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How to use all of Apple Map’s new features

CompuScoop Staff February 3, 2020 0

On January 30th, Apple announced that their redesigned Maps, with new features and faster, more accurate navigation and comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and more, had rolled out to the entire United States. Next, Apple Maps will begin rolling it out across Europe in the coming months. Building on the new mapping data, iOS 13 introduced many new features that help users navigate and explore the world with a simple tap.

The new features include sharing your ETA with a contact to keep them updated on your location and time of arrival. There’s also a new Apple-made feature called Look Around that’s akin to Google’s Street View.

As of iOS 13.1, you can share your estimated time of arrival with a friend through Apple Maps, iMessage or text when you’re using Apple Maps navigation. Here’s how:

Start Apple Maps navigation and get turn-by-turn directions to a location.
When viewing current directions, swipe up on the bottom of the area that displays your arrival time and shows the end button.
Tap the Share ETA button.
Select the contact or contacts with whom you want to share it.

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China State Media: China’s Coronavirus Hospital Built in 10 Days and opens its doors

CompuScoop Staff February 3, 2020 0

[NBCNews]: A 1,000-bed hospital built in just 10 days to handle the coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan, China, opened its doors to its first patients Monday.

The Huoshenshan Hospital was built specifically to handle patients infected with the novel coronavirus that has sickened thousands of people and left more than 360 dead. It is on the outskirts of Wuhan, a city with 11 million residents, where the outbreak is believed to have originated.

On Monday, the hospital — which covers 60,000 square meters (645,000 square feet) — welcomed its first patients, according to Chinese state media. There was no information about the patients or their conditions.

Construction began Jan. 24 with a crew of 7,000 people working around the clock. Chinese state media carried live video of the construction site and showed the sheer scale and speed of the project.

A second dedicated hospital with 1,300 beds is also expected to be ready later this week.

Image: — Medical equipment at the Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan.AP

China's state news agency Xinhua reported Sunday the new hospital has a capacity for 1,000 beds, intensive care units and sections for diagnosis and infection control.

Hundreds of doctors and medical personnel have been drafted in from China's military to treat patients at the hospital, Xinhua also said.

Many of the 1,400 medical specialists have worked in the past to treat severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS, which the new coronavirus is related to, and the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the agency added.

China Central Television on Monday quoted project manager Fang Xiang, whose team worked on the hospital, as saying that a project of this scale usually takes at least two years.

"It takes at least a month to construct a temporary building, not to mention a new hospital for infectious diseases," he said, according to CCTV.

Thousands of workers worked in shifts to complete the construction, CCTV said.

China's state CGTN network showed a video of several workers who said they slept only two hours in three days while completing the construction of the hospital.

It’s not the first time China has had to build a specialized medical facility on a tight deadline. During the SARS epidemic in 2003, a hospital in Beijing was constructed in just a week.

Wuhan has been on lockdown for nearly two weeks with millions of its inhabitants barred from leaving the city. The Chinese government has not yet signaled when the lockdown could be lifted.

Yuliya Talmazan is a London-based journalist.

Various Apple Arcade Characters ‘take over’ Apple.com

Dan Uff February 2, 2020 0

When you go to Apple.com and scroll down the page, various characters from different games appear on the website.

Give it a try :-)

Apple to close all mainland China stores due to virus outbreak

Reuters News February 1, 2020 0

Apple Inc on Saturday said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until Feb 9. as fears over the coronavirus outbreak mounted and the death toll more than doubled to over 250 from a week ago.

Via: Reuters