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The Off-Label Edition Saturday, June 29, 2024

Apple Watch Is Becoming Doctors’ Favorite Medical Device, by Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal

Doctors are using the Apple Watch as part of how they diagnose and help their patients manage disease—whether or not it’s been specifically approved for such applications by the Food and Drug Administration or other regulatory bodies.

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So many off-label uses for the Apple Watch are already possible because the device continuously gathers activity and heart-rate data. It can perform an electrocardiogram when a user initiates that process. All this data can then be exported and analyzed without Apple or anyone else intervening.

Compared with previous methods of studying patients, the continuous monitoring made possible by the Apple Watch generates an avalanche of potentially useful data, says Dr. Corinna Zygourakis, a neurosurgeon who is conducting a study in how the watch can be used to monitor people after spinal surgery.

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Lightroom Classic 13.4, by Agen Schmitz, TidBITS

Adobe has issued Lightroom Classic 13.4, updating the desktop-focused photo cataloging and editing app with support for new cameras and lenses (including the front and back cameras of the recently released iPad Air and iPad Pro).

This App Lets You Make Custom Apple Music Playlist Covers, by Pranay Parab, Lifehacker

When you make playlists in Apple Music, the service lets you use a custom cover. You can either choose a photo from your library or pick one of the covers it generates. I tend to pick the latter, but over the past few months, I've become bored with Apple's playlist cover options—choosing from the same six templates gets boring after a certain point. That's when I discovered Denim, an app that lets you make custom Apple Music playlist covers.

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Highlighting The Latest Apple Developer Academy Graduating Class, by Michigan State University

The Michigan State University Apple Developer Academy in Detroit celebrated its third graduating cohort after students completed a 10-month program where they received app development training, critical business skills and preparation for careers in the growing app economy.

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Microsoft’s AI Boss Thinks It’s Perfectly OK To Steal Content If It’s On The Open Web, by Sean Hollister, The Verge

Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman incorrectly believes that the moment you publish anything on the open web, it becomes “freeware” that anyone can freely copy and use.

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I find it... well, interesting, that proponents of EU's DMA are quick to label Apple as anti-competitive, when the whole idea of the DMA is to limit the types of mobile phones one can exist in the EU.

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