News on the sidelines the week of March 21-28

Sometimes news of medium importance appears that does not deserve to be devoted to an entire article, so we present a weekly compiled article to make the reader aware of various news and make sure that when he follows us, he will not miss anything.

Apple doing hourly ECG feature in Europe and Hong Kong

In a pleasant surprise to millions of Apple Watch users, the fourth generation came the Watch OS 5.2 update to activate the ECG feature in the watch for European and Hong Kong citizens. In the past, Apple had made the feature exclusive to the American user and anyone who would transfer his country to America, and then prevented the last point that it had become necessary to be in America already. But with the hourly update released a few days ago, with the number 5.2, it has also become available to those in Europe or Hong Kong.

Apple apologizes to some Mac users

Apple has published an official apology to some Mac customers who are facing an issue with the third generation keyboard. There have been widespread complaints about the famous Apple keyboard with Butterfly, and the iFixit professionals explained that the reason is dust particles that fill the void below the "wings of the button" and thus lead to a sound and sometimes the button malfunction. Then Apple resorted to the new generation of it for its tricks, which is to add silicone around the button to prevent the arrival of dust. Indeed, complaints disappeared, but recently they appeared small, prompting Apple to publish a statement in the WSJ newspaper saying, “We are aware that there are a small number of users facing problems with the third generation of Butterfly Keyboard We are sorry; The vast majority of Mac users are happy with the new keyboard. If you are facing a problem, please contact Apple. If the company clarifies what it will do and will the reform be done or what, but this was Apple's statement.

Huawei unveils the P30 family

Huawei unveiled its latest flagship device, the P30 phone, which came in three versions. The first is called Lite, which is a mid-range phone. As for the basic categories, P30 and P30 Pro, it comes with a number of common features, such as the Kirin 980 processor, providing the same screen quality as 1080 * 2340 (with different screen size), HDR10 support, and a storage capacity of 512 GB in the Pro version and 256 in The traditional version. The audio port has been removed from the Pro version, providing fast charging of 40W in the Pro and 22.5W in the conventional version. The two phones come with a 32 mega f / 2.0 front camera.

But the most important thing in the phone and the distinctive point of the Pro is a 40 mega f / 1.6 and 20 mega f / 2.2 quad camera, a third 8 mega f / 3.4 and a fourth 3D. But the third camera is not traditional, as it provides 5x optical zoom in addition to the traditional automatic zoom. Huawei reviewed the camera to compare it with the S10 + and iPhone XS Max, and the results were impressive, as well as a number of experiences from testing it as well.

Of course, the phone swept all devices in the DxOMark classification, where it got 112 points and thus became in first place, followed by the Huawei P20 Pro, Mate 20 Pro and Samsung S10 +. As for the front camera, it did not achieve the same great results, as it came with 89 points and ranked fourth.

Apple releases new betas for developers

Yesterday, Apple released new betas for developers as follows:

IOS 12.3, which came mainly to add the TV App that Apple talked about at the conference.

TvOS 12.3 TV system, which also came to add the TV App and support compatibility with iPhone in this feature.

◉ Apple TV 7.3 and also came to support the same previous feature, the TV App.

◉ Mac OS 10.14.5 and no new features were revealed in the system.

Strangely, Apple didn't release the update 5.3 for the hour

A judge recommends preventing Apple from selling the iPhone in America

An administrative judge in the US Trade Commission named MaryJoan McNamara said that by studying the 3 patents in which Qualcomm accuses Apple, he found that Apple is innocent of violating 2 of these patents. As for the third patent, Apple is already accused and has deliberately violated it and used stolen technologies. The judge said that Patent No. 8063674 related to managing and controlling the energy actually used by Apple to improve the battery performance of the iPhone. The judge said that the appropriate punishment in this matter is to prevent the sale of iPhones that violate this patent. It is worth noting that the judge is not the decisive factor in the ruling because it is the administrative judge responsible for studying patents and submitting a recommendation and report to another committee of judges for review, and then they send it to the US President to issue a decision to prevent the sale. For its part, Qualcomm praised the judge's decision to convict Apple and request a ban on selling devices.

Samsung publishes a test video of the Fold phone

After several reports, news and rumors that the Samsung Fold phone will be damaged due to the frequent folding and use, Samsung has published a video of the folding test that it has done for the devices and stated that its device can withstand approximately 200 thousand fold times or 5 years of use if you open your device 100 times a day.

A Samsung phone will be available in the market at a price of $ 1980 on April 26th. Watch the video:

Will Apple reveal AirPower within days?

Update: The project has been canceled - see this link-.

New York Times chief warns companies against Apple's news service

The CEO of The New York Times, Mark Thompson, warned companies against subscribing with Apple to the new Apple New + service, which enables you to follow hundreds of magazines at the same time with a unified subscription. Mark said in his statement that companies should think more than once before relying on a third party who is responsible for publishing their content, as over time they depend on it and the matter becomes more difficult.

Update the Telegram application to delete the conversations from both parties

Telegram, which is the second most popular chat application after WhatsApp, introduced a new version and a major update that was most important to it (not all the features, but some of it):

◉ The ability to delete any message sent or received from the devices of the two parties. The old feature, which was introduced two years ago, used to allow you to delete your messages from the device of the other party UnSend, but now you can delete conversations completely, even from the devices of the other party.

◉ More privacy in forwarding messages so that you can hide the name of the original message sender for you.

◉ Add search option in application settings.

◉ Improve and develop the option to search for emojis and GIFs

VoiceOver and TalkBack support

◉ Control who can see your profile picture.

◉ Add the ability to view emoji without having to wait for it to fully download.

Apple publishes the video of the last conference on YouTube

Apple posted the video of the previous conference on its YouTube channel for those who want to watch it; The duration of the conference is nearly two hours. Usually, after a few weeks, Apple will delete the conference videos.

Miscellaneous news

◉ Apple announced the addition of more countries in the search ads store advertisements, and the feature became available in 46 countries, including Arab countries, which are "Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the Emirates, Jordan, Lebanon and Oman."

◉ Xiaomi has published a teaser video for its foldable phone, and it appears that it is foldable in the duo. Watch the quick video:

◉ Apple announced the introduction of Instant Transfer of funds via Apple Pay as an alternative to sending money by credit cards.

◉ Reports indicated that Apple has acquired an Italian start-up called Stamplay, which specializes in cloud services for developers and helps them by providing services to them.

◉ Leaks revealed that Apple intends to unveil the first Beats headphone, in cooperation with it, and it works with the same processor that Apple developed in the second generation of AirPods. Which reinforced rumors that iOS 12.2, coding analysts have revealed that there is a Siri headphone called Powerbeats.

◉ Apple announced the addition of more countries in the Apple Pay service, namely Austria, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Greece and Romania.

◉ Some Apple stores in Australia, the Netherlands and other countries began to indicate that Apple is updating the walls to become a video wall, meaning that it displays content and not a traditional wall.

◉ The new Apple credit card will be activated by iPhone directly.

This is not all the news on the sidelines, but we came to you with the most important of them, and it is not necessary for a non-specialist to occupy himself with all the wandering and incoming, there are more important things you do in your life, so do not make devices distract you or distract you from your life and your duties, and know that technology is there to make life easier And she helps you, and if she robbed you of your life and preoccupied you, then there is no need for her

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