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The camera for Apple’s iPad and Watch event last month zoomed around the spaceship-shaped headquarters, inspirational, thumping orchestral music playing as it rose up to meet the clear blue sky and shining sun before dropping down to a transition shot to find CEO Tim Cook walking the glass-lined halls of the corporate HQ. A large …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. President Donald Trump‘s case of COVID-19 gave an obscure photo data technology called EXIF its 15 minutes of internet fame as people started scrutinizing photos taken of him this weekend at Walter Reed hospital. But what exactly is EXIF? In short, it’s a …

Samsung has another Galaxy S20 for its fans, and the device has been tailored for our unusual times. The Galaxy S20 Fan Edition, also known as the Galaxy S20 FE, packs some high-end features found in the rest of the S20 lineup — like low-band 5G connectivity — but at a starting price of $700 (£699, AU$999). That’s $300 less than …

Get Tim Cook talking about privacy, renewable energy or even the coronavirus pandemic, and he’s happy to give you his perspective. Talk about President Donald Trump, and he almost immediately wants to change the topic. The dynamic played out several times with Cook, who participates in only a handful of interviews per year, while talking with the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey …

Samsung’s developers conference will take a break this year, as the novel coronavirus pandemic makes it impossible to gather thousands of people in one place.  The company said on its developer website that it has canceled its 2020 Samsung Developer Conference and that it’s “disappointed that we will not be hosting the event this year and getting the chance to …

Apple’s new Apple Watch Series 6 goes all-in on health care, including a new feature to measure blood oxygen level — a vital sign that’s been helpful monitoring COVID-19, among other things. Other gadgets that do this known as blood, or pulse, oximeters have been around for ages and have become something of a hot commodity during the coronavirus pandemic.  …

The new Series 6 Apple Watch, unveiled Tuesday, can measure people’s blood oxygen levels in 15 seconds, Apple claims. Blood oxygen levels are an indicator of the severity of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. “With Apple Watch Series 6, you can measure your blood oxygen right from your wrist,” Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer, said on Tuesday. …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Contact-tracing apps have consistently been hailed by governments as a key tool in fighting the spread of COVID-19, but we’ve yet to see many of them released to the public. On Thursday morning I awoke to discover a COVID-19 contact-tracing app was finally …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple’s iPhone and iPad design teams have developed face masks that the company reportedly plans to offer to its retail employees to help protect them while working amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new masks, earlier reported by Bloomberg and MacRumors, have a three-layer …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Citizen, an app that lets you see unverified crime reports in your neighborhood, has often been used to advance false claims. One doozy: a tiger reportedly loose in Manhattan that turned out to be a raccoon. Now the company wants to help cities track …