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Instead of puking all over a solution because Apple, you should be treasuring a company that actually values security and takes the effort to make it all fairly secure.

Security is not the same as privacy. Apple shares your data with its "strategic partners". And more.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Probably they will go back to claiming that their cars do not meet the definition of autonomous. But this time Arizona won't be so keen to offer them a safe space from those regulation-loving Californians.

It's about money, California will do anything to protect it's stream of revenue to dump into any libtard project moonbeam chooses, that's why Uber needs a permit.

Uhm, no, it's not about money, it's about safety.

An autonomous vehicle testing permit has an annual fee of $3600 and includes 10 test vehicles. Additional batches of 10 vehicles can be added at $50 a batch.

Currently there are about 50 companies testing about 300 cars total. 50 licences mean 500 cars if everyone is testing 10 cars. This is not the case (since there are less than 500 cars on the road), and you have some companies (e.g. Waymo) testing way more than 10, while others are probably testing one or two. So that's 50*3600 = $180,000 in application fees + a few hundred, maybe thousand, dollars more from the companies testing more than 10 vehicles.

This is hardly some sort of windfall for the government of California. The money probably doesn't cover the cost of developing the legislation, processing the applications, and monitoring the results.

The entire company is having quality control issues. Even the marketing department.

Apple fixes buggy iPhone X ad before fixing the actual iOS 11 bug
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/23/17155756/apple-ios-11-bug-iphone-x-ad

Foxconn buys Belkin, Linksys, and Wemo

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://archive.fo/0yIaF

FaceID is a terrible idea anyway. Notches in the screen? Seriously?

Amazingly, they are copying the notch
, just not the faceID.

Well Apple copied the notch so whatever.

Now imagine Uber's narrative was more like:

"While the pedestrian was legally at fault our vehicle should have avoided the accident, and barring that, the safety driver should have been more attentive and avoided the situation. We are suspending all tests until we have determined the nature of the failure and taken steps to make sure it won't be repeated."

But that was their narrative, almost word for word. They immediately suspended all tests and put out a press release saying the above. Uber is a horrible company, but in this case they've done exactly what you suggested. The problem is that they could've easily foreseen this accident if they hadn't been cutting corners and trying to pretend their tech was better than it was for the sake of the next round of funding.

I think it's a bit of a both. Uber was mostly silent while the police put out a very Uber friendly (or homeless pedestrian hostile) statement about the crash which became the only narrative.

I can accept Uber got a bit unlucky with how the PR played out. You don't want to say a lot during the investigation, and if the cops are being nice it doesn't really occur that you need to speak up to lower expectations.

Plus, for whatever reason the video is so crappy, it makes it look like Uber is trying to pull a fast one.

FaceID is a terrible idea anyway. Notches in the screen? Seriously?

Amazingly, they are copying the notch , just not the faceID.

Waymo claims 5600m between interventions. Maybe it's true, but until they are forced to release some data (say, via a fatality) I see no reason for believing a claim made by a company spokesperson.

It's public because California's regulations require it to be public. 352454 miles driven, 63 disengagements = once every 5600 miles. Read the report (pdf) yourself.

Or if you're living under a government that's figured out how to leverage social media, you can look for all that info in just one place.

How much did Magic Leap pay you to publish this?
Magic Leap Sucks it Colleagues and staff dry.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

https://variety.com/2016/digit...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/1...

From followup news: "Uber’s self-driving car showed no signs of slowing before fatal crash, police say"

So there goes that defense.

/sarcasm Because in order for Linux to succeed on the desktop you need to run some slow, bloated, shitty ribbon bar IDE right?

It is obvious you don't deal with text day-in and day-out. Vim works because it becomes an extension of your mind once you learn how to use it. It is FAST. It can edit files of almost ANY size.

* Linux won in the server space. 100% of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world run Linux.
* Linux won in the mobile space. Linux runs on over 2 Billion monthly active devices.

That leaves the desktop space.

