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Google rebrands cloud storage services as Google One with cheaper plans, extra benefits
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Google apps continue to track users even if location services are disabled
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Apple's work on circular screens could lead to round-face Apple Watch
Rayz2016 said:Mmm.
Sounds like a lot of complexity and a lot of compromises. -
Apple's Phil Schiller talks HomePod delay, AirPods engineering, Face ID in iPhone X, iMac ...
"Most people are comfortable with it within minutes - 30 minutes, whatever. It's not the kind of thing you have to live with for a week or two to get used to," said Schiller. "That, to me, is always the sign of some or our most advanced, best thought-out technology: they become intuitive incredibly quickly and change how you think about everything else you use."
That's not what intuitive means to me. Things don't "become" intuitive through practice...they are intuitive exactly because they don't require a learning curve. -
Video shows 10-year-old unlocking mother's iPhone X via Face ID
If the kid knows her passcode and has used it to unlock the phone, then his facial data is added to the secure enclave in order to augment the existing data and keep it current (i.e. a guy growing a beard, getting tanned, etc).
From Ars (related to the mask earlier but applies here too):
i.e. it is possible it is working exactly as it is supposed to, assuming the son "taught" the X that he was her.According to a white paper Apple published earlier this month, Face ID takes additional captures over time and uses them to augment enrolled Face ID data. If the researchers trained Face ID over time to work with the mask, they were giving themselves an advantage a real-world attacker wouldn't have. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/hackers-say-they-broke-apples-face-id-heres-why-were-not-convinced/
Edit: oh, sounds like they didn't train it with his face at all. hmmm