22july2013

There's a video of this effect (the eye lifting) available on M*cRum*rs. It's quite good. Most people will like the effect. I think some of us uber geeks who have a sharp eye for quality may notice the effect but unless you are really uptight you can live with it.

Unless I missed it, I didn't see anyone explain if this effect can work when there are multiple people in the image.

A webcam and a microphone would be negatives to me. Not neutrals, but negatives.

macxpress said:

Nothing has been said about this I don't believe...is this MacPro made in the USA like the cylinder Mac Pro, or has assembly returned back to China?

Since Apple proudly said the last Mac Pro was made in USA, and said nothing here, I'd put the odds of this one at 99-1 against it.

In the 2019 WWDC keynote speech Craig said that the updated HomeKit would analyze the video from cameras. He said it would analyze the video for motion and let you use the Home app to take action when motion is detected. But there was no further explanation of how to configure motion detection in the Home App. What I need is to be able to ignore cars on the street but trigger when someone is walking up to my house. I don't want to have to angle the camera to make the street invisible. Does the new Home app support this sort of motion detection?

AppleInsider said:

"Now what's amazing is that this whole interaction is end-to-end encrypted and anonymous," Federighi said. "It uses just tiny bits of data that piggyback on existing network traffic so there's no need to worry about your battery life, your data usage or your privacy."

"Tiny bits of data"? Put the following text in a terminal window: "ls | MD5". The resulting hash is hardly "tiny", it looks to me like 128 bits of data. And Apple's hashes may be even larger than that. Multiply that by a billion(?) devices transmitting once per minute and that's a lot. I'm not sure how it can piggyback either. There's no such thing as a free lunch or a perpetual motion machine. This sort of innovation is hard to get right. Remember, you aren't just needing to protect yourself from the US government, people also need to be protected from malicious governments like the majority of governments in the world today, many with billion dollar budgets for hacking who are legally allowed to hack their own citizens.