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  • Apple Watch may be able to detect coronavirus infection days before tests can

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    Benderclb said:
    And how do users selftest? What do we look for in Cardiogram? And how do we determine our baseline?
    Heart Rate Variability is recorded in the Breath app. I think the gist is that focused breathing decreases the heart rate, so you get a better sample of beat variations. 

    HRV is considered one of the best indicators of overall physical fitness. Like, an athlete can go from zero to sixty (figuratively) at a snap; that requires a heart that can kick into gear (and cool off) fast. 

    You can see your HRV in the iPhone Health app under "heart." Average HRV is very age dependent, a teenager will have an HRV approaching 100, middle age folk in the fifties.

    As for how this could be productized… Apple probably couldn't market any feature as "early covid detection," but they could perhaps put in a notification that reads "abnormal HRV, talk to your doctor" without going through too many FDA hoops. I think the potential for false positives might be pretty high, though.
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  • Docker reveals why its virtual machine isn't yet on Apple Silicon M1

    Eric_WVGGEric_WVGG
    Even worse — Homebrew's package support is very, very spotty. This makes M1 Macs a deal-breaker for any serious web or backend developer until at least next summer.
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  • What the Apple Silicon M1 means for the future of Apple's Macs

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    “Instead [... of just an iPad A14]… an entirely new chip explicitly optimized for the Mac. And it's more than just a chip. As a ‘System on a Chip’...”

    I don’t think this article makes the case that there is anything “entirely new” about the M1 at all. How is it any more or less than an A14 (also a SOC) with eight cores instead of six, and an eight (or seven) core GPU? Thunderbolt, maybe?

    Regarding eGPUs... if support was coming, there would need to be drivers, and so far there isn’t even a hint of the existence of ARM ATI drivers in Big Sur. 

    i think Apple showed their hand with the Mac Pro “Afterburner” card. What’s that old aphorism, “people don’t want a drill, they want a hole”? Instead of support for “Radeon cards,” Apple is thinking about what people actually want to accomplish with them, and developing a product around that. Which kinda sucks IMO, I don’t think Apple can second-guess the needs of all buyers like that, and it’s an expensive path for consumers...
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  • Apple unveils new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 for $1299

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    cloudguy said:
    Eric_WVGG said:

    I personally wouldn't go near an Intel Mac today, and advise anyone to try to hold out, but buying one is neither crazy or stupid.
    So buying one is crazy or stupid for you but not for everyone else? How do you figure? Especially since they still won't exactly be cheap if you know what I mean.
    Because I know that my needs aren't the same as everyone else’s. 
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  • macOS 11.0.1 beta files hint at three unreleased Macs

    Eric_WVGGEric_WVGG
    why on earth would they release a high-performance ARM 24" iMac when all anyone buys are 27" models*? The only way this makes a lick of sense is if they've got something new like the Surface Studio planned, I don't buy it.

    my bet:
    Mac Mini
    12" MacBook
    12" MacBook with cellular

    * yes, I know, they sell a lot of 24"s to schools
    williamlondon