Guess what, no one gives a fuck that Windows dominates the desktop. People _already_ use Linux on the desktop. The only ones complaining about the "quantity" is you.

with a first-generation Sony smartwatch: https://www.theverge.com/2012/...
and then a Basis tracker: http://www.bestfitnesstrackerr...
and then a Pebble: https://www.pebble.com/
and then a Moto 360: https://www.motorola.com.au/pr...

My inner gadget freak kept wanting to be wowed, but I kept not being wowed, so I kept trying other models. By the time friends started to get Apple watches, I had already transitioned to wearing traditional analog mechanical watches instead. I played with their Apple watches a bit, but it was the same basic stuff as the ones I'd tried, maybe with more spit and shine.

So smart watches got me into wristwatches... but not in the end into smart watches.

I've always been a tech early adopter, so I was expecting to eventually be seduced into the upgrade cycle or wanting the latest-and-greatest, but instead I realized that what I liked most were things like having the time on my wrist, the designs of the faces, customizing the strap/bracelet, and generally wearing them as an apparel item. What I liked least?

- Having to pair with my phone
- Having to deal with apps and taps that were cumbersome and ultimately just poorly duplicated what was on my phone
- Having to charge the watch over and over and over again
- Starting to envy the idea of having *really* timeless and personal thing on my wrist, rather than tossing out/upgrading in a year or two

Basically, I hated all the "smart" parts. And on top of that, I got a taste for the sense of the really personal nature of something that you wear on your body all the time, and suddenly didn't like the idea that this thing that was literally a part of me all the time was disposable and just a temporary relationship. For a phone, okay. For something that you touch nonstop, that becomes a part of you, it was a step too far into the bionic man world.

I have no desire to own a smart watch any longer. But I now have over 30 automatic mechanical wristwatches with lovely dials and lume, domed sapphire crystals, hefty bracelets with sold end links, and classic looks. And I am learning how to service and repair them (I recently serviced my first Slava 2427 movement) and my young son has expressed a lot of interest in them, so someday I can leave them to him and he will still be able to tell the time with them while identifying them with childhood memories and with me—something that would not be the case with a transient smart watch.

iCloud used to be bad, but actually has been really stable and performed well for at least the past year or so.

Not very surprising, considering: https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

Reddit has been waging a war against free speech, and against certain demographics, for the sake of political correctness, for many years now.

Merely recounting some of the facts of journalistic ethical missteps with regards to Gamergate was sufficient cause for massive Orwellian Bannings, Shadowbannings, and Mass censorship. They will also do the same across Reddit for terrorist bombings that dare to mention a privileged group that bombed or killed, such as with the London terrorist knifings, or the Orlando Massacre

If you bring up inconvenient facts that are not politically correct, you can expect to receive the same treatment. You can also expect to have the Inquisitors of SRS downvote brigading your small subreddit. SRS is quite open about being against free speech, and actively opposing non-SJW outlooks. SRS receive active admin support, so they are rarely, if ever, punished. If you resist Admin control over a subreddit, your subreddit is removed.

Furthermore, there is a massive conspiracy of leftist moderators that, in cahoots with the Administrators of Reddit, actively attempt to squelch and censor the views of the Right, and Libertarians. This is not unlike the situation with Wikipedia, and the moderation wars that have occurred there, or the regular invasion of SJW material here, into Slashdot.

Why is this?

Politically Correct speech stands in direct opposition to Free Speech.
The privatization of the Commons
Corporate attempts to push Feel Good communication codes everywhere, to sell More Advertising.
Demonization of Men (White & Asian mainly), like Google
Active attempts to silence political opposition outside the Silicon Valley Worldview

Visionary? Magical? Great innovation?

Reinventing the wheel might be great, unless of course all you need is a wheel.

3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.

If they really want to do something new with sound they should make their stupid music app play FLAC. Isnt that the whole point of getting sound over W1 headphones? (AKA"special blutetooth")

Seriously, for such an innovator this is rubbish.

Even though W1-equipped Apple earbuds stream over 256k AAC (which I defy any human to distinguish from lossless), it appears your ridiculous, storage-wasting wish has been granted:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

But seriously? FLAC (or ALAC) on a fucking PHONE used in a Mobile environment is ASININE.

Lyft, if they have an interest in self-driving cars, doesn't seem to actively pursue it.

