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Hands on with HomePod mini's temperature and humidity sensors
I’m in the UK and despite my iPhone and HomePod minis all running the latest 16.3 beta there is no sign of temperature or humidity. So maybe this is currently a US only feature?
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Apple seeds fourth developer betas of iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2, tvOS 15.2, and watchOS 8.3
Public beta now available.
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NHS admits contact tracing app won't work on older iPhones
Isn’t there a fundamental flaw in all these apps? I can be inches away from someone who is Covid-19 positive but the other side of a wall, a window, etc. but Bluetooth will still “see” their device. But I will not exposed to any risk at all - so there is a significant risk of a large number of false positives.
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France, UK to test contact tracing apps without Apple and Google technology
Many forums I am active on have members who say they do not trust the U.K. NHS to keep a centralised database secure, so will NOT be downloading the NHS app unless and until it switches to the decentralised Apple/Google model.
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Steve Jobs wanted ultra-optimized US manufacturing, Apple vets say
The kack of a manufacturing culture isn’ just a US thing. When I left university in 1978 in the UK it was easy to get a job in electronics manufacturing but gradually over my 40+ year working life companies failed to keep up investment in people and equipment so economics dictated that manufacturing moved to countries with lots of cheap labour. Result? - skilled engineers unable to get a job that paid a decent salary so they left engineering to join service industries.
