at the phone while you are holding it against the terminal. That is not necessary. You can double press the side button while the phone is against the POS terminal and then authenticate your face. Much more convenient.

    Agree that the Watch is the best way to handle it, though.

    Face ID is not a lot of use when you are trying to pay for fuel while wearing a full face crash helmet especially the retro AGV ones. OTOH, taking one glove off is easy.
    Dogperson

  • Apple's carbon-neutral goal is a giant task, could echo through big tech

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    meanwhile...
    To quote an report on the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54141899
    Google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in "high-quality carbon offsets".
    It became carbon-neutral in 2007 and says it has now compensated for all of the carbon it has ever created.

    It is a whole lot easier if you mostly steal information and only make a little bit of stuff.

    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobraFileMakerFellerjony0

  • Future Apple devices may use sound outside of human hearing to signal each other

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    Oh Goody. Another attack vector for the hackers. I really, really hope that if this comes to fruition that we the user can disable it like we currently can do with WiFi, BT etc but for how long eh?
    darkvader

  • Twitter in long-shot talks to potentially buy TikTok

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    Don't bother Twitter. I'm no fan of any social media platform but IMHO, once the current POTUS gets an idea into his mind, there is no shifting it. Again, IMHO, he'll stop at nothing to pick a fight with China in the run up to November. TikTok in the USA is a lost cause. When that falls, he'll pick another target and another and another. He'll only stop when he's sure of winning the elctorial college.
    DogpersonDAalsethwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Google Pixel 4a launch expected on Monday

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    MacPro said:
    Spy machines.
    I once owned an Android device. Well... two actually. An HTC thing and an early Samsung. The sheer amount of network traffic that the Samsung generated was mind blowing. I was trying to debug a server app and Wireshark was showing me all this 'phone home' traffic. That was the end of android for me. Google is a beast that needs huge amounts of data to keep it fed so there is little or no reason to suspect that any phone they release will be any different.
    I'm not paying good money for a device that will almost certainly spy on me.
    Yes, I know that I could root it and load up say LineageOS but... that is as much faff as building a Hackintosh.
    Dogpersonwatto_cobra