Really? Are you sure about that?

Lyft, if they have an interest in self-driving cars, doesn't seem to actively pursue it.

Really? Are you sure about that?

Yeah, no need to ever study ongoing controversies of science. Everything is "fine", like here:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

Actually, a survey of 270 academics reveals that the information engine at the heart of science is broken, see:

https://plus.google.com/+Chris...

When your car's engine breaks down, you pull off to the side of the road and fix it. Why does the academic community assume that they can steer the machine to truth when the flows of scientific information are governed by "perverse incentives"?

...without knowing for what the patent was.
But it's awfully predictable how a company that has sold it's brand for 3rd party generic smartphone manufacturing and is being relegated to a part of smartphone history would now resort to becoming a patent troll business, what with it's history:

- of litigations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- of giving away the keys to the kingdom: https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
- writting a tone deaf blog post about it: http://blogs.blackberry.com/20...
- and then daring to continue labeling their phones as "most secure" for some reason: https://us.blackberry.com/smar...

This company should've been long dead by now.

Outdated apps in what sense? They were good enough in 2017, why will they suddenly become not good enough in 2018?

First, you're implying that 2017 was that last time some of these apps were updated. As this report notes, its been happening for years with WP apps. In some cases, apps that haven't been updated in years are the only ones available. Second, for those apps that have been updated recently does not mean that they have the latest and greatest features on par with other versions. Take for example this Twitter for WP comment.

It takes way too long for this app to catch up to Twitter's new features. As of the date of this review (11/13/17), it still does not support 280-character tweets, even though the website and Twitter apps for other platforms have supported the longer tweets for about a week. Also, it's been over a year and a half since Twitter introduced the ability to describe pictures to the visually impaired, yet the Twitter app for Windows still can't do this.

And that's if the app is bug free. As many WP users have noted, popular apps are crashing all the time because the developers barely update them to fix them. For example, Facebook has a great deal of instability and bugginess. And that's a Facebook which can afford decent programmers. It seems to that Facebook doesn't care about WP users or they can't get it right with their billions of dollars. I would guess it's more that WP users aren't enough for them to care.

I've pointed this out elsewhere, but to give you an answer that's probably closer to the truth than people would like to admit, it's almost certainly a repeat of an attack from 2015:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/...

GitHub has apparently hosted at times (it may still, I don't know) projects and software, plus the source obviously, to circumvent the "Great Firewall" that's used to censor the Internet in China...and they aren't happy about it, as you can probably guess by the whole terabit of bandwidth directed at them bit.

They really want GitHub offline because it's a very effective tool for activists inside and outside the country to share code to circumvent the government's censorship message, actually let the truth get in about some uncomfortable things they've done past and present... This is basically just China reminding the rest of the world that if they really want to take something off the Internet, inside the firewall or out, they can at least accomplish it in the short term.

It happened for the same reason it happened in 2015:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/...

In short, activists inside and outside of China are using GitHub to write and share code for software to circumvent the government's "Great Firewall" in one way or another...they did not succeed in taking GitHub offline, so they decided to show their technical prowess and their sheer (if amplified) bandwidth abuse potential by conducting a second attack. They're still trying to take GitHub offline, badly, people need to be made more aware this is happening...the last time was only three years ago and it was a shocking attempt at China to try and impose censorship of the Internet, as they see fit, inside the firewall AND out. This isn't a conspiracy theory or conjecture, China are very definitely waging an online "war" of sorts and this is more or less a demonstration of their capabilities.

This doesn't shock me in the least because 90% of brute force attempts on my tiny VPS that hosts my blog come from Chinese IP addresses. It's gotten so bad that I just block the whole country. I download the zone file from http://www.ipdeny.com/

It happened for the same reason it happened in 2015:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/...

In short, activists inside and outside of China are using GitHub to write and share code for software to circumvent the government's "Great Firewall" in one way or another...they did not succeed in taking GitHub offline, so they decided to show their technical prowess and their sheer (if amplified) bandwidth abuse potential by conducting a second attack. They're still trying to take GitHub offline, badly, people need to be made more aware this is happening...the last time was only three years ago and it was a shocking attempt at China to try and impose censorship of the Internet, as they see fit, inside the firewall AND out. This isn't a conspiracy theory or conjecture, China are very definitely waging an online "war" of sorts and this is more or less a demonstration of their capabilities.

