Apple’s next AirPods Pro could offer heart rate and temperature monitoring

Apple is engaged on the following technology of AirPods Professional, they usually could have , in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman – though it’s a rumor we heard earlier than, again

The corporate has reportedly began testing options like temperature sensing and coronary heart fee monitoring for the earbuds. Apple has discovered that the Apple Watch nonetheless does the latter higher, however the AirPods “aren’t terribly far off” of their readings.

The corporate could have additionally revived its concept of placing cameras into AirPods, a rumor we’ve heard a couple of instances during the last 12 months. Nevertheless it’ll nonetheless in all probability be years earlier than any camera-equipped AirPods seem.

– Mat Smith

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Broccoli was quoted telling a few of her buddies that the individuals who run Amazon’s media empire are “f—ing idiots.” When Amazon bought MGM, executives began considering of the way to increase the Bond movie franchise to different mediums like a Moneypenny spinoff sequence for Prime Video or a separate spy movie or TV present within the Bond universe. Broccoli refused to let any of those initiatives go ahead. She additionally took umbrage with Amazon leisure govt Jennifer Salke’s use of the phrase “content material” to explain new James Bond initiatives. (I love that.)

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