By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Typing on an iPad, iPhone, or other low-travel surface like a MacBook Pro keyboard could be made easier and more comfortable, with Apple suggesting that smart gloves could squeeze the finger slightly to change the sensation.Typing on a touchscreen has become a common fixture of modern-day computing. While everyone is used to tapping away at a solid flat surface, the tactile benefits of using a normal keyboard with mechanical keys is clearly missing from the software-based keyboards.A flat surface does not provide any gradual resistance to a finger press, unlike typing on a keyboard. Apple believes that, due to the abrupt halting of fingers on contact with a display surface could lead to “jarring and fatiguing” finger impacts, which makes it uncomfortable to type on a tablet or phone display for long periods of time. …
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Apple has shared a new video that explains how its new Crash Detection feature can detect serious car crashes and alert emergency responders automatically.The feature relies on the high dynamic range gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, barometer, and microphone. Using the data provided, the device then uses complex algorithms to detect when a serious car crash has occurred.Crash Detection works on the …
By news@appleinsider.com (Andrew Orr) An app called Diffusion Bee lets users run the Stable Diffusion machine learning model locally on their Apple Silicon …
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Safari 16.0 has been released for Apple’s ecosystem, with the latest version of the browser for iOS 16 now able to open AVIF images ahead of similar support in macOS Ventura and iPadOS.Announced following Monday’s release of …