Microsoft hasn't said that they're discontinuing Windows Phone 10.

Yes, they have:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Very strong indication that the October release will be the last major build, save for any small patches.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

Anonymous reliable and trustworthy real soon now right, just need the right kind of faith?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

Half a gigabit speeds over wireless and people are running around like crazy worried about their wired carriers ?

Stopping discussion still seems to be overwhelmingly the province of the left.

Here you have a bomb threat directed at the FCC meeting on net Neutrality
https://www.theverge.com/us-wo...

There's at least one Democrat that didn't care about "Sensible Gun Laws" when he opened fire on the congressional baseball team

http://thefederalist.com/2017/...

And lets not forget Rand Pauls neighbor who is doing time now over a "Gardening Dispute"

None of this even touches on the day in and day out insanity of the snowflakes on college campuses.

rmdingler snorted:

The Democrats are saying, "Look we are trying!" while accepting campaign contributions as fast as the Republicans from ISPs.

As legendary former Speaker of the California House Jesse Unruh famously observed:

If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money, and then vote against them, you've got no business being up here.

(Unruh was talking about the California legislature - but the qualification is equally applicable at the national level. Perhap moreso ... )

Even though a Presidential veto and a Republican-dominated House would stand in the way of a 51 vote Senate rejection, the "one vote shy" premise is heartening on the surface... unless you consider these claims don't get held to any scrutiny.

The Democrats are saying, "Look we are trying!" while accepting campaign contributions as fast as the Republicans from ISPs.

This is what? The 5th attempt from Google on the digital payment market?
I love it because apparently Google's strategy on a whole lot of things (messaging for instance) is to keep changing it and promptly abandoning it afterwards to keep the market and potential costumers confused, so that no one knows what to use anymore.
I have something installed called Hands Free! Can I pay with that?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
Oh no, this one was discontinued. Oh, can I pay with Wallet then?
That one was merged with Android Pay and became Google Pay.
But isn't this logo here saying Android Pay?
Oh, but Google Pay now works with that too.
Ah, nice then... next time I'll just pay with cash or credit.

At least they are consolidating the Google digital payment graveyard into a single thing, but man, Google never learns, does it? They could have both a consolidated messaging system and a consolidated digital payment system as well as several other services directly competing with major players by now... but the company completely lost the will and the way of simply commiting to something and keep improving it aside from already estabilished systems.
They can't create anything new and keep focus on it to improve things anymore. Most if not all of the more recent ventures are all like that - they give it a new name, "revamp" the thing, launch it, give it a couple of updates, then abandon the whole thing, and start preparing for the next round of renaming, revamping and launching again.
It's just fucking stupid.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Bill Gates is building a city in Arizona. https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Granted it hasn't been tested on humans (not that we know of, maybe in China?) but it's only a matter of time. I'm sure there will be a market from celebrity women not willing to lose their figure over pregnancy and not wanting to go through the hassle of surrogacy.

So is it now feasible to talk about colonizing other worlds without having (living) humans going there? Send a spacecraft capable of creating it's own eggs (and having frozen sperm which I believe are easier to keep) and have the embryos develop and come to term in the artificial wombs. Decant them and have them raised by A.I. robots. If you're worried about genetic damage from long term exposure to cosmic rays made worse by high speed interstellar travel, consider creating the human genome from scratch (the Human Genome Write project started a year or two ago).

I think there were a number of science fiction stories that used this device to propagate the species over vast distances. In one, I believe the new humans eventually managed to create a self-sustaining colony but there were significant problems in organizing a society at first because of the psychological damage from having non-human parents. Anyway, in a last ditch save the species plan, it would allow for a much smaller number (zero?) of female astronauts to provide the necessary services.

Good behind the scenes analysis of why Waymo's case was flimsy here from Sarah Jeong, a lawyer and journalist who has been live tweeting the trial:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16993208/waymo-v-uber-tria...

