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  • Future Face ID could map a user's veins to foil 'evil twin' attack

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    Probably with this type tech

    https://www.accuvein.com/





    jony0

  • Apple doubling down on bendable designs for MacBook, MacBook Pro

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    MplsP said:
    cornchip said:
    I wonder how many times can it bend...

    Forever. 

    I have a bendable ruler that operates on this principle. It’s over 20 years old. This is a very clever idea. 
    It depends on the material used and the degree to which it bends. Spring steel can bend a fair amount and many times, aluminum much less so. All materials eventually develop stress fractures with enough loading and bending.

    I’m curious about how they plan to make it - steel is better than aluminum, but is much heavier and rusts. Steel alloys are expensive and heavy. They also need to make the hinge flexible and body rigid enough to avoid breaking the screen and other components. Any such construction would undoubtedly be significantly more expensive, too.

    I’m not exactly sure the material in my ruler, but for this application I’d guess it would be spring steel. Very, very thin gauge. This concept doesn’t rely on the strength of the material, but on pressure. The number of layers in the provided drawing is likely exaggerated. The layers would be not much thicker than a sheet of printer paper and would be compressed together with some kind of lubricant and sealed. These things last a long time.
    randominternetpersonwatto_cobrafastasleep

  • Galaxy Z Flip is Samsung's second try at foldable smartphones

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    solution in search of a problem

    edit - sorry, I see that speed1050 beat me to it in the other thread.
    williamlondonhypoluxabroylesj67dewmejbdragonwatto_cobra

  • Ex-Workflow employee publishes library of 150 Siri Shortcuts

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    I might look at these to get a better understanding of how Shortcuts work/s, but I think I will have the same frustrations as I do currently which are.

    • Location based shortcuts: Why should I have to invoke Siri when I arrive somewhere? Location is already on, I should be able to set a shortcut that launches as soon as I arrive at my destination without having to do anything further.
    • Settings: I looked at the Shortcuts update and it looks a little easier to understand and maybe a few more settings are available to access (or maybe just less hidden), but still very limited as to what you can do and when you can do it from what I can tell.
    Maybe I'm a dummy, but while better, Shortcuts doesn't seem like it's "there yet".
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Samsung trying to fight iMessage chat elitists with response graphic gallery

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    mjtomlin said:
    That's great marketing... Bring attention to your main competitor with obvious envy.


    #obviousenvy

    entropys said:

    • I was not aware there was such a thing as people actually getting consciously* excluded cause they have a green bubble. What sort of a tool would you be to do that to someone?

    Yep. It’s a thing. I have group of 9 very close friends (including myself). We all have iPhones. Except one. The other guy that had a blackberry finally caved to Blue Bubble pressure. It’s just better. It’s faster, more secure, you can name your chats (we have several “clubs” like “music club” and “old car club”) add to & leave chats as others have mentioned and all the other good stuff. We have a main chat with everyone in it including android guy but it’s reserved only for official group memos about group meetups, birthday wishes and the like. If he’d just give in to good sense and switch to iPhone he’d instantly be added to a number of the “clubs”. Simple as that.


    Edit: forgot to mention texting with androids always seems to screw up group threads splintering them into a half a dozen different chats which is of course, infuriating.



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