Month: July 2024

Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite now available to iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users in Japan

Apple Inc July 31, 2024 0

Apple’s revolutionary safety service, Emergency SOS via satellite, is now available to iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users in Japan.

This innovative technology allows users to send messages to emergency services even when they’re outside of cellular or Wi-Fi coverage.

Additionally, users can now share their location with friends and family while traveling off the grid by opening the Find My app and selecting “Share My Location via Satellite.”

Every model in the iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 lineup can connect directly to a satellite through a combination of custom-designed components and deeply integrated software. Emergency SOS via satellite builds on existing iPhone features like Emergency SOS, Medical ID, emergency contacts, and Find My location sharing, providing users with a more comprehensive approach to sharing critical information with emergency services, family, and friends.

This groundbreaking service enhances the capabilities of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) — or emergency services call centers — by enabling them to connect with even more users in emergency situations. It doesn’t require any additional software or protocols to set up, and users are directly connected to emergency services equipped to receive text messages or to relay centers with Apple-trained emergency specialists who can contact PSAPs that may not be able to receive text messages on the user’s behalf.

Via: Apple, Inc.

iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 include new ‘Catch Up’ feature

CompuScoop Staff July 30, 2024 0

On Monday, Apple released iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 which the include new ‘Catch Up’ feature in the TV app alongside important bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.

iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 both include Catch Up, a new feature in the TV app built specifically for sports viewers. Here’s how it works:

When joining a live stream for a game in progress, viewers can catch up on the action by watching a series of clips of highlights that have already happened during the game.

The Key Plays carousel is offered when you select a game in progress from the TV app main menu. You can also access it any time later, from the video player controls menu.

Catch Up is available as part of MLS Season Pass, Apple’s subscription service dedicated to the American soccer league.

Apple is expected to always be in discussion for more sports rights, so it’s likely that Catch Up will be expanded to other sports offerings in the future.

Via: 9to5Mac.com

Neuralink rival Synchron’s brain implant lets people control Apple Vision Pro with their minds

CompuScoop Staff July 30, 2024 0

Neurotech company Synchron has made a breakthrough by connecting its brain implant to Apple’s Vision Pro headset. This integration allows patients with limited mobility to operate the headset solely through their thoughts, marking a significant advancement in brain-computer interface technology.

Synchron is building a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, designed to help patients with paralysis operate technology like smartphones and computers with their minds. The company has implanted its BCI in six patients in the U.S. and four in Australia. It still needs approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to commercialize its technology more broadly.

Apple released the Vision Pro earlier this year, and users typically control it with eye movements, voice commands and hand gestures. Synchron has been working to make it accessible to patients who can’t speak or move their upper limbs.

Synchron CEO Thomas Oxley said he thinks  Apple’s iOS accessibility platform is best in class, which is why the company has initially focused on helping patients control devices within Apple’s ecosystem. He said Synchron will likely work to connect its BCI to other headsets, but it’s starting with the Vision Pro.

Apple has been “very supportive” of the Vision Pro integration, he added.

“I think BCI is very well placed to add huge value as a synergistic integration into the  Apple ecosystem,” Oxley told CNBC in an interview.

Via: CNBC.com

Apple TV+ series ‘For All Mankind’ creator Ronald D. Moore give update on ‘Star City’ spin-off

CompuScoop Staff July 30, 2024 0

n April,  Apple TV+ renewed its globally acclaimed, hit space drama “For All Mankind” for season five and announced a new spinoff series “Star City.” The creator of both series, Ronald D. Moore, has given an update on the widely anticipated new series.

“We’re in the writing period of the spin-off series, which is Star City, which is very exciting,” he said.

He gave a nod to Apple for their support, adding,

“I’m very happy that Apple was supportive of that whole concept and to do it and to tell the story from the cosmonaut point of view and how the Russians got to the moon first and what it was like to work in that program.”

Time jumps have been a signature of For All Mankind, and Moore hinted at similar plans for Star City. “We know we are gonna jump through time. We haven’t quite got to that point yet. It’s probably still a in-the-decade, or so, jump ahead. We don’t know if we’re gonna do exactly what the Mankindjumps were or if we’ll try to split them in the middle.” These jumps will allow the show to explore advancements in the Soviet space program without getting bogged down in a single timeframe.

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