That link wasn't clickable for me. Here it is as a clickable link: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16993208/waymo-v-uber-trial-trade-secrets-lidar

Remember how Tesla's first car was a toy for rich people.

Apparently, it can also serve as an interplanetary probe.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars

I think Google also has a music service?

You mean Google Play Music? Or are we talking Youtube? Or maybe Youtube Music? Or are we talking about the new streaming service they are building (seriously):
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

My question: is there anyone here that fails to see the problem with this marketing strategy?

Alexa can already differentiate between different voices:

https://www.theverge.com/circu...

There could very well be some upcoming feature that limits certain commands to certain voices (and is user-defined). There have been a lot of features added in the last year.

Generally, though, there aren't many people in my house that aren't my family and friends, so I'm not too worried.

AOL itself went away eventually - not nearly as long ago as many think. . . but the September that Never Ended did not.

When it comes to trolling, I will be most grateful if anyone presents clear-cut example(s) of what Russians are alleged to have exposed to us.

So, I take it you didn't follow any of the links in the summary, like say this one https://www.theverge.com/2018/... or this one https://blog.twitter.com/offic...

Why are you bothering to comment if you aren't even interested enough to follow the links?

you could have tried a google search, too: https://www.google.com/search?...

Read the TFA (the one about 'a day of outcry' - https://www.theverge.com/2018/... ).
What really happened;

- Bushnell wearing a T-shirt that said ”I love to fuck.”
- In a Playboy profile from 2012, Bushnell wistfully recalls the “wild environment” of the ‘70s Atari era.
- The engineers at Atari codenamed their projects after attractive female employees; “Darlene,” the codename for the home version of Pong, was inspired by a woman who Bushnell described to Playboy as “stacked.” (was this common back in the day? the Amiga also has all its chips named after woman, maybe it's a form of flattery?)
- They “held meetings in hot tubs, drank heavily, experimented with drugs... Sometimes Atari board meetings seemed more like fraternity parties than business meetings.”

Good thing they are not handing out the price to Bushnell, what an animal, what a disgrace to the human race.
What the hell people, who got actually hurt in all of this?

Profit driven research doesn't tend to innovate.

Go tell that to Elon Musk.

I suspect Elon might agree with the GP, given that his two most visible enterprises are having trouble earning a profit:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Don't get me wrong, I respect Elon Musk for his devotion to the long game (setting aside alleged labor scandals at his companies.) The point is that innovation is expensive -- you need deep pockets or an alternate source of revenue in order to make bold new ideas happen. That's why government has a role to play in the funding of research that the private sector is not likely to have the fortitude to pursue.

Profit driven research doesn't tend to innovate.

Go tell that to Elon Musk.

I suspect Elon might agree with the GP, given that his two most visible enterprises are having trouble earning a profit:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Don't get me wrong, I respect Elon Musk for his devotion to the long game (setting aside alleged labor scandals at his companies.) The point is that innovation is expensive -- you need deep pockets or an alternate source of revenue in order to make bold new ideas happen. That's why government has a role to play in the funding of research that the private sector is not likely to have the fortitude to pursue.

Apple has refused to repair any of our nearly forty affected devices at work. They give excuses like the finish is rubbed off therefore they cannot replace the battery. On my personal 6S Plus, there's a ding on the corner, and they said they can't replace the battery at any price because of that.

There is an update in the works to shut the part of the PM system off that caused this, it will put you where you would have been if this feature had not been implemented. After that there is a $29 battery replacement on offer:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
Did they said no to you showing up with a box containing every single iPhone you could find and angrily demanding forty free battery replacements?

It's like the budget reincarnation package for someone who has never done anything bad, but contributed nothing to society: you get to live a shitty life in a shitty world as a hideous burrowing scrotum with claws and teeth but you're blind anyway, feel no pain, and never age or stop fucking.

investors are confident their investment will yield exponential returns from some new tech we havent seen or current/old tech we haven't seen utilized in a new way

It could also be that investors are betting that Tesla is going to make it big on first-mover advantage and network effect.

