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The Apple Watch is again being credited with saving a user’s life. As reported by News Corp Australia, Kate Donald suffers from epilepsy, and her Apple Watch alerted family members when she suffered a seizure while home alone, triggering fall detection. The report explains that Kate’s seizures can be triggered by a lack of sleep. When her husband noticed she wasn’t feeling right, he arranged to have her three kids out of the house so she could catch up on sleep....

Apple is proud of its environmental credentials, and publishes an annual Environmental Responsibility Report to describe its goals and the actions taken to achieve them. But the company has now gone further, and published a specific environmental report on the upcoming iPhone X. The four-page report details everything from the breakdown of materials used to produce both the phone and its packaging, through to the greenhouse gas emissions involved in every stage from production to eventual recycling …...

M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ show Servant hasn’t even premiered yet and it already has fans. Sure they are critics who got early screenings but how else are we going to get hyped up about potential binge-worthy TV shows? Servant follows a young couple who experience the loss of a child. As an attempt to help them grieve, the couple welcomes one of those very life-like baby dolls into the home....

Apple surprised everyone today with a refresh of the Apple TV and unveiling a new version of the remote, after the glass trackpad version received so much criticism. Here are a couple little changes that you might have missed … New Apple TV Remote Sold Separately The new Apple TV remote will be available separately. If you don’t want to upgrade to the new Apple TV 4K with A12 processor, you will be able to buy the new Apple TV remote on its own, priced at $59....

Apple’s hooking up music creators on iOS with lots of new software updates and features today. In addition to releasing a new Music Memos app and enhancing GarageBand for iPad Pro and iPhone 6s, Apple’s Logic Remote app which works with both GarageBand, Logic Pro X, and MainStage on the Mac has been updated with full iPad Pro support and an iPhone version for the first time. Logic Remote is a companion app for Apple’s audio programs on OS X that lets you use multi-touch on the iPad and now the iPhone to control the desktop apps....

As September is closing in, new reveals about the 2018 iPhones are raising the hype bar even more. According to the latest news from notorious Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, 2018 iPhones will come in brand new color variants. This fall Apple will introduce the upcoming iPhones in blue and Orange color avatars. Exciting isn’t it..? Also Read iToolab RecoverGo (Android) Fix: Apple Wallet Not Showing Add Card Option Usually, we know of the usual set of colors include silver, gold, grey and two different shades of black....

In 2016, Apple was ordered to pay 13 billion euros to Ireland as repayment for back taxes at a rate that the EU deemed was illegal. Both Apple and Ireland appealed the judgment. Four years on, the first round of legal battles have come to a conclusion today: the EU court rejected the ruling which essentially means Ireland and Apple won. However, the EU commission will almost certainly appeal. A final decision on a corporate judgment of this scale will take many, many, years to resolve....

After closing the majority of its retail locations across the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apple has cautiously begun to reopen select stores as local conditions permit. Following South Korea, Apple Stores in Australia and a single location in Austria are scheduled to reopen within 1-2 weeks, according to a statement by Tim Cook to Bloomberg. Nearly all Apple Stores in Australia are located within enclosed shopping centers. Unlike in the U....

It’s not quite what you expect to see on those minimalist Apple Store tables: a stack of paper slips, a stapler and an old-school manual card-swipe machine – but that’s what some stores had to resort to after their Point Of Sale systems went down yesterday. Store staff normally process sales with iPod Touches in cases which combine a cardreader with an external battery. Some customers were reporting that the system outage lasted several hours and affected their ability to collect their Retina iPad Minis, bought online with the Personal Pickup option....

Pinterest today debuted a new type of post that users can expect to see showing up in their feeds soon. The new “app pin” shows additional information, such as an app’s developer, when users link to software in the iOS App Store. These new pins feature a prominent “Install” button that opens a standard App Store preview pane and allows users to install an app without ever having to leave Pinterest....

Great, another Apple Store to lure me into buying more iGoods on my commute :D The New York Observer is reporting that Apple is considering putting an Apple Store inside the iconic New York Grand Central Terminal. The process, unfortunately, isn’t a straightforward one: The main concourse, shown below, would seem to offer the up-scale type of setting that Apple is after and the stores within its corridors are already filled with commuter foot traffic....

Apple’s upcoming wearable device, based on iOS, will run third-party applications and, furthermore, may come equipped with an App Store, according to two sources with knowledge of the new device. It is currently unclear if the App Store will be full-fledged, like on the iPhone and iPad, or if it will be a special section with in the iPhone App Store for apps that play nicely with the new wearable device....

The apply() collection is bundled with r essential package if you install R with Anaconda. The apply in R function can be feed with many functions to perform redundant application on a collection of object (data frame, list, vector, etc.). The purpose of apply() is primarily to avoid explicit uses of loop constructs. They can be used for an input list, matrix or array and apply a function. Any function can be passed into apply()....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q9w0dxosTE] (We got a look at the Tab 7.7 before it was pulled) Apple won a pretty significant victory today in its attempts to block Samsung from selling its iPad competitor products in Germany and in greater Europe. This week’s IFA show is a CES-like pan-European event which showcases new consumer products from just about everyone except Apple. Most of the buzz this year however is around two of Samsung’s new products, the Galaxy Tab 7....

In past years, Apple has held “Tech Talk World Tours” for developers, covering their latest version of iOS. Now that iOS 5 has been released into the wild, Apple has announced that the iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour will kick off on November 2nd in Germany and end in Austin, Texas on January 23rd. The conference described by Apple: This year’s tour will take place in Seattle, New York, Austin, Texas, Berlin, London, Rome, Beijing, Seoul, and São Paulo....

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Apple and its suppliers are testing versions of the iPad and iPhone with larger displays. Due to mounting competition from hardware competitors like Samsung, a larger-screened iPhone has long been expected and rumored. However, this is one of the first specific claims for a larger sized iPad. In March of this year, an unverified claim emerged for a 12.9-inch iPad model being in the works with a rather unlikely name....

The State of Arizona today announced that Apple is planning to build a new manufacturing facility in the city of Mesa, Arizona. The facility will create 700 jobs for manufacturing, and an additional 1,300 jobs for the construction and management of the new facility, In total, Apple will be bringing at least 2,000 new jobs to the United States thanks to this new facility. In addition to the manufacturing facility, Apple will be constructing a new solar power grid in the city to power the manufacturing operations, according to Arizona’s announcement:...

And even if this particular speculation proves incorrect, we think the commentator has come up with some compelling suggestions and effective reasons for Apple to make such a move – there’s money in it… Peter S. Magnusson, founder of Virtutech, has gone on the record to predict the introduction of Apple TV 3.0 at today’s event – and his predictions make good reading, even as a simple list.. Apple TV 3....

watchOS 4 added a new feature to existing Apple Watches last fall that has regularly been credited with saving lives: the ability to detect an elevated heart rate during a period of inactivity. Just this week, two more examples of Apple Watch playing a crucial role in improving lives around the world have been reported. In Englad, The Independent reports: After blood work and further heart rate monitoring, doctors said he definitely experienced an “event” and the same symptoms could be a sign of a heart attack....

Today’s best deals include Apple Watch Series 5 up to $100 off, plus Apple’s AirPods hit an all-time low, and previous-generation iPad Pro is on sale. Head below for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple Watch Series 5 up to $100 off Make sure to put your savings towards good use and pick up an extra Apple Watch band. There are plenty of options out there, which you can find in our roundup starting at $5....