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  • ChromeOS suddenly shows “‘Final Update’ Notifications”

    Some users use the ChromeOS operating system receive “final update” notifications, that is, no further features and security updates will be provided. How can ChromeOS, which is still developing smoothly, suddenly stop being supported by Google? The Google development team had problems building ChromeOS, and some of the error codes issued a notification to stop support leading to this incident.

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    It’s worth noting that this incident is the ChromeOS Canary and developer versions, and the users of this beta version are almost all developers. So after receiving the stop support notification, these developers are still relatively calm. After feedback, Google confirmed that there is a bug in the ChromeOS build process. Google has currently removed the code that caused this incident from the new version, but users may have to wait for the next update of ChromeOS to see the error notification.

    Google usually provides five years of support for Chromebook laptops with the operating system, and Google will stop sending software updates to these devices when it expires. However, ChromeOS as Google’s operating system will not stop updating in a short time, unless the future is completely merged with the FuchsiaOS system.

  • ChromeOS will have fingerprint and face authentication feature

    Google has not yet supported any form of biometric authentication fingerprint on its Chrome OS platform. Although Apple and Microsoft’s competing devices have long allowed users to choose to use some biometric authentication, whether it is native or through peripherals, Google has long since fallen behind, but now this situation may soon end.

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    A document from Chromium Gerrit shows that Google will provide face unlocking for ChromeOS, and related texts contained in OOBE have also been exposed in recent days. These texts include “Set up your fingerprint” and “Place your finger”. Indicates that Google is preparing to add support for fingerprint sensors to ChromeOS. Another short video found in the development version of Chrome OS 70 shows the setup process on the side-mounted fingerprint scanner.

    Google recently announced a new hardware campaign for its Pixel product within a month. We saw that the update of Pixelbook last year also makes sense. If Google is rolling out an update, the question remains whether the company will now provide biometric authentication on its laptop, or announce it and enable it in future updates.

    Via: androidpolice