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The Record-and-Share Edition Thursday, March 22, 2018

A Brief History Of Movies Shot With Phones, by Max Covill, Film School Rejects

As more Hollywood directors adopt the format into feature films, more attention and accessories will be made to further the abilities of our phones. Tangerine and Unsane weren’t made with the default camera, but with tools that brought more flexibility to the platform. In Hollywood, the message has been about inclusion and hearing stories from those individuals who don’t get to tell their stories. As technology continues to flourish, it is becoming more accessible than ever to record and share those stories. Don’t hesitate any longer. Pick up your phone and share your story, there are people who want to see it.

Peer-reviewed Study Shows Cardiogram And Apple Watch Can Accurately Determine Atrial Fibrillation, by Danny Crichton, TechCrunch

One of the major aspects of the study that Cardiogram is highlighting is that their deep learning model, named DeepHeart, required significantly less training data than comparable models targeting medical conditions. Only 6,338 electrocardiograms (ECGs) were required to build the model, which was 8 layers. This is an important development, since ECGs are both expensive and time consuming to perform at scale.

Mobile Gaming Is Having A Moment, And Apple Has The Reins, by Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

But the absolute biggest story of the event wasn’t even at the event. It was the launch of Fortnite and, shortly thereafter, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on mobile devices. Specifically, both were launched on iOS and PUBG hit Android simultaneously.

The launch of Fortnite, especially, resonates across the larger gaming spectrum in several unique ways. It’s the full and complete game as present on consoles, it’s iOS-first and it supports cross-platform play with console and PC players.

Siri Privacy Bug Lets It Read Out Most Hidden Message Content On A Locked iPhone, by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

A Mac Magazine reader discovered that Siri will read the content of most messages even though the content is hidden on the display. The one exception is Apple’s own Messages app, where Siri will read them only if the phone is unlocked.

Stuff

The Only App You Need For Work-Life Productivity, by David Pierce, Wall Street Journal

Notion combines the features of a note-taking app, a task-management app and a spreadsheet tool the way that Steve Jobs combined an iPod, a cellphone and a web browser into the iPhone: All these work tools together create something more than its parts.

Corel Releases CorelCAD Mobile For iPhone And iPad, by Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider

With a subscription, the full version of CorelCAD Mobile unlocks its full set of editing features with 2D drawing tools, advanced annotation capabilities and support for 3D model viewing.

Develop

Apple Is An Exception To Nearly Every Rule, by Haje Jan Kamps, TechCrunch

Design, logistics, packaging — whenever Apple is the example of one way of doing something, try to find two more examples. If you can’t find any, that’s a pretty good indicator that it’s not a hill worth dying on: Apple lives in one world, the rest of us live in another.

By all means, keep an eye on Apple and the way the company pushes the envelope. But bear in mind that, for now, the company is a very different beast than your startup in almost every possible way.

Notes

Designed In California, Made In China: How The iPhone Skews U.S. Trade Deficit, by Adam Jourdan, Reuters

The iPhone’s contribution to U.S. trade deficits is almost certain to have grown sharply alongside higher retail prices and shipments.

But the manufacturing value does not include the intellectual property value Apple adds through engineering and design work done in its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., as well as margins taken by distributors.