Definitely worth watching. Highlights (via Recode.net) include:
Continue reading “Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends, 2018 Version”
More than two-thirds of the customers of financial services will be digital-only users in just 3 years.
Source: 2017 CGN Research & Advisory Group
I ran across a good article at Macrumors that does a great job of explaining the reasons behind the recent iOS slowdowns on older hardware. If you’re experiencing slowdowns, this is definitely worth a read. I have high hopes that a battery replacement will breath new life into my aging iPhone 6 Plus. Since upgrading to iOS 11, I have experienced all of the symptoms outlined in Apple’s iPhone and Battery Performance support document:
In cases that require more extreme forms of this power management, the user may notice effects such as:
– Longer app launch times
– Lower frame rates while scrolling
– Backlight dimming (which can be overridden in Control Center)
– Lower speaker volume by up to -3dB
– Gradual frame rate reductions in some apps
– During the most extreme cases, the camera flash will be disabled as visible in the camera UI
– Apps refreshing in background may require reloading upon launch
To get your battery replaced, visit the Contact Apple Support page, click on See Your Products, sign in to your Apple ID account, select which iPhone, and click on Battery, Power, and Charging and then Battery Replacement.
After completing the above steps, you should have options available to you to take your iPhone to an Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider, mail the device to an Apple Repair Center, or both.
For more details, see the full article at Macrumors.
John Hancock has announced that new and existing members of its Vitality life insurance program can receive an Apple Watch Series 3 with GPS only for an initial payment of just $25 plus tax. Over the next two years, monthly payments are based on the number of workouts completed.
By connecting the Vitality Today app to Apple’s Health app and confirming sharing of data, customers can earn Vitality Points for Light, Standard, and Advanced Workouts in the Workout app. Customers can share steps measured by their iPhone or Apple Watch, as well as active calories from the Apple Watch. Vitality members must earn at least 500 fitness-related Vitality Points per month over two years to avoid owing any of the installments.
An innovative life insurance solution that rewards healthy living!
I use thumbnails in Preview on Mac OS to merge PDFs a lot. Dragging thumbs from the sidebar of one PDF to another is a quick and easy way to merge multiple PDFs. It has always annoyed me that there is no longer an easy way to show the sidebar by default in Mac OS X Sierra. After a little Googling, I found an easy way to fix this by editing the plist file for Preview.
PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening” to false<key>PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening</key><false/>UPDATE FOR HIGH SIERRA:
Twitter user @ZiadFazel wrote in with an update for Preview in Mac OS X High Sierra.
<key>PVSidebarViewModeForNewDocuments</key><integer>0</integer><integer>0</integer> to <integer>1</integer>Thanks, Ziad!I was reading an interesting article about the changes occurring in the banking industry which stated that banking will have to completely change its vision of the business: the important thing will no longer be products or distribution channels, but the customer experience.
The problem is not what the branch offices look like, but the behavior of the consumer: bankers should be aware that customers are not going to return to the practice of making frequent visits to bank offices unless we take away their mobile phones. And that’s not going to happen. Banks need to view the digital customer experience as an asset akin to a physical branch and give it the appropriate funding, attention, and support it deserves. For most customers, it will be their first, and in many cases – only, interaction with the brand. When was the last time you went to a branch to do your banking?
The increasing importance of customer experience holds true, to varying degrees, for all industries. Customer experience today is what branding was for the last five decades.
According to the results of a study* conducted by the University of California, San Francisco and the app, Cardiogram, Apple Watch can detect the most common abnormal heart rhythm with 97% accuracy.
From TechCrunch:
The study involved 6,158 participants recruited through the Cardiogram app on Apple Watch. Most of the participants in the UCSF Health eHeart study had normal EKG readings. However, 200 of them had been diagnosed with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heartbeat). Engineers then trained a deep neural network to identify these abnormal heart rhythms from Apple Watch heart rate data.
Each year, more than 100,000 strokes are caused by an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation – the most common abnormal heart rhythm responsible for 1 in 4 strokes. It’s pretty amazing to think that soon there will be technology available on our wrists that can identify and warn us of abnormal heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation.
*I’m proud to have participated in the Heart eHealth study and am currently participating in the mRhythm study, the goal of which is to compare the heart rhythms gathered by the FDA-approved AliveCor monitor against those from the Cardiogram App/Apple Watch to assess its validity and accuracy in detecting arrhythmias.
via TechCrunch
New medical research from the UT Southwestern Medical Center and Northern Arizona University shows that robots equipped with web-enabled cameras and telehealth are as effective as a trained medical professional or athletic trainer in diagnosing when a young athlete has suffered a concussion. Using telehealth and robots, one person could cover numerous schools. A physician who is on-call virtually could be anywhere and available as soon as a consult is needed, particularly in high school sports where not every team and event has a trainer or other medical professional on hand.
A new study from the United States Government Accountability Office shows that relatively few patients electronically access their health information when offered the ability to do so. In 2015, the latest year for which full data is available, only 15% of hospital patients accessed their data through a hospital digital portal and only 30% of patients used a portal provided by their doctor’s office. Patients cited limitations such as the inability to aggregate their health information from multiple sources into a single record.
Since 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has invested over $35 billion in health information technology, including efforts to enhance patient access to and use of electronic health information.
The full study is available on the US GOA website.
We are on the precipice of a massive paradigm shift in personal transportation. Tesla Autopilot will forever change personal transportation by providing “full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver”.
“All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go. If you don’t say anything, the car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination or just home if nothing is on the calendar. Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigate urban streets (even without lane markings), manage complex intersections with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts, and handle densely packed freeways with cars moving at high speed. When you arrive at your destination, simply step out at the entrance and your car will enter park seek mode, automatically search for a spot and park itself. A tap on your phone summons it back to you.”
The technology in the Tesla is incredible: eight surround cameras provide 360 degrees of visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range. Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system. A forward-facing radar with enhanced processing provides additional data about the world on a redundant wavelength that is able to see through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the car ahead.
To make sense of all of this data, a new onboard computer with over 40 times the computing power of the previous generation runs the new Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar and radar processing software. Together, this system provides a view of the world that a driver alone cannot access, seeing in every direction simultaneously, and on wavelengths that go far beyond the human senses.