CardioBot is a popular and powerful cardio and activity tracker for the iPhone and Apple Watch. As we’ve covered over the years, CardioBot makes it easy to visualize your heart rate and other data to discover trends. Now, the app is expanding with support for tracking blood and pulse pressure for the first time.
Some details on blood and pulse pressure, courtesy of the Mayo Clinic:
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Along with a host of new accessibility features announced today, iOS is set to gain a new Background Sounds feature to help reduce distractions and promote focus, calm, and rest.
Backgrounds Sounds will arrive sometime “later this year” with six options: balanced…
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has now taken the stand and is testifying in the company’s ongoing legal battle with Epic. Apple has said that Federighi’s testimony will focus heavily on security, highlighting the lengths to…
Earlier today, Apple unveiled a host of new accessibility features coming to iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS later this year. In the screenshots shown off in Apple’s press release, we can see what appears to be the Settings app with inset cells and a navigation bar that’s merged with the background. While both of these things are already possible to do in iOS 14, it looks like we might be getting a…
A report by the Post-IDFA Alliance shows that two weeks after the release of iOS 14.5, advertisers have started spending more on the Android platform. This alliance combines data provided by Liftoff, AdColony, Fyber, Singular, and Vungle. This is the first report about the…
Surprisingly, Apple has just released the first iOS 14.7 beta to developers even before iOS 14.6 became available to the public. Apple has also released watchOS 7.6 beta and tvOS 14.7 beta. We don’t yet know what’s new in today’s updates.
The iOS 14.6 RC was released…
Apple today introduced the first beta of iOS 14.7 to developers, and while this update doesn’t seem to bring any significant changes, it does bring a new feature for HomePod users. With this new version of iOS, users will be able to set timers on the HomePod using the Home app on the iPhone, iPad, and possibly the Mac as well.
Setting timers on the HomePod is definitely not something new, and…
If you’ve ever used an iPhone, you’re probably familiar with how iOS adds homescreen icons for apps before they’ve been fully installed, unlike Android, which adds the icon after installation is complete. Now, though, Google appears to be testing a copy of Apple’s…
Hisense is ‘happy’ with standard Android TV; 2021 models won’t get Google TV anytime soon
May 20, 2021
Android TV has seen hefty growth over the past few years, recently with a big boost in the United States. Helping to lead that charge is Android TV built into smart TVs. As Google TV takes over, we’re still waiting to find out who will and won’t adopt it. As far as…
Just last week, Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP) was rebranded ahead of the first devices launching later this year. Google, at I/O 2021, announced support for Matter on Android and Google Nest devices.
Matter provides one standard so that all smart home devices can support assistants from Google, Amazon, and Apple. The protocol runs on Ethernet (802.3), Wi-Fi (802.11), and Thread…
