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  • Apple releases iOS 14.3, iPadOS 14.3 updates

    On Monday afternoon, Apple released its iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3 updates, offering access to its new Fitness+ service.

    The updates also offer the following fixes and changes:

    Fitness+: This is is Apple’s $9.99/month service that brings personalized workout videos, trainers, and exercise recommendations. Video workouts added each week in ten popular workout types: High Intensity Interval Training, Indoor Cycling, Yoga, Core, Strength, Dance, Rowing, Treadmill Walking, Treadmill Running, and Mindful Cooldown. Playlists curated by Fitness+ trainers will be added to complement your workout. The Fitness+ subscription is available in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States

    AirPods Max support: This allows users to link a pair of AirPods Max headphone as quickly as other members of the AirPods product line. These over-the-ear headphones bring high fidelity audio, active noise cancellation, transparency mode, adaptive EQ, and spatial audio.

    Apple ProRAW support: This offers support for ProRAW, a special RAW format that adds Apple’s computational photography it performs with its machine learning. This is great for recovering highlights and shadows in images. A new option to record video at 25 FPS is also a feature of iOS 14.3.

    Privacy Information Label support: This supports Privacy Information Labels that developers are now required to add to their programs in the App Store. This feature lets people know what kind of data will be collected and if it will be used for advertising purposes.

    Other minor features include:

    • App Clips
    • An all-new Apple TV+ tab
    • Ability to indicate pregnancy, lactation, or contraceptive use in Cycle Tracking in the Health app
    • Air quality data is now available in Weather, Maps, and Siri for locations in China mainland
    • Ecosia search engine option in Safari

    As always, you can snag the update by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

    If you’ve tried the iOS 14.3 and/or updates and have any feedback to offer, please let us know about your experience in the comments.

    Via The Mac Observer

  • WWDC: Apple announces watchOS 5, highlights changes to Health, Fitness, Siri, Communications features

    Over at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced watchOS 5, complete with new health, fitness, and communications features. The company has allowed users to set 7 day Activity Challenges with friends and earn custom achievement medals as well as added support for yoga and hiking in the Workout app as well as a method to automatically detect what workout you are doing without having to initiate it.

    The company is also introducing a new Walkie-Talkie app that works on WiFi or LTE, support for Podcasts streaming, rich HTML email content, a customizable Control Center, and more.

    Over in the Workout app, you can now set a target pace and get alerts if you fall behind. The app can also sense if you’ve begun a workout and had to interrupt it, assigning you a retroactive credit if need be.

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  • Continuation patent points to Apple’s renewed interest in virtual keyboard technology for upcoming products

    It looks like Apple is continuing its development work regarding a virtual keyboard technology.

    The company, which has filed for patents for virtual keyboards on MacBook notebooks as far back as 2009, has recently had a continuation patent application published today shows that the company is still exploring the idea.

    The virtual keyboard made headlines when it launched on the iPhone in 2007 and became a notable feature in the late-2016 MacBook Pro via the Touch Bar.

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  • Zenrez allows last-minute Yoga, Pilates, Barre, TRX, and fitness class booking

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    If you’re looking to work out, this could be interesting.

    Zenrez Corporation has released Zenrez, an iOS app that helps you book last-minute classes at your favorite yoga, pilates, barre, and fitness studios. Users pay per class with no long-term memberships or fees and come 9 PM each night, studios affiliated with the app release a limited number of last-minute offers available for booking.

    Zenrez is currently available in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, Seattle, and Pittsburgh, PA and offers access to the following studios:

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  • Intel launches Broadwell Core M processor, chip could find its way into rumored 12-inch MacBook Air notebooks

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    Intel’s next generation of processors won’t ship until early 2015, but there’s some interesting news on the processor that could wind up in the 12-inch MacBook Pro notebook.

    Per MacRumors, the company began shipping some ultra low-power Broadwell chips known as Core M a couple of months ago. These chips are designed to run at just 4.5 watts and are intended for next-generation fanless PCs and tablets, fitting perfectly with circulating rumors of a thinner, fanless 12-inch MacBook Air, potentially with a Retina display.

    The first batch of Core M chips launched in early September consisted of the 5Y10/5Y10a running at a base frequency of 800 MHz with a maximum of 2 GHz turbo, along with the more powerful 5Y70 running at 1.1 GHz with a max turbo of 2.6 GHz. Intel now appears to have quietly added several new processor options to the Core M family. Internal roadmaps had targeted an early 2015 launch for these chips, but Intel’s chip database shows the new chips as having launched this quarter.

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