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Dad claims Apple watch ‘saved his life’ after it detected heart condition

I wonder, if I'd had the newest Apple watch back in 2017, would it have caught my own heart condition? I knew something was up but my doctor thought it was neurological; it took me collapsing at work and my heart pausing for 15 seconds, then 30 seconds, and then my heart rate dropping to 19 for us to find out I have a total heart block.

As a technology journalist, Paul Hutton, 48, decided to buy the watch to try out the new gadget. But when it kept warning him of a resting heart rate below 40 beats a minute, he took himself to the doctor. A healthy adult should have a resting heart rate of around 60-100 beats a minute. Doctors diagnosed him with ventricular bigeminy – meaning that every other heart beat was significantly weaker and was not being picked up by the heart monitor.

Mr Hutton underwent cardiac ablation surgery at Basildon University Hospital last month. 

During the procedure, electrodes were fed into his heart via an artery in his groin.

These recorded his heart's electrical activity to uncover the area that was causing his arrhythmia.

Energy then traveled through the electrode tips to scar the tissue that was responsible.   

Mr Hutton was conscious, but sedated, throughout the operation.  

'My surgeon was absolutely brilliant,' he said. 

'Once it was done, I had a very welcome cup of tea and was discharged the next day.'

A month later, Mr Hutton appears to be doing well. 

'I keep checking my pulse on my Apple Watch and it all seems good,' he said.

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This year's iPhones, the last with lightning?

This year's iPhones, the last with lightning?

As per usual, rumors encompassing future iPhone are getting down to coalesce into a homogenous set of expectations. the most recent info comes from the very reliable Guilherme Rambo of 9to5Mac, suggesting that this year’s iPhone eleven can are available in 2 sizes (plus a successor to the iPhone XR), have OLED screens on the top tier devices, keep identical resolution across the whole lineup, add a large angle camera, improve the selfie camera, have some type of fancy haptics, and finally: charge via the Lightning connector.

Assuming the rumors are correct, Apple is making the correct move by keeping the Lightning connector this year. Any kind of port change is traumatic and annoying, therefore I can’t blame Apple for needing to avoid it if the least bit doable. however that’s not the explanation i believe it’s the correct decision.Basically: the Lightning connector is, in some ways in which, superior to USB-C. It’s smaller and more tightly controlled by Apple. That second half ensures internal control if you trust Apple and evokes theories regarding Apple making cash through its MFI program if you don’t. regardless of the justification, it’s totally reasonable to stay the Lightning port on the iPhone.

The biggest good thing about switch to USB-C is clearly having identical charger handle your laptop computer, tablet, and phone. It’s with great care rather more convenient. In fact, if firms offered ME the chance to shop for their devices while not associate AC adapter for even a small discount, i might take them informed it in a heartbeat. it'd be higher for the environment, too.

I think this year’s iPhone 11 isn’t the correct phone to try and do it.But next year’s iPhone 12 (or no matter it'll be called)? Switch, it'll be time. Rumors of the 2020 iPhone have already begun, and that they embody a full-screen fingerprint detector and also the death of the notch. It appears like an enormous, exciting new style. it'd even be the type that individuals would line up for and accept a port change on.

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Vision impaired girl's use of iPad impresses Steve Jobs

 

A 9-year-old girl with sight problems has swapped out magnifying glasses and other clunky equipment for  an iPad.
Holly Bligh, 9, has albinism, a genetic condition that affects not only the pigment in her skin, hair and eyes, but also her vision.. To read, teachers had to make photocopies with enlarged text for her or she had to use a magnifying glass or other devices to read.

Thanks to an iPad she now can zoom in and enlarge the text with the touch of a finger. Bligh can also read about twice as long as she could with regular printed material.
Holly's attention span has increased and her mother, Fiona, estimates "visual fatigue" now takes twice as long to set in.
"Holly's very adaptable and she's got a fantastic attitude," Ms Bligh said.
And now she is cool with her schoolmates.
Bligh’s mother wrote Steve Jobs a letter thanking him for “completely changing” her daughter’s life.
“All the other kids think it’s awesome that she gets an iPad!” Fiona Bligh wrote to Jobs. “Sometimes in the past Holly has found her extra equipment embarrassing … But the iPad has a coolness factor!”
Jobs reportedly wrote back:
“Thanks for sharing your experience with me. Do you mind if I read your email to a group of our top 100 leaders at Apple?” Jobs signed off with “Thanks, Steve” and asked for a photo of Holly with her iPad.
Hailed as a “magical device,” the iPad has proved to be a valid learning tool and assistive technology for people with disabilities. The preliminary results of one small study at a school students with a range of physical and mental challenges, including autism and deaf-blindness, show an average of 20 percent improvement in communication abilities from using the devices, according to researchers.
A good round-up of how people are using iPads as learning tools or for assistive technology is available here.
Via Herald Sun 
Via Cult of Mac

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Apple Store vs. Microsoft Store

Same area of town, same time of day.

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Creepiest iPhone bug ever.

Some users are reporting that the iPhone randomly takes pictures of them when they make FaceTime calls:

"...minutes ago when i called my GF and i saw a "picture" of myself from today when i was at the office..."

See the thread here

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Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released.

The iPhone Dev Team has announced that they've officially released their fresh jailbreak tools. Their package, redsn0w and PwnageTool, have been upgraded to jailbreak Apples latest iOS 4.3.1 update.

The Dev Team states :.

The 4.3.1 untether exploit comes up thanks to Stefan Esser (@ i0n1c on twitter), a security research worker based in Germany. Stefan has a long history of vulnerability research, and ironically his first contribution to the iPhone jailbreak community was improved protection last year he beat Apple to the poke and implemented ASLR for jailbroken iPhones with his antid0te framework. Were happy to see that Stefan then turned his iPhone attention over to an untethered jailbreak exploit! .

The jailbreak currently supports the following devices :.

iPhone 3GS.
iPhone 4 (GSM).
iPod Touch 3G and 4G.
iPad 1 .
Apple TV 2G (PwntageTool only).

The clearly seen hardware missing is the iPad 2 but the Team explains that the untether bootrom exploits used in the past do.

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Wireless Mirroring With An iPad 2

Basically, we were tasked with the coming up with ideas that could help a client with their presentations. Sometimes they run Keynote Presentations on a Mac, and sometimes they run Keynote Presentations on an iPad using a VGA adapter. While I liked how mobile you could get doing it off an iPad, you're still literally tethered by the cable running to the the A/V equipment. I knew there had to be some sort of solution, but sadly there wasn't, at least not all in one place. So I started looking at combining different solutions, and luckily, not many were needed. The core components are the wireless HDMI transmitter, and a USB battery pack

Oh, and of course the iPad 2


Via [MacRumors]

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