iphone
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False Emergency Calls Skyrocket During a Festival as the iPhone Mistakes Dancing for Car Crashes
There’s bound to be a few extra emergency calls when 80,000 people descend upon your city for a weekend music and arts festival, but according to authorities in Coffee County, Tennessee, the iPhone 14’s automatic crash detection was responsible for a spike in false 911 calls at Bonnaroo as it mistook revelers’ enthusiastic dancing for…
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Researchers Created a Simple App That Turns Your Smartphone Screen Into an Accurate Thermometer
Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the University of Washington claim they’ve come up with a way to turn an off-the-shelf smartphone into exactly that–with nothing but a new app. They’re calling it FeverPhone.
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How to Lock Your iPhone From Your Apple Watch If Someone Snatches Your Phone
If you own an Apple Watch, you can set up an automation that will help lock your iPhone as soon as you lose it.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch’s Irregular Heartbeat Monitoring Feature Is Coming This Winter
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch will soon ask users to check if something more than newfound love is sending their heart a-fluttering. The watch is joining other wearables from the likes of Google and Apple that let users track if they experience any periods of irregular heart rhythm.