Google tests biometric support for Android autofill service

While other password managers already support biometrics for autofill, it's a case of better late than never for Google. The company is testing biometric support for its autofill password manager on Android. 

XDA Developers discovered the feature, which looks like it supports both fingerprint sensor and face unlock, as well as anything that uses Google's new biometric API. So, it will work with the iris scanners available on some of Samsung's handsets.

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CES 2020: Samsung Ballie demonstrates future AI, smart home plans

CES 2020: Samsung Ballie demonstrates future AI, smart home plans

A scene-stealer at Samsung's Consumer Electronics Show keynote comes in the form of an adorable, rolling smart home control center that reminds us of a mix between Star Wars' BB-8 and a tennis ball. Ballie, as it is called, represents the company's future home robot strategy.

Ballie has a plastic, scalloped frame, which gives it a sense of playfulness. It's like having a little ball follow you around at home. Samsung won't dish much about what Ballie's hardware will be. But it doesn't seem to be using Samsung's home-made Exynos processors to power it. It has a single camera for object and person detection, and it handles all image processing directly on-device. It supposedly can't record and store footage of its surroundings entirely, which may or may not appease privacy concerns.

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CES 2020: OnePlus Concept One offers solution for pesky camera bumps

Maybe you're not a fan of unusual, pesky camera bumps that slightly jut out of the back of your phone. OnePlus has a solution for you (sort of). The company collaborated once again with McLaren to introduce the OnePlus Concept One. It is technically a vamped up OnePlus 7T Pro with a papaya-hued leather that the automaker is known for; but, it also has another material inspired by McLaren: the glass it uses for its sunroofs.

The rear cameras of the OnePlus Concept One are hidden under an incredibly thin slice of material called electrochromic glass. The glass can turn from opaque to transparent when a voltage is applied to it. OnePlus used four ultra-fine layers of solitary glass panels and the thinnest electrochromic glass in the industry right in the middle of that. The OnePlus Concept One's glass can shift from opaque to transparent in just 0.7 seconds, which the company claims is another industry speed record.

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