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I’ve had a long road with the Apple Watch. I bought the original one on release day, but sold it within a few months due to the slowness of watchOS 1. I purchased a Series 2 when it was released, but I ended up returning it a few weeks later. When the Series 3 Apple Watch was released, I ended up buying one to write a review, but returned it before the return period was up (it was around Christmas so I had a longer return period)....

Apple Watch irregular heartbeat detection and the ECG app are being credited with helping save the life of a British father of two. A simple notification on the watch led the 30-year-old to seek answers at the hospital. According to The Sun, doctors were initially skeptical of the Apple Watch reading before confirming Chris Mint’s heart was in Afib using their own machines. The watch warning ultimately led to a corrective heart procedure to avoid a stroke or heart attack....

It looks like the ECG features for Apple Watch Series 4, 5, and 6 are finally coming to South Korea and Russia. This includes the ability to take an ECG as well as receive irregular heart rhythm notifications on Apple Watch. Apple has stated that the new ECG features will be added via the upcoming iOS 14.2 and WatchOS 7.1 software updates. While we aren’t exactly sure when these updates will get a public release, it should be shortly as Apple pushed out the iOS 14....

After Apple decided to allow its researchers to publicly share their findings, its first academic paper was published at the end of last year. Now, that research has just won a “Best Paper Award” at a prestigious machine learning and computer vision conference. The first academic paper to be published in connection with Apple was Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training by Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Josh Susskind, Wenda Wang, Russ Webb Apple Inc....

[slideshow] Check them out: Related articles djay by algoriddim for Mac | $9.99 Version 4.0.6 landed over the weekend with fully loaded Retina graphics. This app, which is a Best of the Mac App Store 2011 runner-up, transforms a Mac into a full-fledged DJ system. It is now compatible with AirPlay on Mountain Lion, and it features fixed playlist folders shown in the djay remote app. Djay has a 4.5-star rating on the App Store with over 300 user reviews as of press time....

Fans can now listen to Rapper Pitbull remake of Toto’s ‘80s hit “Africa” featured on the Aquaman soundtrack. The latest entry in the DCEU, starring Jason Momoa as the titular Aquaman, is already off to a great start after raking in nearly $100 million in its first weekend in China. It remains to be seen if Aquaman will be enough of a hit in the United State to revive the DCEU, as the future of which has been up in the air since the relative failure of last year’s Justice League....

Wednesday’s best deals include notable discounts on all of Apple’s official iPhone 11/Pro/Max cases, plus rare savings on Spigen Apple Watch bands, and Anker is back with a new sale. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple’s official iPhone 11/Pro/Max cases discounted Rare savings on Spigen Apple Watch bands Anker discounts its popular dual Qi charging pads, more Sony CarPlay receivers from $300 Best Buy’s official eBay storefront offers the Sony 6....

Apple has been slowly restoring their Developer Center, and today the company has sent out an email update to developers regarding the restorations to take place this week: Apple’s Developer Center went down a little bit over two weeks ago due to an attempted breach into the system. The site began coming back about a week after that, starting with downloads and documentation. In order to provide developers with information on the restoration progress, Apple rolled out an iCloud-like status page....

Digitimes is out today with a report that states Apple and Samsung are set to introduce wireless charging flagship phones this year. At least with Apple, this is unlikely. We heard 2013 is an ‘S’ year for the iPhone, implying minor design changes with at most the possibility of a fingerprint reader (as well as better cameras, faster processor, and the like), but the design changes to the aluminum shell would need to be significant to make wireless charging possible....

Today’s best deals include Apple Watch SE at nearly $40 off, plus Eve Button goes on sale, and AirPods see a rare refurbished discount. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple Watch SE goes on sale again Apple Watch SE delivers everything you love about Apple’s wearables in a more affordable package. While you’ll miss out on the blood/oxygen sensor of the high-end Series 6 models, there’s still a big Retina OLED display, fitness tracking, and a fully swimproof design to check out here....