Right now, all the electric cars are great second cars. For short trips around town, commuting to work, etc. a Nissan Leaf is great. But if you want to take a long road trip for any reason, you aren't taking that Nissan Leaf. You use your gasoline car.

All the electric cars, except Tesla. Tesla's Supercharger network is something that they have paid huge money to put together, and it means that you really can have just a Tesla as your only car. Long road trips? Just stop at a Supercharger and eat a snack or something while your car charges.

Only Tesla has the Supercharger network and cars that can use it. With any other brand of car, charging will take at least twice as long.

Assuming that Tesla can get their production line running smoothly for the Model 3, they can sell a lot of cars each year. And they are going to make money on each of those cars.

Right now, Tesla is losing lots of money, but it's not being wasted. They invested in R&D to develop the new Model 3, the new Semi, and the new sports car. They invested in equipment to make the Model 3. They invested in their own battery factory so they can get the lowest cost on batteries.

So the best possible scenario for Tesla: they get the Model 3 production line flowing and sell nearly half a million cars in 2018, and by 2019 or 2020 they are all caught up on back orders and selling over half a million Model 3s each year. They make a lot of money per car due to low cost on the batteries. All those cars use the Tesla Supercharger network, and lots of friends and family of Tesla owners get rides in the new cars and decide they want Teslas also, leading to more orders for Model 3s. Then they start selling lots of Semis, they finish the Model Y and sell lots of those, and they wind up owning a large chunk of the battery electric vehicle market. People start buying Teslas because they are confident in the charging network, and Tesla can afford to build out the charging network even more because they are now finally making money, and it snowballs. Then one or more factories in Europe come on line, making batteries and cars, and Tesla starts selling over a million cars per year. And the factory in Shanghai comes on line and they sell even more. Where does it end? Could Tesla grow to be the size of Honda?

Note that nothing in that scenario assumes new tech we haven't seen, or really even old tech we haven't seen utilized in a new way. It just assumes that Tesla wins big by being the first company to get volumes up and costs down enough to really sell a battery electric vehicle at a price people can afford. Plus Tesla wins in the Semi space by being the first company with a viable product.

Tesla also has a fairly wild plan, where they finish the full (level 5) self-driving features; they get legal approval for the cars to drive around on their own; and Tesla owners can opt-in to have their cars driving in an Uber-like carsharing service called Tesla Network. Imagine people have their cars drive them to work. Then, while they are at work, their cars join themselves to the service, and drive around picking people up and dropping them off; the people get paid for the trips their cars make, and then when it's time for them to go home for the day their cars automatically release themselves from the service and go to pick them up and drive them home. Thus a l

Citation needed, and no, the US Army's claims that lack supporting evidence do not count - especially given they generally include the word "may".

Sure, DJI is definitely doing *some* data collection (as are most of the action cam/drone systems, either directly through the device or through on-line accounts associated with it) because they tell you so, but they're also claiming to be actively taking steps to improve enduser privacy and have blocked third party apps that have been caught doing so. Like MS Windows' telemetry, it's 100% clear that some data is being collected, but the actual extent of it seems to be based mostly speculation and rumour rather than fact and I've yet to see any really definitive articles that quantify with actual proof the scope of what is being collected and what countermeasures a privacy concious user might take to minimise the "damage" (and any operational compromises those countermeasures might entail). For instance, you claim that DJI is tracking location data in realtime using your phone, which is certainly possible, but the handset-drone comms uses the controller radio transmitter and the phone is USB tethered, so you should be able to put the phone into flight mode and simulate being in an area with no reception - or even just *be* in an area with no reception to prevent that from happening - unless they retrospectively upload it later, but again, I've not seen any definitive articles with evidence to back this up.

So, for anyone considering a drone purchase or that already has one and is getting concerned about the levels of tracking, does anyone have any decent links on this?

what, a 3d printed face mask isnt enought? https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Of course it's not enough, and not even close to being as trivially easy as a photograph. If somebody has the resources and motivation to obtain a 3D scan of a person's face and then 3D print a mask, do you really think a fingerprint scanner would be any more secure against such a person?

what, a 3d printed face mask isnt enought? https://www.theverge.com/2017/...