Security professionals and AI experts say that the "one in a million" failure rate Apple boasted about today is "meaningless." Of the smorgasbord of features stuffed into Apple s new thousand-dollar iPhone X, one of the most intriguing is Face ID — a new feature that lets you unlock your iPhone with your face, after the system has learned your facial features using Apple’s first-ever neural engine. “How do you unlock your phone with iPhone X?” asked Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, onstage at today’s iPhone event. “In the iPhone X, your phone is locked — until you look at it, and it recognizes you. Nothing has ever been simpler, more natural, and effortless.” Here’s how it works: Apple deploys various sensors working in tandem to recognize your face in an instant, using what it calls the TrueDepth camera system. First, a dot projector beams more than 30,000 invisible dots onto your face to...
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