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  • iPhone alarms could automatically change to give users a full night's sleep

    williamh said:
    mike1 said:
    A much better idea was an app I saw (forgot the name) that monitored your sleep cycles throughout the night and adjusted your alarm time to wake you up during the lightest period of the cycle rather than during the REM portion. At most it adjusted your wake time by 10 minutes or so. And I believe it could be told to wake you on the cycle before your programmed wake time, never after.
    The app is called Sleep Cycle.  I've been using it for a couple of years now but not using that feature.  Using either motion sensors or the microphone, the app determines (pretty well) where you are in your sleep cycle.  You can have it wake you up within a range of time at a light period of your sleep cycle (as Mike said).  I'd prefer to get up at a particular time and monitor my sleep cycle so I turned that off.  The app has many nice features that I won't detail. I'll just mention that I like how snooze works and I like how the volume of the wake music or sound kind of gradually increases in volume so you don't have a heart attack.
    Thanks William and Mike. Definitely going to look this up.
    watto_cobra
  • iPhone XR production cuts suspected based on questionably weak demand, component quality i...

    Not surprised.
    Know what would have had demand through the roof? ; A 4.5" screen inside a case the size of an iPhone 5.
    freethinking
  • Analysts change tune, now say $1,000 Huawei Mate 20 Androids are a bargain

    KidAKidB said:
    maestro64 said:
    Wow this site is really obsessed over what the media says about Apple competitors. Why do you care?
    Because it is DED and it always a good thing to call out the fake media and point out their obvious mistake. If this is not done then people walk around thinking these people know what they are talking about.

    Just more evidence you should not trust most things you may read.

    And trusting DED is even more evidence that you should not trust most things you read. He spins a narrative based around twisting facts to ensure that Apple always comes out on top. Basically if he writes a hit piece against a competitor, you can be sure that the competitor is doing something right because it has DED afraid for Apple.
    You're right.
    For the competition; copying Apple is the right thing to do.
    watto_cobra
  • Saudi journalist used Apple Watch to record own interrogation and execution, report says [...

    lenn said:
    If CNN reported that water is wet I wouldn't believe them. CNN like most other American "news" outlets are in business to make money and create controversy so more people will watch them and their advertisers content. The Washington Post is the same.


    This is, of course, complete horseshit. 
    Unnecessarily dismissive and does very little to forward your argument.

    No offense, of course. :)
    Really?
    If that's how you describe his comment; then how would you describe the original comment that he was replying to?
    GeorgeBMacfastasleep
  • Security researcher cited in Bloomberg's China spy chip investigation casts doubt on story...


    tzeshan said:
    Bloomberg fabricated the story. It said nearly 30 companies were reportedly impacted by the breach. This is the confession that Bloomberg fabricated the story. Because if 30 companies were impacted, the chip is easily detected. Otherwise how would it know 30 companies were impacted? I am still marveled why Bloomberg was not able to secure a single affected server if so many companies were affected. 
    Exactly.
    magman1979watto_cobra