We’re halfway through the work week and all of the best deals are flowing in with a refurbished Apple Watch Series 6 discount to $250. That’s alongside being able to save $250 on both sizes of M1 Pro MacBook Pros as well as the HomeKit-enabled Sensibo Air smart controller at $90. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple Watch Series 6 refurb styles hit $250 Today only, Woot is now discounting a selection of certified refurbished Apple Watch models....

Apple has officially announced the Apple Watch Ultra. This is the rumored ‘Apple Watch Pro’ version of the Series 8. It features a dedicated “action” button and larger digital crown. Pre-orders start today ahead of the September 23 release date. Read on for price and specs! Apple Watch Ultra Here’s what you need to know: 36 hour battery life on single charge Up to 60 hours battery life with upcoming software feature...

Other than the notable apps and updates below, developers of Shazam, the “9th most downloaded app of all time,” announced today its song recognition service has been used to identify over 5 billion songs. The five billionth tagged song on Shazam was “Blow Me One Last Kiss” by Pink. Head below for our full list of new apps and updates hitting the App Store today: Sparrow for Mac version 1.6.3: Sparrow’s Mac App Store app was updated today with a number of performance enhancements and fixes....

Apple will report its fiscal first quarter results tomorrow for the October to December 2011 period during which the Cupertino, Calif.-based company saw the death of its cofounder and the record-breaking sales of its latest iPhone. Apple passed the $400 billion market cap briefly last week, and it is the world’s second most valuable company after Exxon Mobil Corp. Its 2007-debut of the iPhone effectively piloted the touchscreen smartphone market, meanwhile the iPad carved a new consumer electronics category for the industry, as well....

Apple’s popular Remote App hasn’t been updated for months, most likely because the software was developed by just one man who has picked up other tasks within Apple’s start-up style culture. Posterous CEO Sachin Agarwal tells us what he knows about the app, pointing out that it is the work of a good friend of his, he then offers some valuable insights into how Apple does what it does. “Apple doesn’t build large teams to work on every product they make....

As Apple is about to finally flip the switch on a massive 500,000 square feet datacenter in North Carolina, said to be one of the biggest in the world, TechCrunch heard the company’s rumored iOS 5 voice recognition technology is driven by Nuance Communications’ technology that runs in the Apple cloud. A formal announcement is expected next month at WWDC, the publication claims. Nuance is behind Dragon Dictation, a free iOS app enabling advanced voice recognition on iOS devices....

Two weeks following its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has seeded a second beta of the upcoming iOS 7 to developers. The new seed is available in iOS Settings via the Software Update section. It should arrive on Apple’s Developer Portal as a full download later today. The new beta likely focuses on performance improvements and bug fixes as this is what Apple tends to focus on during major iOS release beta phases....

In a new WWDC session video today, Apple has elaborated on the system architecture of the forthcoming Apple Silicon Mac transition. Notably, this will mean a few changes to the experience, including a new macOS Recovery options screen, as well as the deprecation of Target Disk Mode. Currently, you can access a variety of macOS Recovery features at boot-up, but each one requires a different key combination. As detailed by Jason Snell at Six Colors, you can hold Command-R for Recovery mode, or erase NVRAM by holding Option–Command–P–R....

As 2018 winds down, many of Apple’s in-progress retail projects are beginning to wrap up. Overnight, the company announced online that its store at Southlake Town Square in Southlake, Texas will reopen on Saturday, November 3rd at 10:00 A.M .Apple Southlake Town Square closed on March 4th for renovations. Changes to the store have been fairly significant and extend beyond a simple expansion. Apple has essentially redeveloped the entire lot the 2006-era store occupies with a new building....

A new report from Canalys shows that Apple’s phones accounted for 22% of smartphone shipments globally at the end of 2021. Canalys noted that the last time Apple ranked number one in the smartphone market was in Q4 of 2020. “Apple saw unprecedented iPhone performance in Mainland China, with aggressive pricing for its flagship devices keeping the value proposition strong,” Canalys analyst Sanyam Chaurasia said in a statement. “Apple’s supply chain is starting to recover, but it was still forced to cut production in Q4 amid shortages of key components and could not make enough iPhones to meet demand....